Texas Tech University

Negative

Photograph Item Number: VAN018180
Pages
1
Media Type
Photograph
Physical Location
Stacks
Language(s)
English
Dates
Existence: August 1970
General Note
Just in from long range patrol, 'Thousand Yard Stare.'

Before the squad came to the medical aid station, an officer told me a squad would be arriving. I was instructed to provide medical care but not ask where they had been. I had only a vague concept of where we were, just the deep boonies. I treated men all the time who had been out in the jungle. If I had asked where they had been, the answer would have been, 'We were out on Hill 260,' which meant nothing to me. As soon as the officer told me not to ask, I knew immediately the squad had been in Laos. The squad belongs to MACV SOG [Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group].

KHAM DUC 2 ROLL OF FILM Photographer: Capt. James B. [Jim] Evans, Army Medical Corps, 91st Evacuation Hospital, Chu Lai, June 1970 to October 1970. August TDY as battalion surgeon for Americal Division in Kham Duc. Jim Evans developed negatives at Chu Lai Phot Lab, between August and October 1970.

Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=VAN018180

Citation
Negative, VAN018180. August 1970, James Evans Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=VAN018180, Accessed 18 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line
VAN018180, James Evans Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Added: 04 Jul 2012 [Updated: 16 Sep 2022]