Old pictures of F.O. from 37 years ago
When I did my tour of Vietnam in 1969, like many GI's I always had a compact camera in the field. I carried a half-frame Olympus most of the time.
A half-frame camera would get 72 pictures on a 36 exposure roll, but the disadvantage is they would have to be blown up twice as large so they tend to be grainy.
At some point the PX ran out of print film and all they had was slide film, so I ended up with almost 100 shots on slides. I never had a slide projector, so the slides have been tucked away in a shoe box all these years
I recently bought a new scanner/printer that can enlarge and print both 35mm slides and negative film stock.
The first is a print that was a bit mottled by moisture damage, and of course some are kind of grainy from enlarging the half frame shots:
Young, pretty, and not too bright
Still young, not so pretty, and none the wiser
Getting older by the minute
F.O. for the Vietnamese Army.
Jungle highlands with the 101st.
Hueys in the sunset
That's it for now.
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Originally Posted by Pannonian
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