Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA068039
- Pages
- 1
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Physical Location
- Stacks
- Language(s)
- English
- Collection
- James Evans Collection
- Association
- Americal Division Veterans Association
Dates
Existence: August 1970Existence: Majority of material found within August 1970
- General Note
- KHAM DUC 2 [NOTE: Numbering sequence of rolls film is for convenience only and does not necessarily indicate chronologic order.]
27A 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 apparently belonged to SOG [Studies and Observation Group] MACV.
Date: August 1970
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 Photo Lab, between August and October 1970.
35 mm Kodak Plus X Pan film.
Canon f1.2 FTB 35 mm single lens reflex camera.
Member of a long range patrol who had just returned from a mission. I was told to provide medical care for the men and not to ask where they had been. Kham Duc was in Viet Nam but within about 10 miles of the border with Laos and Cambodia. My assumption is they had been across the border. His look of fatigue, stress and sadness has been called the thousand yard stare: the piercing glance looking for Charlie in the jungle or looking into eternity.
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=VA068039
- Citation
- Photograph, VA068039. August 1970, James Evans Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=VA068039, Accessed 15 Feb 2026.
- Pub Credit Line
- VA068039, James Evans Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 20 Jan 2015 [Updated: 21 Feb 2020]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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