Table of Contents
Updated Links in Orange
Vietnam Introduction
Vietnam Map
Vietnam History
Two of my Family
John Kerry - Capital Hill
Letters from PFC James Fortune
Jim Fortune at Fort Knox, KY
Mechanics Training
Jim Fortune ~ Fort Sill, OK
Jim may be going to Cambodia
17 Days Till I can Come Home
Education & Training
Stopping in Tokyo, Japan
Operation Focus Retina
Jim Fortune in Korea
Easter Sunday 1969
Letter to home ~ 4 May 1969
Spring Day - 1969
Pictures From Korea
More Pictures
Promotion SP/4
Furlough August 1969
Excited to Come Home
Saturday Night in Korea
Jim Fortune Mechanic
Hot Summer Day in Korea
How Long In Vietnam
Seoul Korea Zoo
Furlough Delayed
Depressed and Lonely in Korea
Why Jim Wants... Vietnam
James Fortune SP/4
Jim longs to go home
Jim plans to go back to school
Jim has a Birthday
Jim Buys a Camera
Jim is Going to Vietnam
Jim Going Home in 25 Days
An Early Christmas
Philippines Stopover
Jim is in Vietnam Now
Military-Industrial... Warning
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Igloo White
What is PTSD?
South Vietnam December 1969
Battle of the Crescent
Fallen Comrades
Operation Fresh Start
R & R in Bangkok
Invasion of Cambodia
Cambodia May-June 1970
Taking it Easy in Cambodia
Jim Injured in Cambodia
Two Purple Heart Awards
Sketch of Jim Fortune
Jim's Vietnam War Awards
Blackhorse Trooper
Back to America
Concluding Chapter
Jim Fortune ~ Remembering
Vietnam Letters
The Story Continues
Picture of Jim Fortune in June 1970. Jim's 2/11th ACR was part of President Nixon's incursion troops that were sent across the border into Cambodia to try and stop the flow of supplies by the North Vietnamese. Certainly a well deserved rest for all the battles that faced Jim & his comrades the two month they would be in Cambodia.
Thanks WTXL Channel 27 ~ ABC Tallahassee, Florida for including my dad's cousin's Leonard Tomaszewski's D-Day account. If you want to hear more and read his story, start here: D-Day.
In this section I have started a 'Letters From Vietnam' part to the website. It has been my goal from the onset of this project that I offer a forum where people can learn the history of the world we live in as experienced by those that lived and fought in the various conflicts of the past 100 years.