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  1. rotorwash

    Article The Horseshoe

    This map shows an area west of Quang Ngai that was always a hotspot, nicknamed the Horseshoe. Charley wanted to control the area because if he could call it home, it was the last haven before they were under the artillery fans on the way to Quang Ngai, Mo Duc and points east. This is a...
  2. soldiers in action

    soldiers in action

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  3. US Army Captain Robert Bacon

    US Army Captain Robert Bacon

    Leading a Patrol During the Early Years of the Vietnam War
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  4. Frisco-Kid

    P-Training

    Preparatory Training. When a paratrooper was assigned to the 101st in 66-67, after processing in, drawing equipment, etc. at Phan Rang he was sent through P-Training prior to being assigned to a company and sent out to the field. I don't know if this continued after the rest of the division...
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    Article U.S. Army Casualties By Unit

    Source: National Archives and Records Administration Unit .......................Nickname ...............KIA...............Comment 1st Cavalry Division* First Team *5,464 25th Infantry Division *Tropic Lightning *4,561 101st Airborne Division *Screaming Eagles* 4,022 1st...
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    Article A Day In The Life - 101 Trooper in Vietnam

    A Day In The Life...... A typical day started before daylight. We'd be up, silently preparing for the day's hump. As the day lightened up, squad-sized clearing patrols would fan out from the laager site looking for any signs that Charlie had been in the area. If there had been any out, the...
  7. Frisco-Kid

    Article Foreigners In Our Ranks

    Canadians have served in the American military since the Civil War. Over the years 40 of them have received Congressional Medals Of Honor, including Sp/4 Peter C. Lemon of Norwich, Ontario, for his actions while serving in a recon company in the 1st Cav in VN. Conversely, 35,000 Americans served...
  8. Frisco-Kid

    Article The 10 Deadliest Battles

    10 Deadliest Battles BATTLE-------------COMBAT--------------DATES --------------------FATALITIES-------------------- Ia Drang Valley----300 (1)-------------Oct 23-Nov 26, '65 Khe Sanh-----------205 (2)--------------Jan 20-Apr 14, '68 Dak To--------------192 (3)--------------Nov 1-Dec 1...
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    Photos Vietnam War Memorials

    These are found all across the country in cities and towns of every size. Some are quite small and simple, while others are large and ornate. Many list the names of the fallen from that city, town, county, or state. Some just a poem or phrase. Some were erected immediately after the war, others...
  10. Frisco-Kid

    My First Time

    My first time under fire came about 3 days [JUL66] after I got to my company. We were up by Dak To in the Central Highlands; a VERY dangerous place. We got hit by a small ambush from a nearby tree line. We drop for cover, but not before we take some casualties from the initial burst of fire. I...
  11. Frisco-Kid

    Doggie-On-A-Stick

    One time while patrolling through a ville in the Central Highlands, a buddy and I stop to watch a woman that is squatted down cooking some pieces of meat that are skewed on a piece of split bamboo. She is holding them over a charcoal broiler like roasting marshmellows. She looks up at us, gives...
  12. 03Fox2/1

    Pinkville (To follow soon)

    Since Frisco-Kid has successfully been able to return to this site some of his former VietNam threads that were lost due to a data base crash, I have been wondering how and if I should also do so. Unfortunately, most of what I write on this site and a few others, never exists anywhere else, no...
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    Article Diddy Boppin'

    The first couple of weeks of FEB67 we're doing a S&D operation in the southern Central Highlands somewhere around Bao Loc. It was pretty rugged country, but we'd been in rougher further north in The Highlands. It was some beautiful country, and my biggest memory of it is it had several beautiful...
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    Article 30 june 1966

    After a non-stop flight [17hrs.] from Travis AFB, California, to Tan Son Nhut Air Base, on the outskirts of Saigon, Vietnam, we finally touch down. It's been real quiet on the plane for the last 20min. or so, as everyone's been looking out of the windows ever since land came into view, each with...
  15. Frisco-Kid

    Some Of The Music

    The VN War was directly responsible for alot of songs written during those years. Most of the more popular ones were anti-war/protest songs [Marvin Gaye's "WHAT'S GOING ON"; Buffalo Springfield's "FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH"], but there were a few [VERY few] patriotic songs that put the soldier in a...
  16. Frisco-Kid

    Article Task Force Oregon

    Duc Pho is in Quang Ngai Province which was the southern-most end of I Corps, a mostly Marine AO. With Marines being this far south, they were spread pretty thin. The 1st Cav was also in the area. In early '67 most of the heavy fighting was taking place in III Corps around Saigon. The Army...
  17. China Beach Compound Entrance & Exit March 27 1970

    China Beach Compound Entrance & Exit March 27 1970

    I am here with this great little lady... Tay. I always liked pulling watch with her. My favorite lady. We could talk like no tomorrow...and I liked her too. Several years older than me but she looked like a kid.
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  18. Da Nang -China Beach Exchange Feb 28 1970

    Da Nang -China Beach Exchange Feb 28 1970

    This is the Exchange Store where you get your groceries, cigarettes and stuff. Lots of good stuff inside to spend your money. It was located just inside the compound where I directed traffic in the street.
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  19. armband

    armband

    This is the Arm Band I wore Directing Traffic in and out on the way to the China Beach Exchange. I was in the Navy and spent my year there in the NSA Security Police 1970.
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  20. modern

    modern

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    • 47th infantry m113 apc united states army vietnam war
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