Photograph of a cloud plume from a blast during well construction, Vietnam, circa 1965Caption on accompanying document: "182. Blasting to break up hard pan soil to get better water well for the village."
Photograph of servicemen constructing a runway at Chu Lai Air Base, circa 1965.Caption on accompanying document: "181. Movment [movement] while building the runway under the lights."
Photograph of servicemen and vehicles at a laterite quarry, Vietnam, circa 1965. Caption on accompanying document: "177. The laterite quary [quarry]. It turned out to be more clay than laterite."
Photograph of servicemen working on air base construction at night, Chu Lai Air Base, circa 1965.Caption on accompanying document: "176. Working on the airfield at night."
Photograph of hardback tents at Chu Lai Air Base, Vietnam, circa 1965.
Caption on accompanying document: "175. Our camp after hard backing our tents. We are now out of the sand."
Photograph of servicemen laying runway matting at Chu Lai Air Base, Vietnam, circa 1965.Caption on accompanying document: "174. Laying matting at night under high intensity lights."
Photograph of the Camp Shields sign at Chu Lai Air Base, Vietnam, circa 1965. The emblem for Mobile Construction Battalion 10 (MCB-10) is displayed on the sign.Caption on accompanying document: "173. We changed the name to Camp Shields in memory and…
Aerial photograph of Chu Lai Air base under construction, Vietnam, circa 1965.Caption on accompanying document: "172. Our camp from the air showing the airfield starting to be built."
Photograph of U.S. Navy officers on the deck of an LST, circa 1965.
Caption on accompanying document: "171. To [two] officers of the LST waiting to offload MCB-10."
Photograph of the Vietnamese coast as seen from an arriving U.S. Navy ship, circa 1965.Caption on accompanying document: "170. The morning of our landing. The speck was a small boat that was full of explosives and was destroyed by gun fire."