| PHOTO ALBUM 12 |
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| Special visitors at FB A-4 (Con Thien) December 1970 |
| A visit from a couple of "Doughnut Dollies" Volunteer American Red Cross workers that made regular visits to the firebases. One of the young ladies wears a Christmas apron since they came to bring some Christmas cheer. Wearing the orange hat is Don Gazzaway of the 8-4th Arty. |
| Brigadier General Wolff, Commanding General, US Army Security Agency, Pacific, in front of the 407th's Operations bunker. Left to right: CPT Osmundsen, 1LT Moore, BG Wolff, LTC Alderman (CO, 8th RRFS), 1LT Adams |
| Christmas Day Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., the Navy, CINCPAC (Commander In Chief, Pacific), spends the holiday visiting with troops. Adm. McCains' father, John S. McCain, Sr, was also a 4-star Admiral, who witnessed the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 1945. The only father-son 4-star officers in US Naval history. At this time, Adm. McCain, Jr's son, later to become a US Senator from Arizona, had been a POW for almost three years. |
| Adm. McCain sips on a hot Miller's as he mingles and talks with the troops. It was reported that the Admiral said the following during his visit: "Those hippie sons-a-bitches are carrying signs back in the states that say make love, not war. Well, you men can do both, fight all day and f--- all night." |