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Re: 2006 Holloway pics
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: The terrain does not look right for Camp
: Holloway to me. it looks more like the old
: MACV compound. where is the deep valley
: directly west of the hangers? the deep pond?
: the hill looning north east. I saw a
: sattelite pic of the area recently and
: holloway was not there, much less built up.
: I think the commies are lying by at least
: 1000 yards.BT

Rob- except for all the new structures, it looks just right to me... I spent a lot of time at 71st with my ol' pal, and the view look just right from "approximately" there...his hootch was just inside the wire separating the 71st from those "big Ear" antennas.. and the highest part of the 71st compound... it commanded a nice view to the southeast.

The way I remember, the(equal-sided-looking-promininent peak- didn't they call it "Titty Mountain? in the bottom center distance of the pic, was just east of the river before you got to the Mang Yang, and south of QL 19, and appearing to the right of that one is Dragon Mountain.

also, the most pominent (and near) hill mass to the NE of the main hangars at Holloway was a couple of thusand meters out, and at their lower right edge, had a huge barren area.. I have some pics somewhere... I think that;s the one you were talking about... due west of the end of the Hollway compound, there was a low area, not quite a vally- between there and town. I have a couple of pics of that too- of couse, you saw it all from the air MUCH more than I did... (only a few times for me, and never directly over Camp Smith)

and the satphoto a while back looked like it was VERY-well vegetated ALL over- the rice paddy at the north, and slightly west of the old "Swamp" doesn't show all that well on the satphoto, to my memory of it... do you have a link for it? maybe another post of it would help..

lastly, the "pond" was northeast of the SE end of the active, no? Were you thinking Bien Ho lake? further north and to the west of Holloway, no?
lemme refer to some of my maps...

Map Junkie Lump

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