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US Marine on board USS Alamo (LSD 33) sights his weapon shortly before an amphibious landing against the VC in the Mekong Delta, 35 miles south of Saigon, South Vietnam. Photographed by PH1 W.M. Powers, 25 March 1966.
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Da Nang Harbor, Republic of Vietnam. Mineman Second Class Franklin Marshall, a Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team member, conducts a search for mines, especially those attached to ship's hulls, circa April 1966. The E.O.D. Team is responsible for harbor security. Several merchant ships are in the distance.
Original description and photo sourced by NHHC Photographic Section
Original description and photo sourced by NHHC Photographic Section
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Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. Lieutenant T.S. Storck, Naval Forces Vietnam Photo Officer, keeps his eyes open and his M-16 rifle handy while on board a Mark II, US Navy River Patrol Boat during a run near Binh Thuy, July 1968
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Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. Seaman Charles Davis enjoys a brief moment of relaxation from his duties on board the Mark II, US Navy River Patrol Boat (PBR) patrolling a delta river near Binh Thuy, July 1968.
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The Battle for Saigon. Marines crouch at a wall during Tet offensive. 1968 (Philip Jones Griffiths photo)
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The Tet offensive in 1968 found the 117th AHC located at the U.S. Air Force Base at Bien Hoa, east of Saigon. We lived in tents on the perimeter. Several of our helicopters were destroyed by 122mm rockets. SP/5 Kuntz stands by the remains of his gunship.
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CH-47 at LZ Robin", Vietnam, 1968. The 4th Marines headquarters was established at LZ Robin on June 4 and the 1st Battalion, 12th Marines arrived to establish and artillery base.
Original description and photos sourced from the Douglas A. Yeager Collection (COLL/5039) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
Original description and photos sourced from the Douglas A. Yeager Collection (COLL/5039) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
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This is an interesting picture......the back guy is a Marine, the guy in the foreground is an Army Spec 4. There were US Army troops in Hue assigned to the regional assistance command there and some arrived in small amounts to help in the siege.
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MACV SOG member during OP Tailwind. The deepest ever "Over The Fence" mission +400 miles into Laos from the Vietnam border. c.1970
One of the most successful operations conducted during the eight-year secret war in Laos during the Vietnam War was conducted south of the Bolovens Plateau in southern Laos, 45 years ago. Lead by Green Beret Capt. Eugene McCarley, 15 Green Berets and 120 Montagnard mercenaries executed a hair-raising, four-day mission deep inside enemy territory to take the pressure off of a CIA operation on the plateau against the communist North Vietnamese Army (NVA). Operation Tailwind not only succeeded in diverting NVA assets and hundreds of soldiers from the CIA battlefield, but it netted one of the largest intelligence coups by a Green Beret team in the secret war’s history run under the aegis of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group, or simply SOG.
Operation Tailwind went down in the annals of SOG history as one of the most successful operations because of its unique nature and because it was conducted beyond the area of routinely authorized SOG operations. This operation went deeper into Laos than any SOG operation in history and it was a success in large part to aggressive leadership of McCarley and the relentless day-and-night air cover provided to the Green Berets by Air Force SPADs, F-4 Phantom jets, C-119K Stingers, C-130E Spectre gunships, forward air controllers, Marine Corps Cobra gunships, and heavy transport CH-53D Sikorsky helicopters.
“To be blunt about it,” McCarley told SOFREP, “the CIA operation in the Bolovens Plateau was getting its clock cleaned by the NVA. The CIA came to SOG command asking for a hatchet force, company-sized operation south of them to take off the pressure.” The CIA’s Operation Gauntlet was launched Sept. 3, 1970, with 5,000 irregular troops whose objective was to harass and interdict enemy lines of communication in southern Laos and to clear the eastern rim of the plateau, according to DoD reports.
MACV SOG member during OP Tailwind. The deepest ever "Over The Fence" mission +400 miles into Laos from the Vietnam border. c.1970
One of the most successful operations conducted during the eight-year secret war in Laos during the Vietnam War was conducted south of the Bolovens Plateau in southern Laos, 45 years ago. Lead by Green Beret Capt. Eugene McCarley, 15 Green Berets and 120 Montagnard mercenaries executed a hair-raising, four-day mission deep inside enemy territory to take the pressure off of a CIA operation on the plateau against the communist North Vietnamese Army (NVA). Operation Tailwind not only succeeded in diverting NVA assets and hundreds of soldiers from the CIA battlefield, but it netted one of the largest intelligence coups by a Green Beret team in the secret war’s history run under the aegis of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group, or simply SOG.
