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

Rice paddies around the Quang Tri area

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.