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).

Washing the red clay off the jeep in the rear area in the Quang Tri area with the help of the locals.

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.

Vietnamese farmer leading his water buffalo. Notice the deep red clay.

Unmanned aerial drone in the center of the picture on the airfield at FOB Diamondback.

U.S.S. New Jersey passing by the U.S.S. Repose while Oakes is aboard the hospital ship USS Repose.

Two U.S. Army dusters, 40mm tracked AA vehicles, south of Hue on Route 1.

Transite barracks at Da Nang airfield, April 1969. Taken when Oakes is about to leave the country.

Tigris river south of Mosul

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…

The former Iraqi VIP building on FOB Q-West showing Cruise missile damage.

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.

SSG Ortiz posing with the Iraqi Army soldiers guarding the rear gate of FOB Q-West

Spent shell-casings at the firing range at FOB Q-West. An M-249 LMG (Light Machine Gun) is in the background

Sandstorm approaching FOB Q-West

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

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.

Rice paddies around the Quang Tri area

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.

Part of the Samarra bypass, a wall built around a hostile Iraqi town for protection of the convoys.