Vietnam
 
Photo credits for the Vietnam photos: Joan van Ommen, scanned from old color slides and b/w prints.
Fort Ord March '61
Fort Ord March '61

12/19/2004 11:57:14 AM

At Carmel California after completing basic training.

January 1962

12/17/2004 10:55:33 PM

On a bridge over one of the many canals in the Chinese section of Saigon called Cholon

January 1962
Paris of the Orient
Paris of the Orient

12/18/2004 6:03:47 PM

Clockwise from left: Rue Catinat or Tu-Do. Blvd Cong Ly. The Saigon river. Park and Botanical garden in Saigon.

Our apartment.

12/18/2004 6:17:55 PM

423 Hai Ba Trung. $35 per month

Our apartment.
Noe
Noe

12/17/2004 10:59:24 PM

Noe and her daughter Kim Ngoc and Joan van Ommen. Noe worked for us. She is an ethnic Chinese.

Joan's students

12/17/2004 11:04:42 PM

Joan taught English at the Hoi Viet My.

Joan's students
1963 in Santa Barbara
1963 in Santa Barbara

1/17/2005 7:41:32 AM

Hoi Viet My students on study in the U.S. paying us a visit in Santa Barbara.

Drivers License

12/18/2004 9:54:47 AM


Drivers License
Cercle Sportif
Cercle Sportif

12/18/2004 6:11:04 PM

I spent a good deal of my working day at the pool. As a rule this was not accessable to American service men.

Cercle Sportif

12/18/2004 9:59:07 AM


Cercle Sportif
Honai
Honai

12/17/2004 11:18:53 PM

Suzy Colpron a Dutch Canadian whose husband, Guy, was a volunteer doctor at the orphangage. With Montagnard patients.

Cap St.Jacques

12/17/2004 11:07:32 PM

The nearest beach resort to Saigon now called Vung Tau. With Suzy Colpron.

Cap St.Jacques
Kuantan
Kuantan

12/17/2004 11:16:11 PM

We visited sawmills in Malaya. Kuantan is a fishing village on the East Coast.

Borneo

12/18/2004 6:17:55 PM

I visited sawmills in Sarawak and North Borneo in 1963. These are Ibans a Dayak tribe in Sibu living in long houses. Note the skulls from headhunting days.

Borneo
Penang
Penang

12/17/2004 11:13:13 PM

This was the Lone Pine resort on Penang. At the time still for British vacationers from Malaya and Singapore.

Penang

12/18/2004 6:27:11 PM

I am writing my travel reports about the visits to sawmills in Bangkok, Singapore and Malaya.

Penang