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WO-1 John Keller & 1LT Robert Wright700 viewsJohn Keller Photo
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Chuck Stevens & Mike Schlaudraff700 viewsMilo (Mike) Schlaudraff Photo

Crew Chiefs Chuck Stevens and Mike Schlaudraff taking a break in #964.
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Operation Golf Course, An Khe700 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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Country south of Kontum699 viewsSteve Lachiondo Photo
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Charlie Company Bad Day at the Office698 viewsJay Dirnberger Photo
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Our area on the morning after698 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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"O" Club Door698 viewsWayne Trucke Photo
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67-17439698 viewsRon Lazenby Photo

1969 Photo of my A/C, the "Michigan Menace" AC 67-17439
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WO1 William Robertson697 viewsJohn Keller Photo

LZ Oasis, December 1966, WO1 William Robertson tossing the baseball.
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Chinook Going Down 696 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 & Stevens695 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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Kids695 viewsRick Korbel Photo

Lai Khe 68 - 69
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