Hi, My Name is George Stoken

I served in the 45th Surgical Hospital from day one when we landed off of the U.S.S. GEIGER.
I have some pictures I took with my 35 millimeter camera when I was in the 45th.
I was with the hospital for 11 months 18 days.
I worked in surgery as a 91D20 Operating room technician.

Nurses Capt. Fugowski and LT. Batoog

Gary P. Wratten Road Sign

Nancy Sinatra coming out of a ward

Vietnam General Thieu (not sure of the spelling)

Sunday Lunch

General Westmoreland and Major Lyons

morning roll call

45th Surgical Hospital sign

Nancy Sinatra coming out of the Nurses quarters

Cardinal Spellman

Gee, Crill, Clubb, Mcbride (clean weapons once a week)

General Westmoreland with a patient

Burning the cans

Building shower

Outdoor Lunch

Martha Raye

Vietnamese "workers"

Musty (dog given to us from the Phillipine unit in Tay Ninh)

Nancy Sinatra interviewed in the nurses quarters

Cement Crew

Applying a cast in the O/R

First picture of us in Vietnam after getting off of the U.S.S. Geiger

Building the enlisted men's hooch

Rifle practice at the base of Black Virgin mountain

Inflating and setting up one of the hospital wards.

Base of Black Virgin mountain looking up

Continue to build after a heavy rain storm

We had to do KP back then

Setting up another ward

Filling the outhouse cans with diesel fuel

Westmoreland again with the chief of the nurses (forgot the name)

Attaching a tarp to the finished hooch

Thanksgiving day menu

Christmas day menu

Original list of the 45th Surgical Hospital Personnel Roster

Filling sand bags

Time out for a picture

Sunday afternoon free time mixer

Beer run

Supply tent wind and rain damage

Supply tent wind and rain damage

Building frame before storm

Building frame after storm

Chaplain and 3 O/R nurses entertaining

Some of the troops dressed up for bathing suit contest

U.S.S. GREIGER. Ship that took 45th to Vietnam (30 days on board)

Last site of land for a while

Out in the Pacific Ocean

Not much to do on board but stay on deck

Cao-Dai temple inside looking at the big eye

Pillars inside the temple

Volleyball match between 45th and Pillipine unit

Received 45 letters from school kids in Pittsburgh

Partial Body cast

Surgeons at work

More work by the Surgeons

Cook making up a delicious meal

Another look at the Black Virgin Mountain

45th Surgical Hospital First Christmas card (front cover)

45th Surgical Hospital First Christmas card (inside cover)

Taking some more pictures

Litter patrol every morning

Medical waste for the hospital

building a culvert

another view of Black Virgin Mountain

Picture after a dusty jeep ride

Cecil Clubb in front of Operating Room 1

opening crates for the hospital

life preserver practice on U.S.S. Geiger

trying to find a radio station on board (we did find Hawaii)

Entering harbor in the Philipines

Tugboat in the harbor

Entering the Philipines harbor

not much to do on board ship

all dressed up and ready to go

We did a lot of KP

backetball in leisure time

building more hooch's

applying the tarp

filling sandbags (there was a lot of that)

relaxing leisure time

cookout for some holiday

stirring the cans

KP is a lot of fun

checked out one of the helicopters parked across the road

My view of Nancy Sinatra's appearance (Tay Ninh Rice Bowl)

Front of Coa - Dai Temple

Inside Temple Showing Columns

Boys Outside of Temple

Late Night Snack At Mess Hall

Outside Meal

Helicopters In Formation

Helicopter Flyby with Smoke Streams

Helicopter Flyby with Smoke Streams

Another Black Virgin Picture

Looked at this every Day

Outside Get Together

Outside Cookout

Litter Patrol Dog (MUSTY) In Charge

More Litter Patrol

My Favorite Detail Loved the Smell of Diesel in the Morning

Our Chapel

Just Hanging Around

Montagnard Fighters

Port Courage (F Troop)

Sample of Laundry Slip (Phong-Coc Laundry Service)

