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Between Pleiku, in the Central Highlands, and the 1st Cavalry Division's
base camp, located at An Khe, in South Vietnam's Binh Dinh Province, Highway
19 crosses over steep, jungle covered mountains at the Mang Yang Pass.
This foreboding tangle of teak forest, barbed vines, and rocky ledges
provided welcomed sanctuary to the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), that
regularly ambushed U.S. Army supply convoys bound for Pleiku.
On occasion, combat operations were mounted to search out and destroy those NVA
forces in their stronghold. This small reconnaissance (recon) patrol had been
sent in to observe enemy presence and movement, to provide early warning.
A stay-behind ambush team (left for any possible NVA trailing them) is making
preparations, as the rest of the recon patrol quietly moves out. Like the much
feared Vietnamese/Asian tiger, these soldiers must move stealthily by day
and endure their nights in dense jungle thickets....NVA tactics in the NVA lair!
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*Please note*: Artist Frank Thomas' studio lithographic art print sales are discontinued from 10 March
2007 until 1 October of 2008. He and his wife are serving for eighteen months in the Ohio-Cleveland
Mission, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), at the Kirtland Historic Sites,
Kirtland, Ohio. He has set up his art studio and is producing additional LDS historical paintings at
that location. Rolled canvas art prints (only) are available and may be purchased by calling Frank at
(435) 406-9526 or contact by email wildgoose@crystalpeaks.com.
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