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.

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

LZ Gurkha artillery emplacement of 105 mm howitzers.

Medevacing a soldier wounded in the leg during an firefight.

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

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

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

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

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

Oakes preparing to go on a night patrol in March / April 1968 from Camp Dong Son.

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.