The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit

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MK100.jpg8" How SP156 viewsThe most accurate artillery piece there is...the 8" inch howitzer. Even Ft Sill can't explain it. A range of 18 klicks.
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MK147.jpgHuman cost of war156 viewsMama-san say: "You take baby girl home America...she make good wife".
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WS-62.JPGHere it is156 viewsThis is where all the action takes place.
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Turner_82.jpgNightclub156 viewsDark...that's why it's a nightclub, I guess.
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Dixon6a.jpg156 viewsMemories are made of this! The 3" reel-to-reel GE brand tape recorder operated on D-cell batteries. Just so happens that everything else in the field operated on D-cell batteries, too! Great way to communicate back home. Still works today!
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TR75.jpgDragonfly156 viewsLooks like a giant dragonfly or a plane designed by a committee, but this Sikorksky Sky Crane could pick up virtually anything.
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2010-Pitts25.JPGThe Morning After156 viewsDeparting early Sunday morning: Dennis Dauphin (2/9), George Keener and Past Assn President Dick Arnold (35th).
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File_4-5.JPGIn the raw156 viewsFinally found a mountain to take a bath and a shave. That water was g ----- d COLD! "Hey, Mom, send this one to Playgirl magazine".
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File_9-5.JPGReady for Charlie156 viewsNight logger position. This is how it was done. I spelled one of the guys taking a break.
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Rick_4-1.JPGPrior to the wheels coming off156 viewsThis is a picture of our 105 howitzer before we took off the wheels. They always got in the way and someone was always falling or bumping into them when we swung it around to get it into position! (Wonder if Ft Sill approved this field modification?) Paint job by "Mike".
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BK-5.JPGCabinet-makers156 viewsBill Kull stands in front of battlefield luxury: a shelving unit.
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JC-12.JPGThe "Moon", Sp4 A. John Mullins156 viewsJohn "Moon" Mullins, originally from Butler, now Elgin, IL
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