The Snapshots in Time Collection

U.S. Truck Route Signage on Saigon Street, Cu Chi Area, Vietnam, 1967

U.S. Truck Route Signage on Saigon Street, Cu Chi Area, Vietnam, 1967

Photographed from inside a military vehicle in 1967, this street scene near Saigon shows a road sign marking the U.S. Army truck route connecting Tan Son Nhut Air Base to the Saigon docks — a vital logistics artery supplying American forces during the Vietnam War buildup. French colonial architecture and everyday civilian traffic frame the scene, illustrating how the American military presence was woven into the fabric of a bustling Vietnamese city far from the battlefield, dependent on a constant flow of supplies moving between port and airfield. Project: 218544