Darrel Lang's 543rd TC Photos

Darrel Lang's Photographs -- Set Five

Darrel Lang sent me several sets of photographs taken when he was stationed at the 543rd, along with his comments and descriptions.. Click on a thumbnail to see the picture full size.
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3 		Set 4
Set 6
Set 7
  1. Me getting some sun -- I was a night driver
  2. Water tower. I think the showers were down at that end
  3. Saigon River from truck cab
  4. Market
  5. Night drivers filling sandbags. I took some ARVN Navy hats for us to have fun with
  6. Getting trucks ready for some convoy that we had to have tops on for
  7. Worker at the docks on my truck
  8. I think this is the bank of Saigon
  9. Just a little rain
  10. Getting the trucks ready
  11. We also drove Philco-Ford trucks from the compound next to ours. I drove this one sometimes.
  12. This may have been Thanksgiving or Christmas
  13. Rain, taken from my tent. That's a Philco-Ford truck in the background
  1. Getting set for a night run -- that's a USMC truck, we had three or four of them that we used for chopper blades because they had drop sides
  2. Motor pool. That was my truck and it just did not want to start that night. They fixed it in about an hour
  3. Cookout at the 543rd
  4. Cookout -- that's the mess hall in the background
  5. Mess hall, back of the compound
  6. I had just gotten to the 543rd and that was the truck I drove. I think this was Long Binh in April of '67
  7. On the road to Bien Hoa
  8. ARVN truck
  9. Downed power lines after Tet
  10. Water buffalo
  11. About ready to run over that ARVN jeep
  12. Bien Hoa air base and C-130s
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