Comprising a Life

The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting

Convoys

Although all of our missions began by our being picked up by helicopter at firebase Husky, occasionally we would come out of the jungle to a prearranged road where we would be picked up by trucks and driven back to the firebase.  These were usually dusty affairs particularly in the dry season but they did provide a great opportunity to see and photograph a different Vietnam from the one we saw from the bush. 

After a mission, coming out of the bush and loading on trucks

 

Going through a small town

 

Going through a small village

 

Halling straw through a mango grove. Whats wrong with this picture? Would you have thought to check the cart?

 

Some times you just had to trust that this was just an innocent scene and that pappa san wasn't taking weapons to the Viet Cong

 

I never tired of seeing these big-wheeled ox driven carts

 

A road side market thrown togeather to take advantage of a new American built road

 

More road side selling

 

I imagin this was a temple sponsored school of some sort but really not sure.

 

Bradshaw, me, Doc Hadder, Sargent Rossie and I'm not sure any more who that last guy was

 

Scene taken from convoy

 

French owned rubber plantation; the owner's Summer home

 

Enlarged for better view of house

 

Back at fire base Husky