
63) Binh Thuy Air Base Perimeter: Charlie Tower post silhouetted against flares.
Perimeter floodlights illuminate tall
grass and bamboo and push back the tide of night.
C-47 Spooky landing.
Photo by Dennis Hutchings. Composite by Don Poss.
64) Binh Thuy Air Base Perimeter: This is the actual night-photo of composite #64 above.
The three small white streaks of light, near the drifting parachute flare,
is actually a C-47 Spooky
landing,
with the camera's lens time-exposure streaking its landing lights. Photo by Dennis Hutchings.

65) Binh Thuy Air Base Perimeter: This is a photo taken from approximately the same location as photo #65 above (see the
SP
Tower, center-horizon, just to right of the paved road). It is a "dusk" composite from the below photo (#67) taken during broad daylight.
Photo by Dennis Hutchings. Composite by Don Poss.

66) Binh Thuy Air Base Perimeter: This is the original photo the above composite graphics are based on, and taken during daylight.
Note that lights are beginning to come on in expectation of the coming night.
Photo by Dennis Hutchings. 1969-1970.

67) My town Port Royal had a 200th Anniversary Celebration
on October 29th 2012- I marched with "Fanny" in fatigues

68) Dennis "Hutch" Hutchings- Time marches on!
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