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.

LZ Gurkha artillery emplacement of 105 mm howitzers.

Rear area at LZ Stud, Vandergrift Combat Base. The jumping off point for the relief of Khe Sanh, October 1968.

Two U.S. Army dusters, 40mm tracked AA vehicles, south of Hue on Route 1.

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).

U.S.S. New Jersey passing by the U.S.S. Repose while Oakes is aboard the hospital ship USS Repose.

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.

Washing the red clay off the jeep in the rear area in the Quang Tri area with the help of the locals.

Route 1 south of Hue. Civilians building a fence around their village to keep the VC out.

Vietnamese farmer leading his water buffalo. Notice the deep red clay.

Rice paddies in the Da Nang area. The water in the paddies was usually twenty-inchs to two feet deep and at canals, the water was usually four or five feet deep and full of leeches.

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