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).

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Rice paddies around the Quang Tri area

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.

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

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.