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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

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...

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Jack 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...

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Night 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...

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Night 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...

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Galen 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...

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Buddy 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...

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A 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...

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Yellow 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...

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New 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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