MỘT CARIBOU ĐỔ HÀNG TẠI TRẠI LLĐB GIA NGHĨA (TỈNH QUẢNG ĐỨC). CÁC THÙNG MÀU ĐỎ ĐỰNG DẦU. SÂN BAY NÀY RẤT ĐỘC ĐÁO -- KHI NGƯỜI MỸ PHẢI CẮT BỎ ĐỈNH CỦA MỘT NGỌN ĐỒI NHỎ ĐỂ TRÁNH NGUY HIỂM CHO MỘT SÂN BAY DÀI 2.000 FEET CHO LOẠI MÁY BAY NÀY. 

Off loading at Gia Nghia after the first sortie of the day. Gia Nghia was the site of an Army Special Forces camp that needed the fuel we brought in the red drums. The airport was unique - they had      knocked the top off a small mountain to provide a generous (for a Caribou) 2000' foot dirt strip. The red soil visible in the foreground was typical of Central Vietnam and was called "laterite" because of its tendency to harden (laterize) into a rock-like surface once defoliated and exposed. When the Caribou's engines were reversed during landing at fields like this, the airplane would disappear into a large red cloud of dust.