Down Town Tay Ninh City

Down Town Tay Ninh City

Down Town Tay Ninh City

Down Town Tay Ninh City

Down Town Tay Ninh City

Down Town Tay Ninh City

Montganard Fighters with their children
waiting for a plane

Cecil Clubb

Down Town Tay Ninh City

Martha Raye

Martha Raye

Daddy Gee

One of our guys with
Vietnamese workers

Cecil Clubb behind the Latrine

Cecil Clubb

Sweeping Out the Dust

Mc Bride Flores and Other

Mc Bride and Our Mailman

Clubb and Gee cleaning the Operating Room

Doctors at Work

Vietnamese Workers

Vietnamese Workers

Inside the Tent

Passerelli and Friend inside the Tent

Showing the Latest Movie

Another Cookout

Sandbag Problem

Saigon River from Helicopter

Inspection Time

My Favorite View in Vietnam

When we crossed the 180 Meridian
on the USS GIEGER they gave us this Paper

Weekly Bulletin 45th Surgical Hospital 1/10/67 Page1

Page 2 Read Number 4

Me getting ready to meet Nancy Sinatra

On the Bus in San Francisco going to the U.S.S. GEIGER

In the harbor Getting ready to go under the Golden Gate Bridge

Soldiers dressed in bathing suits for a beauty!!! contest

After meeting Namcy

Martha Raye anwering questions

Burning the cans

Leisure time to read a book

Can't get enough of the Black Virgin Mountain

One of the first pictures after
getting off of the ship in Viet-Nam

Long distance look at the 45th

Mountain and showers

Operating Room setup and lots of rain

Shooting rifle at range at the base of the Black Virgin mountain

Shoting rifle at tange at the base of the Black Virgin mountain

Downtown Tay-Nihn

Tent after storm/Helicopter, Mountain, clouds, Clothes on Line

Mountain, Clouds, Helicopter

Helicopter Pilot in the air from behind

Downtown Tay-Nihn

Boy giving a salut at Coa Dai temple

Snow cap on the Mountain?????

Phllipine musicians entertaining

Phillipine unit sign

Big guns to protect us

Dressed up for surgery

Appendix on the table

More Surgery pictures

More Surgery pictures

I found this. Did anybody else get one of these
ink drawings on a linen hanky?

View from Air Siagon River

More views from the Air

Dignitry Plane at Tay Ninh Airport

helicopter landing

our hooch's with personal flags raised

5 helicopters ready to land

ammunition sandbagged at the base of Black Virgin mountain

wider shot base of mountain

long view of hospital

looking up from the base of the mountain

armored personel carriers and tank

downtown Tay Ninh

Montgnards waiting for plane at the airport

water buffalo ?? in field

Tay Ninh cemetary

shooting range at the base of the mountain

hooches, basketball playing, helicopter landings

wide shot of hospital

Tay Ninh POW compound

wind damage to tent

burning of the cans

Martha Raye leaving the stage

another picture of the mountain (what a site to see every day)

refreshment time

hospital cafeteria

Martha Raye looking my way

Vietnamese workers with a friend

helicopters parked

that is Nancy Sinatra behind the hat

Nancy Sinatra doing an interview in the nurses quarters

Musty our dog donated by the Philippine unit

Happy ? Vienamese workers

Musty and Cecil Clubb

First week at Tay Ninh trying to build the hospital and hooch's

Airplane C-123 of C-130 at the airport

Vietnamese children

downtown Tay Ninh

going down to the outdoor showers - 1/2 mile away

building the hooch's

taking a break from building the hooch's

hooch's

Tay Ninh cemetary and Black Virgin mountain

work crew

rainbow near our base

hooch's coming along fine

view from the boat in the Philippine

land at last

muscle behind the operation of the hospital

muscle behind the operation of the hospital

gasoline storage

close-up of helicopter

timeout for a break between construction

looks like more shower time

muddy mess

closer to land

view of out ship on deck

almost there

LARGE GUN ON BASE

LARGE GUN AND MOUNTAIN

SOLDIERS COMING BACK FROM PATROL

MORE GUNS SHOOTING

ANOTHER TANK TYPE WEAPON

MORE GUNS SHOOTING

GUN AND MOUNTAIN

ANOTHER SHOT OF WEAPON AND MOUNTAIN

FRAME AND CLUBB

VOLLEYBALL (OUR UNIT AGAINST THE Philipine unit)

VIETNAMESE HELPING TO BUILD THE HOOCH'S

3 GUYS ON A BUN BARREL NAMED CANDY

GUN BARRELS CYCLOPS 2 AND CYCLOPS 5

BULL RUN TANK

LIVE EXPLOSIVES

MOTAR SETUP

ENTRANCE GATE

CAO DAI TEMPLE EXTERIOR

EXTERIOR FRONT DOOR

CLOSEUP OF THE EXTERIOR DOOR

STATUES INSIDE TEMPLE

LOOKING OUT THE FRONT DOOR FROM THE INSIDE

LOOKING DOWN THE AISLE OF THE TEMPLE

TEMPLE PRIESTS

ALTAR

ANOTHER VIEW FROM THE SECOND FLOOR

CEILING DECORATIONS

DECORATIONS AROUND THE ALTAR

CHAIRS

EYE ON THE GLOBE

OFFERINGS FOR THE ALTAR

SANDBAGGED GUN

TANK SIGN

MORE TANKS

ANETHESIOLOGIST IN THE OPERATING ROOM

CLAMPING DURING AN OPERATION

LOOKING FOR THE PROBLEM

INSTRAMENTS AND DOCTORS

ASSISTING IN THE OPERATION

IN HAPPIER TIMES

VIETNAMESE WOMEN WORKERS

HOOCH'S AND MOUNTAIN