I recently scanned Ray Irlbeck's military scrapbook and now I'm working on Allen Muhlbauer's military stuff. I sat down with Auggie the other day to interview him about his service and will be transcribing that digital audio soon...then I give him a rough draft to go over for corrections and changes.
This all takes time but to me so very well worth it to preserve the history of Manning's Veterans and citizens in general.
Once I finish scanning Auggie's pix, I'll have him sit down with me in front of my computer and we'll go over them to get some captions and more information...in the meantime here are some of Ray's and Allen's pix.

I always planned on visiting with Ray about his service but at the time I was working on WWII & Korean Veterans and always assumed there would be plenty of time for me to sit down with him - sadly that never happened.

Here are a few pix from Allen Muhlbauer's collection.

Allen Muhlbauer in Vietnam


One of the base camps in Vietnam

One of the problems I run into with almost everyone's collections/scrapbooks/pix, is that they are deteriorating.
So now is the time to scan them before they get worse.
Here is an example of the color-shifting and color-correction I made.

Original scan

Digitally enhanced and cleaned up.


4 Hueys coming in for a landing.


Huey taking off


Chinook landing - notice the manned weapon sticking out of the front left side hatch.


Inside a Huey while in flight


"Out in the bush"


Allen writing home.
I think this is one of the most amazing images captured that I've scanned.
The serenity of the moment while surrounded by the unknown ahead as an American Soldier serving in Vietnam.

That's it for now - back to scanning more of Auggie's pix.

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