The Herb Blume Photo Collection

 

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APL-5 Da Nang

APL Poker Game

PCFs Nested at Da Nang

Da Nang Rations

Bolger-Blume-Ullman

CPO Wiggins BM1 Studs

Departure from APL-5

Monkey Mountain

Sand Bags at Cua Viet

Hooch at Cua Viet

Tea Time at Cua Viet

Amtraks at Cua Viet

Swift Base Chu Lai

Swift HQ Chu Lai

Hootenanny Six

Blume-Velloni-Wilborn

PCF-21 echelon left

Eat My Wake Mutha

Nuoc Mam Express

Ops Normal-Beach Call

Up into the guntub

Check the head spacing

Boresight the 50's

Service the aft 50

Coastal Group 26

Cam Ranh Bay

The new kids before they were NEW KIDS
Lash-Hancock-Blume

The New Kid Memorial
Library and Coffee Mess
NSF Cam Ranh Bay

Entrance to the Library

NSF Cam Ranh Bay

USS Gallup PG-85

Cam Ranh Bay docks

Market Time
Surveillence Center
Vung Tau

White Castle
Hamburger Stand
and Mother Ship

PCF-12 and PCF-94

An Thoi 1967

PCF-55 on skids

PCF-14 Pilot House

One each GMC 12V71
There were two to a boat

One each Instrument Panel
There was only one to a boat

Americans are tall

Vietnamese are short

Fishnets were the scourge
of every Swift Boat
.... and vice-versa

Coastal Group Yabutas

Were usually helpful

Storing detainees took
some thought at times
in order to be humane

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