Roger Lee Knight
Knight
Roger Lee
IN
Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Persian Gulf War, 1991
Army; Army
Company D, 169th Engineer Battalion, 159th Engineer Group, 20th Engineer Brigade; Plans and Operations, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Department of the Army
Captain; Colonel
Dinh Quan, Vietnam; III Corps, Vietnam; Long Binh, Vietnam; also: Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia; Washington, DC
Unknown
Veteran
"Getting equipment out of the mud on Long Binh perimeter became one of my specialties…" (Memoir, page 14)
As a member of an Army construction battalion serving in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, Colonel Roger Knight took part in a critical element of the war effort, though one that is often overlooked in contemporary accounts: the building of roads, bridges, and buildings throughout South Vietnam. His VHP collection features meticulous documentation of his time with the 169th Engineer Battalion, including a memoir, over 500 photographs, and a compilation of original military documents. Through his reminiscences, based on his original diary entries, and the images he captured on film, he presents a view of the day-to-day life at Long Binh as well as a variety of construction projects along highway QL-20. Following his time in country, he continued his career in the Army Reserve, also serving in the Logistics Operation Center at the Pentagon for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991.
Roger Knight in Vietnam
Vietnam War: Looking Back
Bien Hoa Street
90th Replacement Battalion
90th Replacement Battalion
90th Replacement Battalion
90th Replacement Battalion
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Hawkins and First Lieutenant Knight
Orderly Supply Barracks
Vietnamese Laborers
First Lieutenant Salamone and Specialist Four Convery
D Company Area in Long Binh
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Hawkins Specialist Five Smith
First Lieutenants Shows and Reilly
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Tom Hawkins personnel
Long Binh Perimeter
Long Binh Perimeter
VN Laborers Going Home
D Company Awards Formation
D Company Awards Ceremony
D Company Awards Ceremony
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Arquez Maintenance
Chief Warrant Officers Hawkins, Reed, Watson
Long Binh Aerial View
Long Binh Aerial View
Long Binh Post
93rd Motor Pool
Helicopter Ride
Pay & Mail Call
Near Nui Chau Chan
Near Xuan Loc
Nui Chua Chan -Signal Mt
Nui Chua Chan
Nui Chua Chan
Nui Chua Chan -Signal Mt
Nui Chua Chan -Signal Mt
Hwy QL-1 by Xuan Loc
USARV Hill
USARV Hill
USARV Hill
USARV Hill
Water Supply Stands
Helicopter Placement
Water Tower 101st
Water Tower 101st
Miss America USO Show
Stuck D7E Dozer
Long Binh Stuck Equipment
Long Binh Stuck Equipment
Long Binh Stuck Equipment
Long Binh Stuck Equipment
Long Binh Stuck Equipment
Long Binh Stuck Equipment
Captain Bob Matthews
Saigon 1969
Saigon Docks
North of Saigon on QL-1
Water Buffalo
Buddhist Temple
Buddhist Temple
Vietnam War Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial
Saigon
1969
Saigon Traffic
Saigon
Saigon
Saigon Docks
1969
Saigon Docks
1969
Saigon
Saigon
Saigon Docks
Presidential Palace
Water Fountain
Water Fountain
Funeral Hearse
Water Tower
Operations sergeant
Ho Nai Church
Ho Nai Village
Ho Nai Village QL-1
Another Church
ARVN Soldiers in Ho Nai
Ho Nai
Ho Nai Bicycle Shop
Ho Nai Village
Lambretta
QL-1 past Ho Nai
Along QL-1 APC
Along QL-1
Battery Billboard QL-1
French Compound QL-1
Beginning of QL-20 Sign
QL 20 Speed Sign
Grotto
Grotto
Grotto
Church
Along QL-20 Countryside
Along QL-20 ARVN Pick Up
Along QL-20 APC
Along QL-20 10T Dump Trucks
Civic Action-School
Civic Action-Church
Banana Quarry Drilling
Banana Quarry Drilling
Banana Quarry Loading
Banana Quarry
Banana Quarry
Banana Quarry Rock Crusher
Banana Quarry Rock Crusher
Asphalt Plant
5/1970
Banana Quarry Asphalt Plant
Banana Quarry Asphalt Plant
Banana Quarry Asphalt Plant
Gia Kiem church
Banana Quarry
Fixing Crane
Shell Station along QL20
South into Gia Kiem
Rubber Plantation XA Binh Hoa
Gia Kiem Traffic
Gia Kiem Traffic
Gia Kiem church
Gia Kiem church
Gia Kiem church
Gia Kiem Construction
Gia Kiem Children
Gia Kiem Sign
Gia Kiem Walking Pig
Gia Kiem Cemetery
Gia Kiem village
Gia Kiem village
Gia Kiem village
Gia Kiem village
Gia Kiem village
Gia Kiem village
