Gee,thanks for your "nice comments". The Airplane I went to Vietnam in
the first week of 1964 was a Pan American Airplane.We took off from San
Francisco Airport at around 11:00 PM that night and we stopped at
Anchorage Airport for breakfast and so the Airplane could refuel,I
remember seeing a big stuffed Polar Bear in the lounge area at Anchorage
Airport.From Anchorage we stopped at Hong Kong Airport for about half an
hour and then on our way to Tan Son Nhut Airport a few miles North of
Saigon.The next morning we were on our way to Can Tho to have our
paperwork filed there.We spent the night at Can Tho and then to Shannon
Wright Compound near Ving Long.I spent one year in Vietnam
www.114thaviationcompany.com and on our way back to America,we came
back to San Francisco Airport in a U.S.Air Force Airplane,(Pan American
Aircraft had been banned by then because of Vietcong attacks) we spent
the night at Yokota,U.S.Air Force Base in Japan.I spent four days and
nights at Oakland Army Terminal,Oakland,California waiting on going to
Vietnam.I was at Shannon Wright Compound for about three months and I
got transfered to Tan Son Nhut,same Company. www.tsna.org
The same year,my brother (he was eight years older than I am) was a
Helicopter Mechanic at Vung Tau,his second Tour Of Duty in Vietnam
following a year in Germany.I did not get Drafted,I joined the U.S.Army
on October 28,1962.I did my three years in the U.S.Army and I went back
to civilian life.

........D-Day Larry