Photos of Tan An Air Field

By Jim Rives

Co C 99th CSB

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Co C 9th Med Bn

Thank You Jim

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2) Farmers working their fields

3) A Vietnamese hospital

4) A Vietnamese hospital

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9)Duffle bag, the company C, 9th medical battalion mascot.

Note the dog tag hanging on his neck. 

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12)We took out many of our frustration playing jungle ball.

We literally had bones broken on this court.

13) Paddies during the dry season

14) Some of our neighbors

15) The airstrip with the evening monsoons coming in.

16) I did not take many pictures like this but this was an ARVN soldier

we treated who ran into a booby trap and literally got nailed.

17) A Vietnamese fly. I won't forget them or the mosquitoes.

18) A birthday party for someone named Bill.

19) Our First sergeant. We just all called him Top so I am sorry

I cannot remember his name. He was a great individual.

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21) One of the infantry companies going out or coming in

22) A banana tree flower near the shower stall.

23) This lets you know we had some time on our hands. I took some x-rays for a time. We had a very small x-ray machine that we ran off of a generator. On one occasion an American women showed up out of the blue and needed a chest X-ray. She had something going for her that the Vietnamese women lacked so we keep the x-ray as something of a pin up picture. We had sense of humor. We were out in the sticks so had no women in our medical unit. One day an infantry huey landed on our media pad, deposited a rather attractive young American Nurse who just stood there with a lost look on her face. A couple of us happened to be standing there at the time so we approached her as any young red blooded American male who had not seen an American women for months might and asked if we could help her. She said she was new in country and had asked for a ride to large hospital in Ta Nin (SP?). She was clearly wandering if she had made a mistake. She was either misunderstood or mistakenly said Tan An as she ended up at our small aid station in the sticks standing on a helicopter pad. We wanted to keep her but our officers made us give her back

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26) I told you wrong. The canvas clad building is the shower. You can notice a little palm tree in front of it. That was the little mud hole with the pagoda. The mess hall would have been in back of and further behind the shower. Trying to put

all these pieces back together after a few years is tough.

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28) Part of the ammo dump at the end of the airfield.

Primarily rockets for the cobras and heweys.

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36) Duffle bag the company mascot and a fellow whose name

I don't remember. I do remember that he was a weight lifter.

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39) This was the Tan An airfield aid station were I was stationed. Anyone who was wounded in the area or need a shot might very well have spent time in this room as it was where we did both minor work and major life saving stuff.

40) Looking from the base in to Tan An 

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42) This was a corner of the supply company compound

 that was at the airfield

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Thank You Jim Rives for the photos of Tan An

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