The Snapshots in Time Collection

Covered Motorbike Parking Area, U.S. Installation, Vietnam, June 1971

Covered Motorbike Parking Area, U.S. Installation, Vietnam, June 1971

A covered parking shelter for privately owned motorcycles and scooters at a U.S. installation in South Vietnam, photographed in June 1971. Small Japanese-made motorbikes and scooters, popular among American servicemen and support staff for getting around base and into nearby towns, line up beneath a makeshift timber-and-tarp roof. The scene offers a glimpse of everyday base life away from combat operations during the later years of the Vietnam War. Project: 218684