Gia Kiem Fish Market
Gia Kiem market
Gia Kiem market
Gia Kiem market
Gia Kiem village
Gia Kiem Homes
Gia Kiem church
C Company Road
Gia Kiem Bypass Traffic
Buffalo Cart along QL20
Traffic on bypass
Bypass Road No of Gia Kiem
A Company paving in C Company Area of Responsibility (AOR)
First Lieutenant Bill Brodsky
Sergeant First Class Joe Brown
First Lieutenant Doug Harry
Scraper Beginning of D Company Area of Responsibility (AOR)
Beginning of Area of Responsibility (AOR)
Scraper Dropping Load
Beginning of Area of Responsibility (AOR)
Scraper Beginning of Area of Responsibility (AOR)
First Peneprime
Positioning Paver
Beginning Paving
First asphalt D Company Area of Responsibility (AOR)
A Co Paving Train
First Paving
Lieutenant Bowman, Captain Harvey
First Paving D Company Area of Responsibility (AOR)
First Paving at D Company
First Paving at D Company
10 ton LOC trucks
LOC 10 ton Dump Trucks
Ambush Alley to Base Cam
Sergeant Weaver Clearing Brush
Preparing Culvert Bed
Ambush Alley 11/1969
Crane Placement
Ambush Alley Culvert
Ambush Alley Culvert 1st Platoon D Company
Ambush Alley Culvert
Compacting Culvert
Ambush Alley Culvert
Triple 60 282'
First Lieutenant Ed Hopkins
Lieutenant Brown Brodsky Sergeant First Class Brown
Accident
Wrecked Log Truck
Wrecked Dump Truck
Accident
Ambush Alley
Base No Ambush Alley Headwall
North Ambush Alley Headwall 2nd Platoon
Ambush Alley Headwall
North Ambush Alley Headwall
Pouring North Headwall
Ambush Alley
Ambush Alley
Ambush Alley Culvert
Completed Ambush Alley
Ambush Alley Briefing
Battalion Photographer
Commanders Briefing
Commanders Briefing
View from Huey
Popping Smoke to Land
VIP Helicopter
Sheep foot Roller
Dozer pushing Scraper
North of Ambush Alley
Bulldozer North of Ambush Alley
North of Ambush Alley
Cutting Ditches
Cutting Ditches
North of Ambush Alley
North of Ambush Alley
Paving No Ambush Alley
Paving No Ambush Alley
North of Ambush Alley QL20
D Company Equipment
In Front of Base Camp
Grader Ripping Upgrade
D7E bulldozer ripping road
Ripping Upgrade
Road Upgrade Resection
Road Upgrade Resection
Staff Sergeant Stafford
Culvert Extensions
Culvert Placed
ARVN Artillery at D Company
D Company Mortar Pit Mess Hall
D Company
D Company Base Camp Commanding Officer Office
D Company Base Camp 09/1969
Building Base Camp
D Company Base Camp 09/1969
D Company Base Camp
Commanding Officer Office Opens Tent
93rd Dump trucks and tents
D Company Base Camp
09/1969
D Company Base Camp
09/1969
D Company Base Camp
09/1969
D Company Base Camp
09/1969
Base Camp Village
09/1969
2d Platoon area and village
D Company Base Camp
D Company Base Camp
Company Base Camp latrine
Company Base Camp crane
D Company Base Camp
D Company Base Camp
Dust off Medical Evacuation
Behind Mess Hall
D Company Mortar pit Command Bunker
Base Camp Sunset
D Company Base Camp
D Company Base Camp from Helicopter
D Company Base Camp from air
D Company Base Camp
D Company Base Camp
01/28/1970
Peneprime and Assembly Yard
Camp Entrance
Chaplin Basil Ballard
Thompson Harris Convery
Operations Tent
Tent Airing Out
North from Water Tower
Evening Sky
11/1969
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Wessels
Fixing Dozer Track
Repairing Dozer Track
Red Cross Donut Dollies
Crouch, Grahm, Advisor Harvey
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Davis –Maintenance
Brodsky McKinley
Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) Radio Station
Lynn Hooch Maid
Farber McGarry Matthews
USO Show Magician
Arquez Knight Harvey
D Company Party
D Company Party
D Company Party
D Company Party
D Company Party
D Company Party
D Company Party
Dinh Quan Hill Song
Chaplin Ballard
Nighttime Flare
Tree via Starlight Scope
Concrete Plant at Base Camp
Kiowa Helicopter
Kiowa Controls
First Lieutenant Doug Harry
ARVN Advisor
Pop Smoke for Dust Off
Medevac Helicopter
Medevac Helicopter
Medevac
Headquarters Platoon Bunker
Headquarters Platoon Bunker
Bunker 14 Collapse
07/1970
Vietnam Sunset
08/1969
Kids by Bridge
Kids by La Nga River
Kids by La Nga River
La Nga Bridge ARVN Compound
La Nga River Bridge Beautiful
Bridge Guard Station
La Nga Bridge looking south
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Wessels on Scraper
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Wessels on Scraper
Scraper Crossing River
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Wessels on Scraper
M4T6 Flying Ferry
Flying Ferry at La Nga River