Operation Tailwind went down in the annals of SOG history as one of the most successful operations because of its unique nature and because it was conducted beyond the area of routinely authorized SOG operations. This operation went deeper into Laos than any SOG operation in history and it was a success in large part to aggressive leadership of McCarley and the relentless day-and-night air cover provided to the Green Berets by Air Force SPADs, F-4 Phantom jets, C-119K Stingers, C-130E Spectre gunships, forward air controllers, Marine Corps Cobra gunships, and heavy transport CH-53D Sikorsky helicopters.
“To be blunt about it,” McCarley told SOFREP, “the CIA operation in the Bolovens Plateau was getting its clock cleaned by the NVA. The CIA came to SOG command asking for a hatchet force, company-sized operation south of them to take off the pressure.” The CIA’s Operation Gauntlet was launched Sept. 3, 1970, with 5,000 irregular troops whose objective was to harass and interdict enemy lines of communication in southern Laos and to clear the eastern rim of the plateau, according to DoD reports.
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December 1966. American armour on the streets of Saigon. Photo by William Cunneen. [AWM CUN/66/1002/VN]
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C-141A, serial number 66-177, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi was the first aircraft to return Vietnam prisoners of war to the United States on Feb. 12, 1973. The Hanoi Taxi flew two missions into Hanoi, carrying out 78 POWs and two civilian returnees to the Philippines, and four missions from the Philippines to the United States, carrying 76 ex-POWs. Learn more here --> http://bit.ly/2iQBSkQ
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Pictured is HM3 (Hospital Corspman 3) Ronald L. Williams, 1st Hospital Co., 1st Marine Div., with children from the village of An Tan, Vietnam. M43 Ambulance in background.
The M43 and M43B1s were produced from 1951-1968.
I built up a model M43 for my father in law who was an Army doctor in Vietnam. He said they actually didn't use their ambulances much due to widespread helicopter use for transporting patients. However, he did share a hilarious story:
Some enterprising GIs got one of the M43 ambulances and drove it to the nearby town and picked up a couple of "working ladies". They drove back to post -- and were waved in through the guardhouse/checkpost due to its being an ambulance.
The GIs backed it to the rear doors of one of the enlisted men's barracks and there was a line, fifty deep, of guys about to partake in the "services". My FIL said it happened a few more times before someone figured it out and put a stop to the mobile bordello. Gotta love free enterprise!
The M43 and M43B1s were produced from 1951-1968.
I built up a model M43 for my father in law who was an Army doctor in Vietnam. He said they actually didn't use their ambulances much due to widespread helicopter use for transporting patients. However, he did share a hilarious story:
Some enterprising GIs got one of the M43 ambulances and drove it to the nearby town and picked up a couple of "working ladies". They drove back to post -- and were waved in through the guardhouse/checkpost due to its being an ambulance.
The GIs backed it to the rear doors of one of the enlisted men's barracks and there was a line, fifty deep, of guys about to partake in the "services". My FIL said it happened a few more times before someone figured it out and put a stop to the mobile bordello. Gotta love free enterprise!
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An exhausted Marine, finds refuge inside an An Hoa Church during a heavy North Vietnamese mortar attack on May 5, 1967. The Marines were forced to use the church as a hospital and a morgue.
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February 8th 1962, MACV is formed.
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A FireFly Star light, NOD, star bright hello, charlie I see you at night and you are in my sights no where to run to and no where to hide. Light his ass up!!! Night Hawk
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50 cal gun and head on hand: Main supply route convoy near fire support base Pershing, names and date unknown. Men relax in a truck while reading mail after a mail delivery. Many men would burn or dispose of mail after reading it, as the US Army did not want soldiers carrying personal information that could be used against G.I.s should they be captured. Vietnam between March 68 and May 69.
Photo by Charlie Haughey
Photo by Charlie Haughey
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Members of Co. C, 3rd Bn., 7th Inf., 199th Lt. Inf. Bde., move through a river southwest of Saigon while on a cordon and search operation.
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South Vietnam, January, 1968: American soldiers take cover from enemy fire during a three-day operation by B Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry in the Que Son Valley, 35 miles from Da Nang. Credit John Olson/Stars and Stripes.
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