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Ventrella & Appel665 viewsTed Grossman Photo
Jerry Ventrella in center, Dirk Appel on right
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Operation Golf Course, An Khe665 viewsPhoto by Marvin Wolf, PIO photographer, 1CAV
Operation Golf Course was the mission of the advance party, to clear the triple canopy jungle while minimizing damage to the grass below it. This involved backbreaking labor by the senior noncoms and field grades that made up most of the advance party (the rifle company that came along was not involved in clearing jungle because they were screening our expanding perimeter). We did not have a bulldozer or other earth moving equipment, so we used axes, a few small chainsaws (they were all o/a by the end of one week, machetes, Bowie knives, shovels, and two jeep winches. Once we were attacked in force and our position and mission no longer secret, we recruited thousands of local laborers (the mothers, children and grandparents of the local VC) to clear the area. That's what the shot shows. So it's not an operation at the Golf Course, it's Operation Golf Course, the mission of creating space for hundreds of helicopters that were then at sea. This photo was taken the first week of September 1965.
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Chinook Going Down 664 viewsPhoto provided by Bob Witt
Taken from Tiger April 1968
This is from an 8mm film that Lt. Sprayberrys Battalion surgeon took from the top of Tiger. The AC & CP walked into Sprayberry's perimeter 2 days later after E&E. They followed the sound of chain saws they heard being used on the LZ.
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Crew Chiefs Schlaudraff, King & Stevens661 viewsMilo (Mike) Schlaudraff Photo
Left to Right:
Crew Chiefs Mike Schlaudraff, James King, and Chuck Stevens at the base camp in An Khe
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Phan Thiet POL with Scotty Colligan (left) 1967 661 viewsJP Edwards Photo
The individual on the right, wearing a helmet, is identified as Eddy Esposti, Gunner, (by Wayne Driver).
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Our area on the morning after661 viewsBob Kelly Photo
My Carbine. Our refridgerator. sprayer for agent orange. Tent knocked down. Our bunker facing ammo dump. Ernie and I back from battalion luckily did not step on live ammo or geet shot by friendlies.
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Lai Khe Revetments661 viewsHoward Burbank Photo
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John Deaton661 viewsGuy Sparrow Photo
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Charlie Company Bad Day at the Office659 viewsJay Dirnberger Photo
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C-130 Hercules at An Khe Airport657 viewsJohn Keller Photo
C-130 "HERCULES" at An Khe Airport in April, 1967
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Deros Center at An Khe657 viewshttp://b68mustangs.com/photopage39/photopage39.html
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Some of the guys657 viewsBill Flora Photo
Paul Sage, Jim Lietzen, Ron Lazenby, Mike Collins and two unknowns
Lai Khe
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