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Dixon23.jpgPerformers & Entertainers213 views(Duc Pho, maybe) I distinctly remember the girl (on the right sitting) was quite withdrawn except when she was performing. I talked with her for a bit and she had seen a lot of bad stuff. I suspect she was a little depressed over something she had recently seen, but I didn't press the issue. But you can see here, while the fellow is performing, she seemed almost ready to cry. But when it came her turn, she smiled and went on like a trooper!
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Dixon31.jpgCharles Lovelady213 viewsCharles Lovelady at Montezuma standing next to the APC we affectionately called "Double-Deuce" on a tank retriever. It has just been hauled back from being either broken down or blown up. At one point, Double-Deuce was driven over a 500-LB. bomb that VCs buried. Driver, another friend, Derwyn Kaiser out of Baltimore, was (as I recall) saved by being blown out of the driver's hatch and had to undergo a long and painful hospital stay and operations. Oddly enough, we met not at Montezuma, but at a hospital down in Saigon as I recall when we were both patients.
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Dixon47.jpgLZ English - Bong Son213 views(cont) Next thing I know, the Chinook crashes on its side and the guys inside are scrambling to get out! Here they are with the chopper in the background crashed and the guys trying to cross the perimeter barbed with to get back IN to LZ English! Some of them were scraped up pretty badly.
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DScott_ready.JPG213 viewsLots of memories here...the sandbags, the M2 Aiming Circle, the R292 antenna reaching into the sky, the ammo crates, interlocking bunkers.
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Sunrise.JPGSunrise, Sunset212 viewsMorning and evening skies were a palette of a million colors.
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TamKy-Goodbye.jpgThe Final Days212 viewsRushing around to take pictures of "my guys" before catching a chopper and meeting my "Freedom Bird" home. Some of the last photos of cannoneers of A/2/9 taken before going home.
Here I bid farewell to PFC Doug Wigginton, Sp4 Ed Selent, and Sp4 Ron Hammond. Late October, 1967.
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Roman.jpg212 viewsFirst-Timer! Tom Roman was the FDC guy during his 68-69 tour with the 2/9th. Tom is a retired police Captain, transplanted from Danbury, CT to Lake Worth, FL. Smart move, Tom!
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JW-1.JPGThe Saturday Night Banquet212 viewsPhotos courtesy of John Waldman.
Artillery to the rescue! Here the men of the 2/9th Arty attending the reunion: Jerry Orr, John Waldman, Lee Okerstrom, John "Moon" Mullins, Greg Malnar, Mike Kurtgis, Dennis Munden, Ed Thomas, Bert Landau, Gary Dean Springer, Ernie Correia, Edwin Moor. Missing from picture: Jim Connolly, Jim T. James, and Dennis Dauphin.
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SG-17.JPGBeringer & Me212 viewsPete Beringer and yours truly. The FDC Bunker was a sight to behold. Luckily, we never got hit!
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2-9th_4a.jpgThe Banquet211 views...and here are their twin brothers....
Missing twins are: Ernest Correia and Jim Connolly.
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Tex_6-1.JPGOut of uniform?211 viewsYou won't find this method of showering in Ft Sill's FM 6-40. Hanging a water can to the end of the howitzer tube is strictly an improvisation. They would have to add another Chapter.
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MG-3.JPGThe M102211 viewsMore info on the M102 replacing the old war horse M101A1 with the split trails.
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