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).

Vietnamese women working in a field as VC lookouts. After the picture was taken, a VC ambush attacked the patrol from the tree line in the background.

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

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

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

The mountains of Laos are in the background and Oakes and a Forward Observer (FO) are directing artillery fire at suspected enemy concentration points along the Laotian border. This location is as far north and as far west as someone could go in…

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.

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

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

1st Marine Division band keeping the men occupied around April 27th just south of Hue. The men were waiting for a B-52 bombing mission to bomb a village the men had to go through. Two weeks before, the company had traveled through the village and…

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…

Corpsman Kirkpatrick and Lt. O'Rourke of 3rd Platoon, B Company 1/27 May 1968 before Operation Allen Brook.

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