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
First Lieutenant Roger Knight
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
Bridge Traffic
MT46 Trestle Bridge
155 Howitzer Bridge Traffic
South Tower Float Bridge
Tower for Bridge Cable
South Tower Float Bridge
South Tower Float Bridge
South Tower Float Bridge
Crane Placing North Tower
North Tower Float Bridge
North Tower Float Bridge
Second Platoon
Placing Panels
Placing Panels
M4T6 Float Bridge Floats
I-Beams on Panels
Major Walsh Captain McKinley
M4T6 Float Bridge Float
Loading Float
M4T6 Float Bridge
Lieutenant Hank Landau
South Side of Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
First Lieutenant Bill Brodsky
Second Platoon Bulking
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Trestle Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
Bridge at High Water
Almost Completed Bridge
M4T6 Float Bridge
Statue realigned road
QL20 North of River
QL20 North of River
Existing Culvert
Trench Cut North of River
Crane Placing Culvert
Culvert 2-60 inch Second Platoon
Culvert 2-60 inch Second Platoon
Culvert 2-60 inch Second Platoon
Culvert 2-60 inch Second Platoon
Culvert 2-60 inch Second Platoon
Culvert 2-60 inch Second Platoon
Cattle
Countryside
Countryside
To Dinh Quan Accident
To Dinh Quan
To Dinh Quan
Dinh Quan on QL-20
Dinh Quan on QL-20
Dinh Quan Hill Looking North
Dinh Quan Hill Bypass
Dinh Quan Hill
Dinh Quan Hill
Dinh Quan Hill
Dinh Quan Kids
Dinh Quan Kids
Dinh Quan Kids
Dinh Quan Hill
Dinh Quan Hill
Dinh Quan Hill
Dinh Quan Hill
Dinh Quan, Rock City
Dinh Quan, Rock City
Dinh Quan Culvert Headwall
Completed Headwall
Second Platoon Extensions
Culvert Extensions
D Company Rock Crusher
D Company Crusher Dinh Quan
Dinh Quan
District Capital
Dinh Quan on QL-20
Dinh Quan House
Dinh Quan Voting
Dinh Quan Going to Vote
Dinh Quan
Dinh Quan Monkey Head
Dinh Quan House on Rocks
Dinh Quan Charcoal Oven
Dinh Quan ARVN Equipment
Fire Support Base (FSB) Nancy Dinh Quan
Dinh Quan FSB Nancy
Dinh Quan FSB Nancy
Dinh Quan FSB Nancy
155 Millimeter Howitzers
Dinh Quan
Culvert First Platoon
Culvert Headwalls
Dinh Quan Houses
Dinh Quan Traffic
Vietnam Log Truck
Dinh Quan Flood
Dinh Quan
Dinh Quan Aerial View
Dinh Quan Aerial View
Culvert Extension Work
Second Platoon Headwall Form
QL 20 North of Dinh Quan
Upgrade Project
Looking South Dinh Quan
43rd Dump Truck Company
43rd Dump Truck Company
43rd Dump Truck Co Upgrade Project
Upgrade Project
Flight of Huey helicopters
Flight of Huey helicopters
Upgrade Project
Vietnamese Traffic
Vietnamese Traffic
Vietnamese Traffic
Teakwood Forest
South of Teak Wood Forest
National Teak Wood Forest
Teak Wood Forest
Teak Wood Forest
Teak Wood Forest
Trai Lam Cay Village
Water Buffalo
Trai Lam Cay Village
Trai Lam Cay Village
Road by Trai Lam Cay
Trai Lam Cay Village
Road by Trai Lam Cay
Road by Trai Lam Cay
Phuong Long Village
Phuong Long aerial view
Phuong Long aerial view
By Phuong Long
Pouring Bridge Foundation
B Company Bridge Foundation
Foundation and Stringers
B Company Bridge Phuong Long
Completed Bridge
Completed Bridge
B Company Rock Crusher
B Company Concrete Batch Plant
B Company Concrete Plant
B Company Concrete Plant
ARVN Compound
ARVN Compound
B Company base camp
ARVN soldier
Castle in the Sky B Company
B Company Area
B Company Base Camp QL20
B Company Area
B Company Bunker Construction
B Company in the distance
B Company Base Camp Motor Pool
B Company Area
B Company Area
B Company Area
B Company Area
B Company Area
B Company 169th EB Base Camp
B Company Motor Pool
B Company 108 inch Culvert
B Company 108 inch Culvert
II Corps Area QL20
II Corps Area
B Company Area
B Company Area
II Corps Area
Banana Pass II Corps
Promoted Captain Knight
Promoted Captain Knight
Last Road Photo from QL-20
Ben Hoa AFB Going Home
Okinawa Freedom Bird
Vietnam Coastline
Pearl Harbor Hawaii
Honolulu Hawaii
Diamond Head Hawaii
7/1970
Awards and Decorations
Awards and Decorations
Background Memoir and Notes
Background Memoir and Notes
169th Engineer Battalion Document Collection 1944-1999
application/pdf
66
Delta Company, Vietnam, June 1969 - July 1970
application/pdf
28
Memoirs of a LOC Lizard
application/pdf
17
Memoirs of Colonel Roger L. Knight
application/pdf
103
Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.84060/
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2023-10-05
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