Viet Nam Photo Collection

I served in the U.S. Army in Viet Nam from March 1968 to June 1970.  
 

• During my first year, I lived in a regular Army Signal Corps unit (Company A/44, 36th Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade, USARV - US ARmy Vietnam ) at Bien Hoa Army Base and was was a "professional amateur radio operator" in the Army MARS (Military Amateur Radio System) program.
   
•  During the next 6 months, I was in a MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) advisor company in the town of Ba Ria, Phouc Tuy province about 30 miles north of the resort city of Vung Tau.
   
• During my final 6 months, I was with AFVN (American Forces Vietnam Network) radio-TV and spent time in Saigon, Da Nang and on Hon Tre (an island off the coast of the central coast resort city of Nha Trang). 
   

The video slide show below contains some of the over 3,000 pictures I took during my time there, synchonized to actual audio from AFVN radio circa 1969-70.    The originals are Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides, converted to digital form with a Nikon Coolscan LS-5000 film scanner.

• The slide show video is in H.264 MP4 format playable on all modern browsers. This presentation was originally created with the first-gen Windows Movie Maker included with Windows XP. The maximum output video resolution of this program was only 480x640 VGA (i.e. NTSC analog TV resolution); far far worse than the original slide scans. As a result, the images may appear either small, or somewhat fuzzy, when upscaled to modern higher-resolution screens.
  
  In the near future, I plan to redo this video in modern 1920x1080-line Full-HD.
   
• The virtual iPod is an interactive widget implemented in Adobe Flash. It won't be viewable on i-Devices since they don't support the Adobe Flash .FLV format. Since this was more than just a video clip, there appears to be no easy way to convert the virtual iPod widget to a more modern format compatible with "Flash-less" browsers.