Phan Rang Air Base

Early Phan Rang Air Base
1966
Photos by Terry Morris

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20. Phan Rang Air Base: 1966: New tent-huts, with wooden walkways and storm drains.
20. Phan Rang Air Base: 1966: New tent-huts, with wooden walkways and storm drains.
21. Phan Rang Air Base: 1966: New tent-huts and new sandbag bunkers -- we were going to need them.
21. Phan Rang Air Base: 1966: New tent-huts and new sandbag bunkers -- we were going to need them.
22. Phan Rang Air Base: 1966: Tent-Hut with a 'pull out' of sorts, and the ever present mamasans doing our laundry with what smelled like barf-water.
22. Phan Rang Air Base: 1966: Tent-Hut with a 'pull out' of sorts, and the
ever present mamasans doing our laundry with what smelled like barf-water.
23. Phan Rang Air Base: 1966: Tent-Hut with mamasans digging through trash for C-Rats. Note the CSA Rebel Flag on the hut's corner.
23. Phan Rang Air Base: 1966: Tent-Hut with mamasans digging through trash for C-Rats. Note the CSA Rebel Flag on the hut's corner.
24. Phan Rang Air Base: 1966: Piss Tube with courtesy-walls (early on, there were no walls). HEY! Is nothing scared anymore?
24. Phan Rang Air Base: Piss Tube with courtesy-walls (early on, there were no walls).
HEY!!! Is nothing scared anymore?
25. Phan Rang Air Base: Airman Tipton, and Outdoor Life magazine. Not exactly how I pictured it there.
25. Phan Rang Air Base: Airman Tipton, and Outdoor Life magazine. Not exactly how I pictured it there.
26. Phan Rang Air Base: Who is he, and what's he doing... up to something... cooking C-Rats?
26. Phan Rang Air Base:  Who is he, and what's he doing ... up to something ... cooking C-Rats?
27. Phan Rang Air Base: Airman Fisher on the Rings of the Gym he built, and an extension to the Tent-Hut.
27. Phan Rang Air Base: Airman Fisher on the Rings of the Gym he built, and an extension to the Tent-Hut.
28. Phan Rang Air Base: US Army area, with Rows of Tent-Huts walled-in with sandbags. Soldier, center-far-left: HEYYYYYY... DINKY-DAO -- Quit Stealin' them sandbags!
28. Phan Rang Air Base: US Army area, with Rows of Tent-Huts walled-in with sandbags.
Soldier, center-far-left:HEYYYYYY... DINKY-DAO -- Quit Stealin' them sandbags!
29. Phan Rang Air Base: Airman Schroeder, hanging clothes... too cheap to pay mamasan?
29. Phan Rang Air Base: Airman Schroeder, hanging clothes... too cheap to pay mamasan?

30. Phan Rang Air Base: Airman Nishii (Me No VC)
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31. Phan Rang Air Base: Airmen Nishii and Kraus.
32. Phan Rang Air Base: 35th APS Orderly Room.
32. Phan Rang Air Base: 35th APS Orderly Room.

33. Phan Rang Air Base: 35th APS Paddy Wagon. Hey... yous lookin' at me?
33. Phan Rang Air Base: 35th APS Paddy Wagon. Hey... yous lookin' at me?
34. Phan Rang Air Base: 35th APS, Getting Off Shift. Note inflatible wharehouses.
34. Phan Rang Air Base: 35th APS, Getting Off Shift. Note inflatable warehouses.

Stuff Burning Detail: Hey Airman! You busy?


35. Six Hole (8 holes?) Outhouse
Stuff
Burning Detail.
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36.Happy in My Work!
Where's the disel?
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37. Not Happy in My Work!
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38. Let's washie clothesie
by this nice crapper.
39. Phan Ran Air Base: Mess Kits.Hey! I know I left my ride parked RIGHT here!
39. Phan Ran Air Base: Mess Kits. Hey! I know I left my ride parked RIGHT here!
40. Phan Ran Air Base: Airmen washing Mess Kits.
40. Phan Ran Air Base: Airmen washing Mess Kits.

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