Armored vehicles preparing for a convoy from FOB Q-West.

Booby-trapped U.S. 105 mm howitzer round that Oakes stepped on. The round failed to detonate because the dirt around it gave way.

Captured Iraqi armor just outside the wire of FOB Diamondback.

Captured Iraqi armor sitting at FOB Morez.

City of Mosul and Mosul Air Base from the air. The airfield is in the middle ground with the city in the background.

Civilians houses overlooking FOB Diamondback in Mosul.

Commercial airliner that carried Oakes and the other men to Kuwait.

Constructing a perimeter of rails around the motor pool at the HHD 1225th Battalion HQ.

Convoy traveling down MSR Tampa. On-coming traffic has stopped to permit the convoy to go. Note that the convoy travels down the center of the road to avoid IEDs on the edge of the road.

Corpsman attending to wounded soldier who had tripped a booby-trapped hand grenade in the 3/27th Marine's area.

Corpsman Kirkpatrick and Lt. O'Rourke of 3rd Platoon, B Company 1/27 May 1968 before Operation Allen Brook.

Crash S.F. C-130 at FOB Q-West. In the foreground is the hole that the plane hit upon land with debris from the plane still in the hole.