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Aerial view of Firebase Nancy, outside of Dinh Quan, northern Long Khanh Province, 1970.
Photo by Collins. Routine but of interest to those who want to know how these fire bases were laid out and constructed. You can see the 105 mm howitzers and the perimeter berm and look at how far out they had to cutback the jungle to keep from being overrun, etc.! This was never published in the Redcatcher for security reasons.


In 1943, U.S. Naval Intelligence decrypted a message that revealed the travel schedule for ADM Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. Four days later, P-38s flew 600 miles and shot down the plane carrying the man who had planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. This photo was taken just hours before his death.