One of Charlie Company’s Sergeants
Sargent, name unknown. This a picture of one of the sergeants in our company. I can’t remember if he was a platoon or squad leader. I can’t for the life of me remember his name. And, of course...
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Hunter on fire base. This post has a picture of Hunter, a member of 3rd Squad, returning from a patrol. Hunter was, shall I say, a brick short of a full load. I remember one time we were on patrol...
View ArticleJack and Val on a hill overlooking the lowlands
Jack Schmitz and Val ‘Woody’ Wuthrich This post has another picture of Jack and I (Woody) on a hill overlooking the lowlands somewhere west of Hue. We were on patrol and may have been waiting for...
View ArticleNight ambush on the Song Bo – Part 1
View of Song Bo river where we ambushed vietcong crossing the river in a sampan. Our platoon was on patrol along the Song Bo river in the mountains somewhere near the lowlands. The river was fairly...
View ArticleNight ambush on the Song Bo – Part 2
View of Song BO River, where we ambushed vietcong in a sampan. After striping down to his fatigue bottoms he dove into the river and swam out to where we last saw the sampan. When reached the middle...
View ArticleGalen Brown and Terry Wender killed on May 13, 1969 on Hamburger Hill
While securing a trail leading up the middle of a ridge on west side of Hamburger Hill, Galen Brown and Terry Wender were shot and killed by enemy fire. The day was May 13th, 1969, a day that I will...
View ArticleBuddy re-assigned to Alpha Company
Alfredo Hernandez and Greg West at firebase I took the picture in this post of Alfredo and Greg as they took a break from working on one of our fire-bases. They are resting against a fuel or water...
View ArticleA Jack Schmitz’s picture story
Jack Schmitz at one of the 101st Airborne fire-bases near the A Shau Valley I took this picture of Jack Schmitz as he took a smoke break. We were on a fire-base near the A Shau Valley. I’m not sure...
View ArticleYellow rain
We were stationed on a firebase overlooking the A Shau Valley one time. The top of the firebase was bare with not a lot of protection from the elements. On this particular day it was a mostly clear...
View ArticleNew guy with bug killer
Toward the last part of my tour, we had a new soldier join our squad while we were out on a mission in the jungle. His last name was Carpenter. Most of the men in our squad had been together for...
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