187 B&W VIETNAM WAR PHOTOS - from the free table , at the dump .

[mojjax]

I just went to our local transfer station to throw away a bag of trash , and I came home with these .
Most of them have writing on the backs - but many were once in a scrapbook , so it's hard to read some of the inscriptions .

 

[mojjax]

A few more -

 

[RTR]

Must be 'early' Nam.Never saw that 3 bladed prop plane over there

 

[mojjax]

Must be 'early' Nam.Never saw that 3 bladed prop plane over there

It could be a South Vietnamese plane ?

 

[mojjax]

A few are dated 1966

 

[diggin jimmy hoffa]

Great save
and a
BIG THANKS to all who have served

 

[RTR]

It could be a South Vietnamese plane ?

Could be a beaver >> https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=915

 

[mojjax]

Great save
and a
BIG THANKS to all who have served

I can't believe someone would toss this !
anyway here's another pic of the plane .

 

[mojjax]

eyes welled up on this one -

 

[jason4kstate]

These hit home. My uncle was Army Air. He was shot down in 65 and lived. He later flew air rescue later in the war and helped evac the wounded. One thing that always stuck with me is that he said 1/2 of his graduating class died in the war.

 

[Goldiver]

Sad to see someone's service memories in trash, I'm sure it happens every day though. Thank you for saving this history and sharing with us.

Steve

 

[diggummup]

Very nice save. I have a stack myself from '64 from a helicopter pilot.

 

[sprailroad]

We were all so young.

 

[d2]

We were all so young.

And brave. Thanks for those that served and are serving now. It has gotten to the point that very seldom am I amazed at what people throw away now. Those are family treasures that were almost discarded. I have a friend that came back from Viet Nam and burned all the pictures he took thinking that would help him with his PTSD, it didn't, but in cases like that I understand. At least someone put them on the free table. Thanks for caring enough to rescue them...d2

 

[JimDon]

It is so sad that these things get tossed. I am so thankful you save them. The more I dabble in watches the more I am leaning toward just collecting military watches. i’m going to do a post here shortly when I get all of them back showing my different watches from different wars. .

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Thank you for saving these. On the one's posted there were a lot of familiar things but little I actually recognized - except for the MACV patches. These pictures were apparently several years prior to my deployment. I still have a box of pictures I'd taken, but I look at them now and recognize very little.

These are lost memories and meaningless to strangers.

 

[RTR]

I still have my pix !

 

[mcb66]

Thanks for saving these. Some folks just don't have a clue...

 

[Plumbata]

Great save!! About 20 years ago I bought a box of photos from the estate of a WW2 vet, and contained within the more usual wartime and postwar pictures were a bunch of nudes of what I presume were Filipino prostitutes! Probably not appropriate for a 4th grader but what can ya do

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds and a great save!