The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit


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JCook84.JPGBomb Craters115 viewsTaken at LZ Cat - you can see the bomb craters here. Photo taken from the back door of a Chinook.
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JCook104.JPGTea Plantation115 viewsPart of Tea Field
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JCook-106.JPGA Visitor115 viewsThis is a "throw-back". Too small for dinner.
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JCook-107.JPG8-inch Howitzer114 viewsThere was an 8 in battery set up about 5 miles from our Base Camp.
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JCook68.JPGBase Camp Motor Pool113 viewsBoy, I thought we were getting pretty fancy!
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JCook-125.JPGPFC Lawrence Bentman113 viewsPFC Lawrence Bentman joins me on an R&R trip to Taipei.
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JCook81.JPGThe L-19112 viewsOne of the US Army's last pieces of fixed-wing aircraft. Used as a spotter, carrying Air FOs who guided battery registrations and targets-of-opportunity. We had one crash on the runway narrowly missing an Ammo Truck.
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JCook99.JPGCaptured rice carriers112 viewsYoung prisoners. They were told not to talk, but they are violating that order. See "Tour of Duty - Memories" for the whole story.
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JCook-120.JPGDressed for R&R112 viewsLooking clean and civilized...ready to go on R&R.
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JCook96.JPGFlags Flying111 viewsThe U S flag and the Republic of Korea flags.
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JCook-115.JPGBreak Time111 viewsCleaned my mess kit and my uniform. Taking a break. (Note that short wall of sandbags around the tent. That concept quickly dumped in favor of bunkers as time went by.)
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JCook76.JPGAll my possessions110 viewsEverything I owned, clothes in a waterproof ammo fuze box.
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