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spookyboss
 Post subject: Pictures from Vietnam
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My Father served in photo recon at Udorn in 1970-71. last week I was at his house and he asked if I wanted some old negitives he had in a folder. I am very happy to have these to share with you all.
Image somewhere over North Vietnam
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Truck park
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another truck park
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OV-10 Bronco over a River
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A lake with what looks like a Dam
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KC-135 with F-4's
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F-4's and F-105's
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This is the coolest shot take a look in the background, it's THUD RIDGE !
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Bombs away
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Tail code is RK which I think is the 333rd TFS
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More THUD'S
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ww2John
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Thanks Spookyboss for sharing these pictures from Vietnam. A good perspective of the day-in & day-out "business" of combat.
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Great photos spookyboss. Tell your father we appreciate y'all sharing them with us.

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fantastic!! thanks for sharing. bombs aways is awesome!

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tom d. friedman
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excellent the pics give an interesting perspective of the daily grind.

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I'm guessing those shots of Thuds bombing through the clouds would be SkySpot missions, right?

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A few more pic's from the Nam era from one of our SAH members:
http://www.sfahistory.org/bailey.htm

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