The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit


Most viewed - Michael P. Kurtgis
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MK263.jpgOut of uniform225 viewsGreat to get that uniform off and clean up.
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MK12.jpgOCS Classmate218 viewsLt Harry Kerestes - a classmate of OCS Class 33-67 of Ft. Sill, Okla. Many Arty OCS grads saw duty in Nam.
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MK-64.jpgDoc & POW214 viewsDoc watching over NVA prisoner.
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MK290.jpgAttack on The Oasis212 viewsThis is a trip flare tied off with bamboo strips where they tried to come "through the wire" in the Artillery area. The NVA and VC were also experts at defusing Claymore mines.
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MK9.jpgHoochmates210 views"Indigenous personnel" do the boot-shining.
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MK-62.jpgWounded NVA210 viewsCaptured NVA; left behind for us to find.
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MK293.jpgAttack on The Oasis210 viewsA "Duster", twin 40mm guns mounted on a chassis, hit by an RPG on the west side of the perimeter. Crew inside killed.
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MK292.jpgAttack on The Oasis209 viewsPolicing up the explosives in the wire where the three NVA Sapper assassins were killed. This was a diversion away from the main Attack on the Northwest Perimeter corner of the “Oasis”.
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MK17.jpgHere I Am205 viewsYours truly, Michael P. Kurtgis, "B" Battery, 2/9th, attached to "B" Company, 2/35th Inf Regt, July, 1968.
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MK306.jpgAttack on The Oasis204 viewsOne of the main objectives of the attack was the Hawk Missile Radar Battery (without the missiles) at the NW corner of the “Oasis”. We were using the radar to track Russian helicopters coming across the border to Plei Me.
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MK87.jpg"VC" Mosquito203 viewsGot bit by one of those "VC" mosquitoes and didn't know it. Five days later, I was gone from B-2-35. Off to the hospital at Nha Trang...around 18Sept68.
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MK-57.jpgThe Suspects202 viewsThese are "Yards" who were blacklisted as VC suspects.
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