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WS-6.JPGSandbagging215 viewsNote the heavy use of sandbags and engineer stakes.
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MK-57.jpgThe Suspects215 viewsThese are "Yards" who were blacklisted as VC suspects.
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DP6a.JPGLZ Baldy - Mortar Attack215 viewsSP5 Jim Fitzpatrick and one of the many mortar & rocket holes taken near our tent (our tent is the pointed one...out of the rear of the tent is our bunker. During the first attack, we found our bunker was open on the back side, which was where the rounds were landing. We sat there listening to the rounds coming overhead enroute to the CP bunker.
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Dixon52.jpgTraffic Jam215 viewsThe local street toughs that the GI's referred to as "cowboys" used to give me a motorcycle to ride around on. HERE is what is looked like out on the streets in the embassy district near the U.S. Special Services compound in the late afternoons. Traffic jam, South Vietnamese style!
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JCook2.jpg"B" Battery Officers215 viewsCaptains Byron, Rice, and Osborne. Capt Osborne took over after Capt Rice's departure. {"Byron" should be Capt Max R. Barron, former XO of "B" Battery}
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Okie449.JPGBush Hat215 viewsReady for the bush, obviously. Here, "Doc", (Ireland?) the medic, is packed & ready. Notice the western style pistol tucked in the belt.
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BertBeach.JPGOn The Beach215 viewsMy failing memory suggests that this was before we went into the mountains [and carnage] west of Tam Ky, so we were still relatively 'unbloodied' except for a few scrapes. Maybe October, 67? For a day or two, I think we were kind of pinned in with the sea at our back, on a white sand beach that was very easily defended. Choppers brought is food and mail and flew in from the sea instead of over land for the 2-3 days were were there. Even night was fairly safe since we had nearly a full moon, clear skies and anything that moved was pretty easily spotted in the white sand. Does any of that sound familiar?
(Bert watches intently as a "local" is giving information. Note his typically discarded helmet appears in the rear; could never get one that fit. )
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SkyCrane.jpgHauling Water214 viewsA Sikorsky Sky Crane is put on duty to haul a water trailer. Usually a chore handled by the CH-47s.
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2008Reunion-20.jpgFirst Timers214 viewsGene and Cindy Schmidt are "first timers" at the 35th Inf Regt reunion traveling all the way from the west coast. Gene served as the FO for D-1-35 back in the days of Nam.
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Dixon7.jpgProperty of 2/9th KIA Charles McClurg214 viewsMy friend Charles McClurg felt that he was not coming back after being re-assigned to the field with an FO party. so he gave me some of his personal belongings. I have kept them to this day.
{Please see TAPS - McClurg for more info}
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Sp-4_Woodhouse.jpgBest Defense214 viewsIn order to make sandbags, you gotta make mud first. Sp4 Woodhouse takes a pickaxe to break up the soil. Note the 2/9th insignia on his field cap.
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Woody,Tucker,Guyton.jpgMore Buddies214 viewsSection Chief Edwin Tucker (center) and Wardell Guyton, right (deceased) pose with Harold Woody.
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