A weather-delayed mission — grounded on the flight line by rain, boots stuck in mud, a takeoff abandoned, then finally airborne under clearing skies and a rainbow. On the ground at Vinh Long, a fully legible unit sign for the 73rd Aviation Company, and a wounded ARVN soldier being treated — his own medical work, documented directly. Closes with the same "continued next reel" handoff seen elsewhere in the collection.
Ground-level: a long, metal-roofed building among palm trees under heavy storm clouds, matching a "modern" construction style compared to traditional thatch.
Trees against a heavy, clouded sky.
A palm silhouette against building storm clouds.
Dark clouds gathering.
A tree line, hazy with falling rain.
Helicopters parked on the strip, rain coming down — likely "Flight Line" as written.
Shot through the aircraft door, the flight line beyond.
The same flight line, three UH-1s still grounded — a takeoff attempt abandoned, likely to weather. A yellow flight-line tow tractor sits in the foreground, a soldier at the wheel.
Boots, close up, standing in a muddy puddle.
Dramatic storm clouds, shot from the air.
Aerial over wet, waterlogged terrain.
A river, banks clearly visible on both sides, genuinely blue-green water, matching "Green River" as written.
A CH-21 clearly visible in flight against low, heavy clouds, a second aircraft's rotor just visible at frame edge — a winding river far below. "Low Clouds, River From Nowhere" as best read.
A striking aerial pattern of flooding rice paddies.
Aerial over fields, a road cutting through.
uncertain — likely "Green at Edges"
Shot from inside the cabin, door gunner in silhouette against a bright, reflective sky.
A winding river catching the light below.
Aerial, light glinting off water and rooftops in the dark terrain below.
A Vietnamese village, houses lining a road, not a US base — reads like they're racing each other back over the village en route home.
Storm clouds on the way back.
Aerial over the base at dusk.
Opens the tray: "Vinh Long, 'Lucky Gold.'" Handwritten, pink ground.
Aerial over a winding river en route.
A rainbow over the fields — the weather clearing after the earlier rain-delayed departure.
Ground level, a muddy road beside a marshy pond, another faint rainbow visible in the sky — same weather clearing as #88.
A unit sign, fully legible: "73rd AVN CO, Vinh-Long, 1st & 4th Section Platoon, 9th Div." The clearest, most directly confirmable unit identification anywhere in this collection.
His title decodes cleanly against the photo: a CH-21 ("21") lifting off, armed troops ("Troops") sitting on the ground, and a row of UH-1Bs marked "ARMY" parked in the background ("BK UH-B").
A genuinely large formation — several dozen soldiers, silhouetted, weapons visible, standing in a muddy field under a heavy sky.
A recoilless rifle on its tripod mount, soldiers seated around it, helmets set down nearby — a rest stop, weapon close in frame.
Same different-format shape seen elsewhere in the collection, not an irregular print — a Red Cross flag and two helicopters.
A wounded ARVN soldier on a stretcher, a triage tag visible on his chest, a splint being applied to his leg. An Air Force first-aid dressing kit sits nearby, Red Cross marked. This is his medical work, documented directly and closely.
Yellow flowers among green brush.
Two men at a defensive position along a barbed-wire perimeter fence, one aiming a weapon over a dirt berm — him on the left, matching the "+" for the second man.
Tall reeds against a clouded sky.
His own note marking the transition to the next physical reel — the same handoff pattern seen at slide 100 in other trays.