Da Nang, Spring 1968. 122 mm rockets captured in the rocket belt south of Da Nang transported on a mule motorized cart to Camp Dong Son.

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…

40 ft. Connex containers at FOB (Forward Operating Base) Q-West that housing four people each. These were what the men first moved into in December 2004.

A CH-53 Sea Stallion resupplying LZ Neville in Spring 1969.

A flock of sheep and their herders.

AH-64 Apache flying into FOB Q-West in Iraq. Notice the consentina wire and the sand berm constituting the perimeter of the base.

AH-64 Apache hovering at an Apache refueling point at FOB Diamondback. (Mosul)

AH-64 Apache ready-line at FOB Q-West. Oakes' unit's compound is just off to the right of the picture.

Albanian soldiers stationed at FOB Diamondback.

Ambush of Oakes' patrol as they advanced to the tree line in the background.

Area 51, the parking / staging area for civilian 7,500 gallon tanker trucks.

Armored HUMVEE gun truck escorts from the convoy. The sign on the back warns of danger to stay back in both Arabic and English.

Armored vehicles preparing for a convoy from FOB Q-West.

Booby-trapped U.S. 105 mm howitzer round that Oakes stepped on. The round failed to detonate because the dirt around it gave way.

Captured Iraqi armor just outside the wire of FOB Diamondback.

Captured Iraqi armor sitting at FOB Morez.

City of Mosul and Mosul Air Base from the air. The airfield is in the middle ground with the city in the background.

Civilians houses overlooking FOB Diamondback in Mosul.

Commercial airliner that carried Oakes and the other men to Kuwait.

Constructing a perimeter of rails around the motor pool at the HHD 1225th Battalion HQ.

Convoy traveling down MSR Tampa. On-coming traffic has stopped to permit the convoy to go. Note that the convoy travels down the center of the road to avoid IEDs on the edge of the road.

Corpsman attending to wounded soldier who had tripped a booby-trapped hand grenade in the 3/27th Marine's area.

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

Crash S.F. C-130 at FOB Q-West. In the foreground is the hole that the plane hit upon land with debris from the plane still in the hole.