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

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

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.

The mountains of Laos are in the background and Oakes and a Forward Observer (FO) are directing artillery fire at suspected enemy concentration points along the Laotian border. This location is as far north and as far west as someone could go in…