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December 1969

To be written


December 2

Ed Fortmiller returns to "The World" after a 14 month tour with the 24th Evac in Wards 9 & 10, Central Supply, and the OR.


December 11

CPT Donald Barnett, MSC, Detachment Commander, returns home.


December 25    

Christmas Day.  There were parties and Santa Claus.  If they wished, the nurses were allowed to wear stateside white uniforms.  Pictured here is 1LT Barbara Crookshank, with Debbie, a Vietnamese dietary worker.  Debbie married an American from Wards 5 & 6 and is living in the United States.  If you have further information about her, please forward the information to the Webmaster. (Sources:  Cindy Young and Barbara Crookshank))

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Courtesy Barbara Crookshank
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Another gathering on Ward 5:  From right to left:  LT Anne Dinger, MAJ George Yang (one of the neurosurgeons), SP5 Phil Nowakowski, and SP5 Jim Grey.

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Courtesy Cindy Young
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More Christmas of '69 links:

    Christmas Gathering on Wards 5 & 6

    Decorations and Staff on Wards 5 & 6

    Officers' Club decorated for Christmas 1969

    Nurses' Hootch #2 at Christmas 1969

    Orphans the 24th staff entertained on Christmas Day 1969

    The Bob Hope Christmas Show, Long Binh, 1969


December 31, 1969 - New Year's Eve    

    Here's a link to the AFVN's Top 100 songs of 1969.  It was played all the way to midnight, so if you were there and unless you were partying, you've probably heard this already.  


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