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Bob Hope Christmas Show702 viewsJohn Keller Photo
U.S. Military Troops at the 4th Infantry Division "Ivy Bowl" at/near Pleiku, December 1966. All of us A/227 personnel flew in from LZ Oasis to view the USA Sponsored, Bob Hope Christmas Show.
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Operation Golf Course, An Khe697 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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WO-1 John Keller & 1LT Robert Wright695 viewsJohn Keller Photo
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Chuck Stevens & Mike Schlaudraff695 viewsMilo (Mike) Schlaudraff Photo
Crew Chiefs Chuck Stevens and Mike Schlaudraff taking a break in #964.
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Deros Center at An Khe692 viewshttp://b68mustangs.com/photopage39/photopage39.html
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WO1 William Robertson691 viewsJohn Keller Photo
LZ Oasis, December 1966, WO1 William Robertson tossing the baseball.
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Crew Chiefs Schlaudraff, King & Stevens689 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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New Grunts Going North683 viewsBob Witt Photo
An Khe 1968
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LZ Hammond Brigade Pad679 viewsJohn Keller Photo
LZ HAMMOND during January, 1967 with this picture showing the Brigade Pad (not sure which Brigade?) This pad was primarily for VIP’s and 11th GS aircraft.
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C-130 Hercules at An Khe Airport677 viewsJohn Keller Photo
C-130 "HERCULES" at An Khe Airport in April, 1967
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First bullet hole in #964672 viewsMilo (Mike) Schlaudraff Photo
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1CAV Band playing at LZ Oasis669 viewsJohn Keller Photo
1CAV Band at LZ Oasis on Thanksgiving 1966 at the A/227 Company area.
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