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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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Treetop Flyer

I was talking to an old friend today.  I told him about my Vietnam blog and he told me something that gave me an idea.  I recently saw a couple of YouTube videos that I really liked that reminded me of...

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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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Ralph Crutts killed in action on May 18, 1969 on Hamburger Hill

We will always miss you Ralph.  You were a great friend and a true soldier.  You gave your life for your country 41 years ago today.   The Rakkasan’s commemorate your heroism and that of the other...

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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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Hot LZ

Another air-assault into the jungles of Vietnam. Usually when we were dropped at an LZ the pilots would touch the skids of the helicopters on the ground.  Occasionally we would be dropped at an LZ that...

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Hot LZ continued

Huey taking off from fire base with troops, headed to an LZ in the jungle. As my squad readied weapons and gear we were given final instructions by our squad leader, Sgt Dunn.  He told us that our...

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The first time I saw the symbol for the Rakkasans

I still vividly remeber the first time I saw the Rakkasan’s symbol.  It was outside the battalion headquarters at Camp Evans.  I came around the corner of the building and saw it standing there.  It...

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