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Life in the American compound, 1964
Nemorino Says: --I arrived in Phước Vĩnh on July 24, 1964, after a twenty-minute flight from Saigon in the windowless belly of a two-engine "Caribou"...
One of the 35 Americans in Phuoc Vinh, 1964
Nemorino Says: --In a letter dated August 4, 1964, I wrote:The land around Phước Vĩnh is flat, mostly jungle and rubber trees. This is supposedly the rainy...
Working shifts in the commo shop
Nemorino Says: --From one of my letters:I work eight hours a day, seven days a week, for a total of 56 per. We rotate shifts every week, from day shift (8 to 4, very busy) to...
Americans and Vietnamese in the compounds
Nemorino Says: --Despite being cooped-up in the compounds, I was in daily contact with Vietnamese waitresses, maids, soldiers, jeep drivers, etc., most of whom were quite...
My first helicopter ride (first of many)
Nemorino Says: --In a letter dated August 26, 1964, I wrote:Last Monday I took my first trip out of Phuoc Vinh since I got here. The Colonel, who was going up north for the...
Nemorino Says: --From my letter of August 26, 1964:Meanwhile, back at Phước Vĩnh, my friend Lai continues to teach me Vietnamese, and I continue to reciprocate...
Nemorino Says: --In a letter dated September 24, 1964, I wrote:I am presently at Hớn Quản, relieving the regular radio operator who has gone to Saigon for four...
Back in Phước Vĩnh, 1965
Nemorino Says: --In a letter dated March 15, 1965, I wrote:Meanwhile, freshly returned from five days Rambling and Rumination in Hong Kong, I seem to be assigned to...
Nemorino Says: --In a letter dated April 5, 1965, I wrote:The other day the strangest thing happened here: it rained. A real thunderstorm, with winds first that blew up large...
A battle, sort of. Or at least an incident.
Nemorino Says: --One day towards the end of May 1965 we heard some shooting from the direction of Phước Vĩnh town at about one in the afternoon. Those of us...
The only building I recognized thirty years later
Nemorino Says: --I realize that this picture from the year 1965 is quite blurry, but I'm posting it here anyway because this house with the little steeple is the only building...
Nemorino Says: --On our way down route 13 there was a short but heavy monsoon shower, just as I remembered from my time in Vietnam thirty years before.The farmer in the first...
Phước Vĩnh in 1964/65 was the capital of Phước Thành ("Happiness") province and the headquarters of something called the PBT Special Zone, which started a few miles north of...
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