My Christmas in Vietnam in 1965. Note the lights on the tree are are on. The lights are powered by five 28v DC Batteries wired in series. This was the only lit Christmas Tree on my ROK Tiger Compound!

Our 1 room hooch being built and completed just prior to Christmas 1965. This was built for both Capt. Nicholson and I to live in. 

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We moved into the hooch just before Christmas and I decorated it with my mini Christmas Tree and some ribbon streamers I got from the 299th Engn Bn Company B plus anything else I could scrounge up..

The above picture was taken just before I departed Vietnam.

Capt. Nicholson and I shared these quarters. Our quarters were constructed by the South Korean Army assisted by the Army Corp of Engineers for the supplies to build it. By then we had power run and our hut had lights! Note the Hand Made Lounge chair in the front area!

The M151 / MRC-108 Communications Jeep in the foreground. The Generator in the trailer right behind the quarters on the Right Our supply trailer closer to the quarters that I scrounged up to get supplies from where every I found them in Qui Nhon.  The Koreans would come to where I was with this trailer and we would load up and they would return to compound with the goodies.  I would fly back.

Would love to know who moved into my hooch
after I left the Tigers in Vietnam.  Anyone know?

My Christmas Card that I sent home to my family in early to middle December.  This is a hand painted water color on silk print that was very popular with a lot of the South Korean men as well. I was able to mail out this card when I was at Naha, Okinawa for 3 days before the Christmas holidays when the truce was called by both the North and South.  At this time I had to go Naha and get more film, paper and chemicals for the Korean Recon unit.