On the second day in Cambodia an AP reporter, photographer and I were taken to a NVA/VC training Camp in the jungle near the border with Vietnam.  The photographer was Henri Huet, well-known AP photographer who had covered the wars in Vietnam for many years, first with the French and then the Americans (http://www.apimages.com/Collection/Landing/Photographer-Henri-Huet-Vietnam-War/f8713143bd31444684a7db49d8846231).  Getting to the camp required a half days trek on a trail through the jungle terrain.  Just before we got to the camp the troops burned down a hooch similar to the one pictured here.  Their reasoning was that because it was so close to an NVA/VC  training camp its owners must have been sympathetic to the enemy.

Once we arrived at the camp, the AP reporter, Huet and myself walked about the camp.  Huet went immediately to a four foot deep burial pit hastily carved in the red clay where several enemy bodies lay rotting in the sun.  Walking up to the edge of the pit he began taking pictures.  A few minutes later we were shown personal artifacts of a former North Vietnamese Army soldier including a picture of Ho Chi Minh carefully protected in a plastic cover.  After this “photo op” we boarded a chopper back to the staging area in Vietnam.

Possessions of a former NVA soldier found at an enemy training camp in Cambodia 1970.