Existence: August 1970
Existence: Majority of material found within August 1970

General Note: KHAM DUC Ektachrome Slides, Roll 1, Number 11. [ NOTE: Numbering is arbitrary since exact dates are unknown.]

35mm Ektachrome slides, printed by Kodak. Stamped on slide mounts in faint red ink: 'AUG70P1'

Photographer: Capt. James B. [Jim] Evans, Army Medical Corps, 91st Evacuations Hospital, Chu Lai, June 1970 to October 1970. TDY with Americal Division units at Kham Duc between 02 and 14 August 1970.

Canon f1.2 FTB 35 mm single lens reflex camera.

11 Medics filling sandbags with dirt. Sandbags protected generator that provided electricity for lights and blood products refrigerator in the medical aid station. Seated medic on left, unknown; standing medic with back to camera, unknown; seated medic with blonde hair, Eason; medic with back to camera, Hung; medic on right tying sandbag, unknown; medic Rocky Bampanni behind last solider. In background, medevac helicopter crew.

Digital scanned copy of slide printed as gray scale photograph.

Kham Duc, Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, in mountains about 10 miles from Laotian border. Medevac helicopter crew in background.

Digital copy from original Ektachrome slide, printed in black and white, November 2003.

Perma Link: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=VA068370

Citation: Photograph, VA068370. August 1970, James Evans Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=VA068370, Accessed 15 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line: VA068370, James Evans Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive