Unbelievable Monsters In Vietnam
South Vietnam was hot, humid and during the monsoon season as wet as you can imagine. The further South you went in the Country, the more extreme all of this weather became. Out in the field we had to deal with many kinds of critters, snakes, rats, flying biting bugs as well as a variety of insects the size of which many of us had never seen before:
I laid a pack of cigarettes next to some of the critters to take this picture, most of these were almost as large, or in some cases larger than the pack, monsters for sure!
Gary Levinson, 1st Battalion, 11th Artillery, 9th Infantry Division, Vietnam 1966-1967