The Dark Room - A Collection of Photos of the War

Canh Sat Highway patrol and US MP doing a roadside check, on the road to Long Binh.

This photo is causing a lot of comments on FB, mainly along the lines of "I spent my tour driving that road and NEVER saw no South Vietnamese Highway Patrol car!"

Some are even commenting that it is fake.

Photographer: Unknown

Source: Vietnam War Pics & Memories FB group

OTB wrote:Some are even commenting that it is fake.

Ugh....

I found similar photo too, in a Flickr album. It is a Ford Falcon 1962, no? so seems no a fake, I think.

Looks authentic to me.

Nice photo! I need to get a diecast Ford Falcon now...

Then and now: cinema in Hue...



17 February 1968 - ominously, the spaghetti Western film playing at the time of the Tet offensive was called "tempo di massacro" (Massacre Time), starring Franco Nero (who starred in the original Django).



13 January 2024 - the cinema is now being used as a cultural hall.

Amazing that it's still there.
What do they do in a Cultural Hall?

I'm guessing "get cultured"?

Concerts, traditional song and dance troupes, Communist Party meetings - that sort of thing.

New Zealand Troops in Saigon, 1972
Driving on Hiền Vương Street, District 3. Intersection with Hai Bà Trưng ahead, wall of the old French Cemetery to the left. I lived a block away from here.

Photographer: Unknown
Source: Sunny Saigon FB Group

Photo taken from almost the same spot as above, but 4 years earlier.

Same intersection, just after the 1968 Tet Offensive
A Company, 720th MP Battalion lead Armored Personnel Carrier on the Cu Chi-Tay Ninh Convoy escort through downtown Saigon.

Photographer: Unknown
Source: Sunny Saigon FB page