The Snapshots in Time Collection

Airmen's Billeting Area ('Hootches') with Motorcycle and Lawn Maintenance, U.S. Air Base, Vietnam, 1965

Airmen's Billeting Area ('Hootches') with Motorcycle and Lawn Maintenance, U.S. Air Base, Vietnam, 1965

Airmen tend to a motorcycle outside their quarters at a U.S. air base in Vietnam, 1965. Neatly kept lawns and picket fences framed the rows of prefabricated huts, or 'hootches,' that housed personnel of the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing during the early years of the air war. Project: 218284