PHOTOS FROM BRUCE REID

Photographs taken by Bruce D. Reid; 2-11 Artillery and Division Artillery, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile)

Note from Bruce: These are scans of some of the slides and print negatives that I took during my Vietnam tour in 1971. I scanned the color negatives rather than the color prints due to color alteration issues with the prints. The colors on the negatives have changed a bit with time but not at all like the prints. I acquired a camera late into my tour so I missed the chance to take photos of other firebases.

Bob Hope Show - This performance was Dec. 25, 1971 at Camp Eagle. The first clear day in a long time. I remember getting a sunburn that day. 01 – Bob Hope and Jim Nabors 02 – Jim Nabors, Bob Hope, and ? 03 – Hope and cast 04 – Singer – name not remembered 05 – Jim Nabors 06 – More Gals 07 – Some of the crowd

Camp Eagle - These were taken December. 1971 - January, 1972 01 – Old French Bunker at entrance to Division Artillery area 02 – Somewhere in the area of 2-11 Artillery 03 – Helipad at Division HQ 04 – Somewhere on Camp Eagle 06-11 – Views along the Camp Eagle perimeter defenses

FSB Bastogne - Taken summer and fall of 1971 01-04 – B Battery 2-11 Artillery 155mm Towed 05-16 – Views around FSB Bastogne 17 – View of FSB Bastogne from Highway 547 18 – This may actually be FSB Birmingham 19 – 105mm battery – can’t remember unit 20-22 – 8 inch and 175 mm guns of the 24th Corps Arty 23 – A visit from the Red Cross Doughnut Dollies 24-25 – A steak cook-out 26-29 – A convoy came off Highway 547 to stay on the FB at the end of the day in October 1971. Don’t know where they were from or where they were headed. Number 29 is the M42 Duster giving a tracer show after dark. 30-49 – Misc. views of life on FSB Bastogne 50 – HQ 3rd Regt. 1st ARVN Division – Sometime in the fall of 1971 the base changed to ARVN control. They replaced the US TOC with a more elaborate new structure. 51 – ARVN troops picking up their rations.

Highway 547 - Taken along Highway 547 between the Song Huong bridge to FSB Bastogne, Fall 1971. Several of these show the aftermath of Typhoon Hester (October, 1971) 01-03 – Roadside village, possible Montgnard resettlement 04 – Coastal Uplands 05 – Roadside building 06-08 – Showing Song Huong bridge destroyed by Typhoon Hester. 09 – Engineer ferry across Song Huong after typhoon Hester 10 – Song Huong river 11-12 – West end of Song Huong bridge after Typhoon Hester 13 – Roadside village 14 – Walled compound along Highway 547

Hue Vicinity - These were taken just before Thanksgiving 1971 while on a convoy along QL 1 from Camp Eagle to Camp Evans. 01 – 04 – Roadside scenes 05 – Market scene 06 – Church, name unknown

Phu Bai