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Camp USARTHAI - Camp #44
Camp Friendship
697th Engr Co - Pipeline
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Korat Marketplace in Downtown
Thai - "Tha-Lat"
Korat, Thailand (1968)
Thai Tha-Lat is a little out of focus and we appologize ...
.. the smells ..
- if you've ever been there, it will still bring back fond memories ...
7 Photo Credits: John Strain, Camp USARTHAI MP Unit
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Kart-wheeler ice cream vendor
on the streets in
Korat, Thailand (1968)
1 Baht for "farang"; 25 stahg for "loo" (children)
1 Baht was 5 cents then ..
I kid-you-not, we "foreignors" (farang) paid double-triple for everything !!!
7 Photo Credits: John Strain, Camp USARTHAI MP Unit
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Klong (River) near downtown Korat
Thailand (1968)
A favorite section of Korat, near the "Lady Monument"
for defending Korat against national enemies.
"Banana trees and another Klong ..."
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Photo Credits: 5 Bob Potter, 697th
7 John Strain, 697th
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Civilian Family Members of a TWA Contractor
Korat, Thailand 1967
A rare sight in Korat, "farang" civilians
..of the opposite sex! ..caucasian woman!
..even children..
7 Photo Credits: John Strain, Camp USARTHAI MP Unit
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Thai Silk
Tailor Shop in Korat - 1968
"Ready for that beautiful dress for your wife or mother or girlfriend..."
7 Photo Credits:
John Strain, Camp USARTHAI MP Unit
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The Streets of Korat .. 1968
"The Vietnam War is heating up since the Tet (Asian New Year) in '68, and
Korat is in another world of its own; isolated from the War by only
a few hundred miles, defended by the American Air Force, Army in Support
and augmented by their own Thai Military Forces, our allies."
Take a tour of these major boulevards, see the buildings that lined them
and come away with memories; care of our Gallery Donor, John Strain.
7 Photo Credits: John Strain, Camp USARTHAI MP Unit
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Figaro's
Officers Hang out ... <yawn>
Korat, Thailand (1968)
"Gee - guys,, anything 'stronger' then a Pepsi?!
Whose ever said 'Officers have more fun?!'"
7 Photo Credits: John Strain, Camp USARTHAI MP Unit
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Snack Bar/GI Hang Out
..after "duty hours," of course <bg>
Korat, Thailand (1968)
"This is -one- place I can honestly say I don't remember ...
..must have been lacking in a certain kind of
"ice cream ..."
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7 Photo Credits: John Strain, Camp USARTHAI MP Unit
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"GI - you want some honey?!" 7
Korat, Thailand 1967
On the prawl - this ain't Ed!
G.I. Joe, on the streets in Korat; looking for a good bookstore ...
Photo Credits:
9 Ed Kurtz, US Mail/Friendship
7 John Strain, Camp USARTHAI MP Unit
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Korat Trees Blossoming ...
Miscellaneous -
Thai Army -
our allies in Korat !
RTAFB Tank Farm
Ice Merchant in Korat
"Choo Choo" Trains in Korat
Two
Log Yard for the Trains
7 Photo Credits:
John Strain, Camp USARTHAI MP Unit
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