Watch Tower
Momma San
Clutter
Party
SSDP
Jim
Downtown Pleiku, 1971
Pleiku Tropo Hill 1971
Hoot
BJ
Volley
Cross Culture
Quonset
Wards 1 & 2
After Dark
Rice Paddy
Party & Sky
Rotors
Pleiku Countryside
Party Pleiku
Truck
Vietnamese Dirt
Dogs of War
Open Door
Central Highlands
Party
Pleiku Downtown
Walkway
Boots
Beautiful Vietnam
Party On
Candles
End of Day
Down Below
Guard Tower in the haze...
BJ
The Pool @ 71st Evacuation Hospital
Dustoff at Dawn
The Walkway
DEROS 12/15/1971
Homeward Bound
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Jim Lovins photograph; Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. This building housed Republic of Korea troops and was just outside Pleiku's central MACV compound. It was roughly half-way between our "home" in the hospital complex and our "office" in MACV. The damage was done by a 122 mm rocket.
Every couple weeks the VC would fire missiles at us. While the rockets certainly weren't harmless--people died in this incident--they were far more scary than they were dangerous. Typically, we'd be ducking nine rockets in a day: Three in the early morning, three more around noon, and three before supper. They'd set up the rockets on the outskirts of the city--near the whorehouses, I'm told--and retreat into the town before the Hueys could respond. The intended target was usually the local military headquarters (II Corps). Since our Commcenter was on the line defined by the launch site and the target, we had more than a few close calls. But by the second rocket in each set, we'd be in the bunker, wearing tin pots & flack jackets.
Every couple weeks the VC would fire missiles at us. While the rockets certainly weren't harmless--people died in this incident--they were far more scary than they were dangerous. Typically, we'd be ducking nine rockets in a day: Three in the early morning, three more around noon, and three before supper. They'd set up the rockets on the outskirts of the city--near the whorehouses, I'm told--and retreat into the town before the Hueys could respond. The intended target was usually the local military headquarters (II Corps). Since our Commcenter was on the line defined by the launch site and the target, we had more than a few close calls. But by the second rocket in each set, we'd be in the bunker, wearing tin pots & flack jackets.
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