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

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

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.

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.

Patrol during Operation Allen Brook. Right after Oakes took the picture, North Vietnamese machine guns began firing from the opposite bank.

Operation Allen Brook. F-4 Phantom releasing ordanace on an enemy position firing upon Oakes' unit

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

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).

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.

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

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

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