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

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

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

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

Oakes and LCPL Lamphere with the platoon radios just before Oakes began working with the company. Lamphere was the man Oakes chose to replace him as platoon radioman. The day after this picture, Lamphere tripped a bobby-trapped hand grenade that took…

Men watching the results of the bombing of an enemy position in the far tree line. Operation Allen Brook.

LZ Gurkha artillery emplacement of 105 mm howitzers.

White object in the center-right of the photo is a live 81 mm illumination round that went through Oakes' poncho and landed between his head and the Gunnery Sgt's head during a night firing in a rain storm.

Engineers placing C-4 around the bobby-trapped U.S. 105 mm howitzer round that Oakes stepped on.

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