0661-VTN-12/2013
William C. Gifford, Jr.

[661-2] - Claude and his mother, Marva

[661-3] - Claude and his father, William, Sr. in Flagstaff, Arizona

[661-4] - Claude, age 3, with his mother, Marva, and father, William, Sr.

[661-5] - Claude with his dog, Spot in 1949

[661-6] - Claude with his stepfather, Frank Tuminello, and his neice, Debbie. Shreveport, LA

[661-7] - William Claude Gifford, Jr., 1961

[661-8] - Claude with his 1956 International pickup truck in April, 1965

[661-9] - Claude at the Shreveport Bus Station waiting for a bus to Fort Polk after being inducted into the army, April 1969.

[661-10] - Claude, with white paper in his hand, at the bus station in Shreveport, April 1969.

[661-11] - 1965. Claude with his grandmother Sheloma Hill.

[661-12] - Inside the 37th Med E. R. Bunker, Vietnam.

[661-13] - 37th Medical Company, Vietnam.

[661-14] - Claude at Quan Loi

[661-15] - 37th Med Hq. The first building is the headquarters, the rest are barracks.

[661-16] - The results of a rocket attack on the Service Men's Club near the 37th Med headquarters

[661-17] - Claude adjusting the drip on a Vietnamese POW.

[661-18] - Personnel from the 37th Med unloading a wounded soldier from a UH-1

[661-19] - Five S.D.A.'s at the 37 Med: Unknown, Holtry, Claude, Humphry, Mell.

[661-20] - Another photo of the Service Men's Club after the rocket attack.

[661-21] - Claude in his hootch reading a letter from home.

[661-22] - Claude riding behind Lt. Cambria who sitting in his half-track behind two .50 cal machine guns. A medic always had to ride with the commanding officer.

[661-23] - View from the edge of the company area at Quan Loi through the barbed wire defense line.

[661-24] - Chinook helicopter picking up a water trailer at Quan Loi in 1970.

[661-25] - Soldiers returning to Quan Loi after laying out Claymore mines on one of "Charlie's" trails. 1970

[661-26] - Looking for Charlie

[661-27] - Soldiers from Quan Loi on patrol, 1970

[661-28] - On patrol. Henry, the driver, is on top wearing a black shirt.

[661-29] - Infantry soldiers hitching a ride on Claude's tank

[661-30] - Montagnard villiage

[661-31] - Passing through a Montagnard villiage

[661-32] - Infantry "Grunts"

[661-33] - On patrol. Claude on the right with an ax, Big John inside and Henry, a Navajo Indian from Arizona, on the left reading his mail.

[661-34] - "Mad Minute" at Quan Loi, 1970

[661-35] - Claude (right) with unknown soldier, looking through the back door of headquarters platoon track. He was head medic of G Troop at this time.

[661-36] - Sheridan tank destroyed by a land mine. Vietnam, 1970

[661-37] - Another tank damaged by a land mine. Vietnam, 1970

[661-38] - Unidentified soldiers searching for land mines by hand. Vietnam, 1970

[661-39] - Vietnam, 1970. Tank from unidentifed unit runs over a land mine (second tank from bottom) and a Dustoff chopper has been called in to evacuate the wounded.

[661-40] - Claude riding in the back of his "track."

[661-41] - Two soldiers using their knives to dig out a land mine. Vietnam, 1970

[661-42] - DD-214

[661-43] - In Memory of

[661-44] - Mess Hall at the 37th Medical Company, attached to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment at Quan Loi, Vietnam, 1970.

[661-45] - Claude and Mary Louise, 2005

[661-46] - Claude and Mary Louise, 1995

[661-47] - Claude and Mary Louise, 1994

[661-48] - Claude with his 1956 International pickup truck, April 1965.