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The first picture above shows the forward 20 mm mount after conversion from a twin fifty caliber mount and an earlier picture of me alongside the USS Harnett County (LST-821) just south of the Ben Luc bridge, March 1969.

The photo on the left below is of Gordon King, an engineman aboard the LST Harnett County (the ha ha county as he calls it).  He now owns a diesel sales and service center in San Diego.  I think that's a can of Carling Black Label in my hand below, which proves I'd drink almost anything.  Note I finally got a light meter.  We're both sitting on our ice box, a home-made styrofoam and silicon box that held a sizable enough amount of Vietnamese ice and American beer.

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That's George Sanchez and myself possibly on an excursion up the Vam Co Dong river.  The pictures below are of a Korean USO show on a pontoon alongside the USS Harnett County (LST-821) in Spring, 1969.  

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These are shots of a 20 mm gun mount on our Alpha boat:

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