Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando Villela -Vietnam Veteran - 1968 - 1969

Fernando F. Villela - 1969

In the words of Fernando F. Villela - "In gear ready to go humping in boonies 10 to 20 clicks". Photograph of Fernando F. Villela during the Vietnam War.

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Fernando F. Villela - Vietnam - 1969

Fernando F. Villela laying down after a fire-fight from treeline snipers. Fernando F. Villela was in Vietnam from 1968 - 1969.

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Fernando F. Villela - Vietnam - 1969

Fernando F. Villela - Vietnam - 1969 "Just showered at bunker base,Dong Tam Mekong Delta Ben Treh Province. Once had to drink water from canals, as we ran out of clean drinking water. Just used one iodine pill to kill germs, ha"!

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Vietnam - 1969

Fernando Villela - Vietnam - 1969 "Early spring at base camp - outside bunker base - village kids visiting and selling us stuff as I displayed? Ha"!

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Fernando Villela - 1969 - Vietnam

Photograph taken of a friend while on a chopper - 1969 "Chopper ride into area to be cleared - Vietcong spotted"!

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Fernando Villela - Vietnam - 1969

Fernando Villela and his friends having fun - Vietnam - September 7, 1969.

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Fernando Villela - 1968

Fernando Villela - Fort Ord, California - night training - during a truck ride.

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Fernando Villela - Vietnam -1969

Fernando Villela was in Vietnam from 1968 - 1969. Visit of nurses at our bunker base, Bến Tre Province. "Some buddies around nurses - teaching us hygiene!" Bến Tre Province - Bến Tre is a coastal province in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, connected by a bridge to the busy market town of Mỹ Tho. Vàm Hồ Bird Sanctuary, with its waterways and native flora and fauna, is to the east. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=ben+tre+province

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Bronze Star - Fernando Villela - 1969

Nurses visiting our bunker base in Bến Tre Province in Vietnam. Teaching us about hygiene while in the jungle. Bến Tre is a coastal province in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, connected by a bridge to the busy market town of Mỹ Tho. Vàm Hồ Bird Sanctuary, with its waterways and native flora and fauna, is to the east. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=ben+tre+province

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Camranh Bay in Vietnam - Fernando Villela - 1969

Photograph: Overview of Cam ranh Bay in Vietnam - 1969. On April 3, 1975 North Vietnamese forces captured Cam Ranh Bay and all of its remaining facilities.

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Vietnam - 1969 Biên Hòa Province

Biên Hòa Province - Leisure gathering of platoon, after eating. Bunker base - Biên Hòa Province -bunker base camp.

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Fernando Villela Holding His Daughter - 1971

" Just before I got out of the Army". Fernando Villela holding his daughter Stephanie Villela - she is two years old.

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Vietnam - 1969 - Fernando Villela

"First Lieutenant in our company - real straight nice guy - in his bunker".

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Cam Ranh Bay - Vietnam - 1969

Cam Ranh Bay - Vietnam - 1969 Fernando Villela stationed in Cam Ranh Bay - Vietnam.

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Cam Ranh Bay - Vietnam - 1969

Fernando Villela - Cam Ranh Bay - new job as Artist/Illustrator - free weekend time.

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Vietnam - Fernando Villela - 1969

Spring 1969 - Dong Tam Bunker Base - amid trees. Fernando Villela in the year 1969 in Vietnam - he is a citizen of El Paso, Texas.

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Vietnam - 1969

"Filling sandbags with kids helping - would give them chocalate candy or American money".

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Fernando Villela - February - 1969

Fernando Villela: With All My Love, "Honey, Rosa, this picture was taken when I had about a month in Vietnam by a friend. He just got them back so I brought it from him for 45 cents, ha, ha! Honey, here you can see how much I think of you and how I use my free time. The kids that wash our boots they call me, "Rosa" and everybody else that can't pronounce my name".

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Fernando Villela - 1969 - Vietnam

Fernando Villela - 1969 "Vietnamese at work near village five clicks"

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Fernando Villela - Vietnam - 1969

"Leisure time back in camp, displaying my "short" walking cane w/50 caliber chinese round on tip".

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