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Photo's in this Album are compliments of Mr. Zeke Ressler, a Hillclimber from 11/70 - 11/71, mostly taken within the Can Tho AO. This is the Maintenance Officers (CPT Cahill ) ¾ ton pickup truck which I drove. |
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A Hillclimber in it's reventment. |
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Construction of the new macadam runway at Can Tho AAF. |
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More construction. |
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One of the Caribou's that regularly flew into and out of the airfield. |
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This was a camp just north of the airfield. I'm not sure, but I think they were P.O.W.'s. |
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One of the many houses along the road to Can Tho. |
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This was a Texaco station going north towards the naval base. |
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Some sort of road marker along the road to Can Tho. |
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One of the nicer villa's outside the airfield. |
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Downtown Can Tho. |
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More downtown Can Tho. |
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One of the rivers flowing through Can Tho. |
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Another house beside the road to Can Tho. |
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One of the many drainage ditches in the area. |
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This was a Temple, I believe, along the road to the naval base. |
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Another river shot going to Can Tho. |
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Some of the sampans that would work the rivers during the rainy season. |
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One of the Hillclimbers doing a hover check during take-off. |
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My old 3/4 on the flight line with a Hillclimber slinging an engine removal crane in the background. |
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One of my buddies, I think his name was Tom Skillman, telling me what he thought of the whole situation. |
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One of the many LOH's that were constantly taking off and landing directly behind our hooch. |
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A cobra going over a few Hillclimbers. |
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Looking across the Airfield at the control tower. |
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Another shot of one of the Caribou's. |
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This was a Beaver landing or taking off. |
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C-123 that would stop by occasionally. |
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Same plane taking off. |
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The Airfield fire department. |
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This was a huey that was shot down and recovered by the Hillclimbers. |
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More of the shot down huey. |
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My old 3/4 inside the Hillclimbers Hangar. |
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This was parked right outside our back door. To the right of the picture is the small club that was built there in 71. |
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This was our motor pool sergeant. I forget his name. |
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Who could ever forget the cockpit of a Chinook. |
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Standing on the ramp looking forward. |
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I'm not sure what I was doing on top of this bird. Maybe I was helping my buddy Billy C. Morgan, our engine man. |
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Just a side shot of one of our birds. |
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This was "Buck" Buchanan taking a break. |
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Two of the maintenance guys fixing something. |
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I think this was SGT Schoppe with his crew in the background replacing a rotor blade. |
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A couple of our birds. |
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This one waits for a new forward transmission. |
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Just one of the stray dogs that hung around the compound. |
| This is the front of the Hillclimbers hangar. |
| This is part of the mountain of sand that was pumped from one of the rivers for the runway construction project. |
| This was one of the generators that supplied power for our side of the airfield. |
| The hooch on the right was the flight platoon's, to the left was the maint. platoon. |
| Some of the equipment in our motor pool. |
| Looking out over an empty reventment to the outskirts of Can Tho. |
| Wash day. |
| The ammo bunker for the Hillclimbers. |
| The Can Tho AAF movie theater. |
| The post PX. |
| This was the inflatable storage building for the PX. |
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This was the Airfields Recreation Center, and yes, it really was pink! |
| Believe it or not, but you could take classes at the Education Center. |
| We all remember the nights on guard duty in bunkers like this one. |
| An empty parking lot. Must have been one of our many busy days. |
| This was the small pond at the far end of our flight line. |
| I'm not sure exactly where this is, but it's probably soon after take-off, headed for Saigon. |
| Again, a shot from the air, maybe the Air Force or Naval base not far from Can Tho AAF. |
| Somewhere in the air over the delta. |
| This concludes Zeke's photo contribution, hope you enjoyed the trip down memory lane. - Anyone with any questions, or just want to say Hi to Zeke, contact him through the webmaster: rrbrown@147thhillclimbers.org. Be sure to put "Zeke Ressler" in the subject line. |