Monday, August 29, 2011

Walter Zoomie's father's pictures from 1966 in Vietnam


Th 14th picture in the first slideshow is of the above statue, the Marine Statue in Saigon, under construction. This may be the only one ever taken and/or in existence.
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Photos taken by my father, Rick Johnson, who was the only Indiana newspaperman to cover the Vietnam war. He spent a month in Vietnam from October to November, 1966.
Vietnam Diary: In The Towns
Slideshow
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Vietnam Diary: With The Ground Troops
Slideshow
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Vietnam Diary: In The Air
Slideshow
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Vietnam Diary: At Sea
Slideshow
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7 comments:

  1. Walter ZoomieAugust 30, 2011 at 11:49 AM

    Thanks for the kudos. The old man was a pretty good lensman.

    Part of an email I received a few years ago. I don't know if this guy ever made the website, and I cannot find any evidence that he did...

    "I'm a retired Marine and former advisor to a South Vietnamese Marine battalion. I'm creating a not-for-profit web site...which will be a history of the Marine Advisory Unit during the Vietnam War.

    Purpose of the site is to provide a permanent record of the unit—and the outstanding Vietnamese Marines we worked with—for those still alive and for the families of those who are deceased.

    In preparing for launch of the site, I've been surfing for good shots of the Vietnamese Marine Memorial, which was located in front of the Vietnamese Parliament building until the arrival of the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong the day Saigon fell. (They destroyed the statue within about 48 hours after their arrival.)

    The statue was created to honor the gallantry of Vietnamese Marines with the same type of recognition the U.S. Marine Memorial (statue of Joe Rosenthal's Iwo Jima flag-raising photo) provides to American Marines on the edge of Arlington National Cemetery.

    While surfing, I spotted the photo, which, if I'm interpreting some of your posts correctly, was taken by your late father.

    The purpose of this email is to request permission to use the photo on my site. It would be on a page that provides a history of the statue along with some other shots of it taken from different angles.

    Your dad's is one of the best I've found. I have permission to use a color shot, taken on the day the statue was dedicated, and actually even have a few that I took but they don't capture the perspective--size, relationship to surroundings, etc.--as well as your dad's."

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    1. Brock TownsendApril 28, 2019 at 5:49 PM

      I just received this comment from 2011 when I re-posted the same link yesterday. :) Sorry. Thanks.

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  2. Walter ZoomieAugust 30, 2011 at 12:02 PM

    In July of 2007 I published all of my father's Vietnam newspaper columns at my blog site, using many of the photos.

    http://walterzoomiesworld.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html

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    1. Brock TownsendApril 27, 2019 at 4:05 PM

      Hey, mans I can't assess your pictures and the 3 slideshow links above are bad.

      This blog is open to invited readers only
      http://walterzoomiesworld.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html

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    2. Walter ZoomieApril 27, 2019 at 5:51 PM

      czech your emails

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    3. Brock TownsendApril 28, 2019 at 5:51 PM

      :) Just saw your two comments from 2011 today! :)

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  3. Brock TownsendAugust 30, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    Thanks for the goodies and I'll check them out. As far as the Vietnamese Marine Corps is concerned, pick up "Ride The Thunder" Honour & Triumph In Vietnam. It is excellent.

    http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2011/04/ride-thunder-honour-triumph-in-vietnam.html

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