Oakes at Camp Hansen, Okinawa on his way home from Vietnam, April 1969.

Oakes preparing to go on a night patrol in March / April 1968 from Camp Dong Son.

Oakes resting after going from Camp Doung Son to a platoon patrol base in August 1968. Oakes had collapsed from heat exhaustion due to the intense heat.

Oakes spent the last 30 days in county as the NCOIC in charge of the transit tent of B Co 1/4 Marines Dong Ha (rear area).

Oakes standing in front of a Blackhawk helicopter.

Oakes' superiors and Iraqi commanding general with assistant at a dinner at FOB Q-West in September 2005

Operation Allen Brook. The patrol is receiving automatic weapons fire from the tree line in the background.

Operation Allen Brook. F-4 Phantom releasing ordanace on an enemy position firing upon Oakes' unit

Part of the Samarra bypass, a wall built around a hostile Iraqi town for protection of the convoys.

Patrol during Operation Allen Brook. Right after Oakes took the picture, North Vietnamese machine guns began firing from the opposite bank.

Pedicab in the city of Da Nang. Taken after Oakes had been released from the hospital and is on his way back to his unit.

Platoon ordnance load for a single patrol. Consists of: machine gun ammo, hand grenades, M-16 ammo, M-79 ammo, smoke grenades, LAWs (Light Anti-Tank Weapons), and claymore mines.