[Leica] RETROSPECT 23

[Jim Nichols]

Hi Bill,

You have certainly led a full life.  Thanks for sharing your adventures 
with us.

On 3/13/20 10:43 AM, Bill Clough via LUG wrote:
>   In late 1966 I was sent on temporary active duty to Thailand, and thus
> began the adventure of my life. I was smuggled into the country by the U.S.
> Navy with ambassadorial approval, as an enlisted sailor given the authority
> of a Lt. Colonel and given Air America at my disposal.
>
>     All this to produce a slide-show documentary on Navy Seabee civic action
> programs in rural Thailand that was the first line of defense against
> communist guerrilla excursions into the country. The documentary was to be
> shown before a congressional funding committee.
>
>     I was 26.
>
>     Nothing I have done since has matched this journalistic adventure,
> including the White House.
>
>     One strong facet of the programs was medical. These children raced after
> the medical corpsman’s jeep as he left a border village in southeast
> Thailand.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Thai+village+children_+January+1967.jpg.html
>
>
> _Bill
>
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA