Christian Zimmerman, son of Maj Eugene Zimmerman, shares selected excerpts from his father’s Vietnam diary, providing insights and sketches from his service at the Da Nang Airbase.

Born to a hard life in Oklahoma during the dust bowl and unable to find work, Archie Mull joined the US Army Air Corps, where his gunnery career ended with a stay in a German prisoner of war camp until the end of WWII.