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…

Oakes aboard the hospital ship U.S.S. Repose in November 1968 after he contracted dysentery in the Khe Sanh Valley.

Mountains West of Camp Doung Son perimeter. March / April 1968.

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

Medevacing a soldier wounded in the leg during an firefight.

LZ Gurkha artillery emplacement of 105 mm howitzers.

Locals going through garbage discarded by the mess hall for 1/27 Marine regiment. They are pouring leftover milk out of the containers.

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.

Flooding in Camp Dong Son after a typhoon in September 1968.

Prior to troops advancing through the tree line, the flame tanks burnt out all the bobby-traps.

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

Dorms at the Defense Language Institute West Coast in Monterrey, California.