Rear area in Dong Ha for the 4th Marine Regiment. New mess hall under construction.

Camp Pendleton in September 1967 during Oakes' infantry training. The men slept in tents elevated on plywood floors because there was not enough housing for all the soldiers.

Medevacing a soldier wounded in the leg during an firefight.

Lt. O'Rourke (center of picture) deploying troops during a firefight south of Hue.

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.

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

Oakes and three other soldiers acting as an escort for a Chinese couple in Chinatown, San Francisco.

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

Ambush of Oakes' patrol as they advanced to the tree line in the background.

A CH-53 Sea Stallion resupplying LZ Neville in Spring 1969.

Weapons captured in the DMZ area. Clockwise from the bottom left: Oakes' M-16, 82 mm mortar, SKS, AK-47, M-79, 60 mm mortar, and a Russian Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, manufactured in 1947 (This weapon was brought home as a war prize with Oakes).