Opens the tray: "Tay Ninh, 'Shroud.'" Handwritten, blue ground.
A shack beside the PSP — the perforated steel matting laid down for a temporary airstrip.
A crew chief at a mounted .30-caliber machine gun — a door gun position.
An H-21 Shawnee on the strip draws a small crowd of onlookers.
The H-21 up close, being loaded.
Two figures along a fence line. The parenthetical is his — his own aside, not ours.
A Vietnamese cemetery behind a wire fence — traditional stone grave markers. Dark humor.
The airstrip matting itself, empty.
Confirmed by markings visible on the aircraft: "U.S. ARMY 81694."
Open field, tree line, a small structure.
A Red Cross flag over a tent — Dr. Ralph sitting among the soldiers gathered around it, very possibly his own aid station.
Literal — a rig with hooks for hanging gear. Behind it, UH-1 Hueys marked "ARMY."
Named directly.
A C-123 Provider bringing in supplies.
A CH-37 Mojave with a CH-21 Shawnee behind it. Cross-referenced against a second CH-37 photo from a different tray, captioned "Off To Rescue" — likely this aircraft's actual job here.
Vietnamese children near the base, seated along a rail. His word, kept as he wrote it.
A sheltered structure under trees — reads more like a local dwelling than a U.S. position, but not certain.
uncertain — which "camp"
A chow line.
More children, same scene continuing.
Same again — a larger group now.
The only photo of him in this entire tray. He's sitting on a stretcher with a field phone — the same crowd of children from the "Beggers" photos visible behind him.
Núi Bà Đen, at dusk. This is what places the whole tray in Tay Ninh.
Horses grazing in an open field, the mountain behind them. He closed the tray here.