The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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JD-300.JPG80 views
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LZ_Tuffy_-_Built_up.JPGLZ Tuffy - 197080 viewsRadio City Music Hall. Nah, the dinks will never recognize the cleverly disguised antennas.
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LZ_Abbey2.JPGLZ Abbey - the South China Sea80 views(continued) For the first time in Nam, I had the South China Sea on my map. We set up in a graveyard on top of a hill surrounded as a horseshoe by water.
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JoeH_-_2.JPGCompany Luncheon80 viewsCompany "A", 1/35th has a downtown luncheon in Chicago.
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RW-11.JPGHide and Seek80 viewsFellow redlegs Barrington and Pfc Gordon G. Roufs. Roufs came over from Hawaii with Operation Blue Light.
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RW-20.JPGModest quarters80 viewsMy home at the Tea Plantation (Catecka). This area was south of Pleiku and south of Dragon.
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RW-25.JPGMore horseplay80 viewsRedlegs Barrington and Wilson engage in a little weaponry horseplay. Note the stateside OD uniforms. The 25th Inf Div Advance Party was sent over on Christmas Eve, December, 1965 and the full 3rd Brigade Task Force was deployed in January, 1966. It took awhile before the jungle fatigues were issued.
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RW-32.JPGLZ Uplift80 viewsLooks like a gunship demonstration.
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RW-33.JPGLZ Uplift80 viewsSetting up camp at LZ Uplift.
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French_Ambush.JPGSite of the historic ambush80 viewsHistory tells us that this is where the French forces were ambushed at the Mang Yang Pass on Hwy 19.
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LZ_Uplift_1a.JPGLZ Uplift80 viewsFirepower demo at LZ Uplift.
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Plieku_Theater_Goers.JPGPleiku series80 viewsPleiku Theater Goers: People lining up for tickets and some waiting for the show to start.
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