Photo Album '64, Page 24
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Senior Staff NCOs at awards ceremony aboard the USS Valley Forge somewhere in the South China Sea during August of 1964.  Click on photo to identify each Marine 

Photo by, Cpl. Warren R. Smith 
An interesting photograph of the ship we all started on (USNS Breton) and the one we ended our tour on (USS Valley Forge) tied up together in Subic Bay, P.I.  The A1-Es on the Breton are headed for Saigon.
 
  Photo by, Cpl. Warren R. Smith 
A Bosun's Chair is transferring one of our Marines from the USS Valley Forge to a supply ship.  This was after an inquiry of personal behavior not appropriate for his position or the Corps.
 
Photo by, Cpl. Warren R. Smith 
The Army's "house girls" at Pleiku provided us with clean clothes, and fresh fruit during our three day  Pleiku/Kontum Operation .
 
Photo by, Cpl. Warren R. Smith 
Air Force RF-102 Delta Daggers staging at Da Nang.  It is apparent that rocket and/or mortar attacks were not expected to be a problem since they are parked wing tip to wing tip. 

Photo by, Carl L. LaMonica, former E-4 USA 

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