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A series of pictures taken by a young Marine, serving with an artillery radar unit, in Chu Lai and Danang. 1965-1966.

 

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Christopher Ammons firing an M16
Vietnam, 1967-1968. Christopher Ammons enlisted in the U.S. Army on June 1, 1967, one week after graduating from high school. Ammons served as a replacement, assigned to the 1st Infantry Division in Company A, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry. He began his service at the rank of Private First Class, receiving promotion to Specialist in March 1968 and to Sergeant in July 1968.
After his first tour ended in November 1968, Ammons returned to the United States, where he was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In July 1969 he deployed to Vietnam for a second tour, this time as a member of the 194th Military Police Company attached to the 1st Signal Brigade. Ammons spent his second tour with the security company on Vung Chua Mountain, a vital communications site near the city of Qui Nhơn on the South China Sea coast. Ammons completed his second and final tour in Vietnam in May 1970.
(Christoper D. Ammons Papers)

 

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"Dan Bullock (December 21, 1953 – June 7, 1969) was a United States Marine and the youngest American serviceman killed in action during the Vietnam War, dying at the age of 15.
When he was 14 years old, he altered the date on his birth certificate to show that he was born December 21, 1949. He processed through the recruiting station, and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on September 18, 1968. He was a member of Platoon 3039 at Parris Island. At first he struggled to make it through, but was able to do so with the help of one of his fellow recruits. Bullock graduated from boot camp on December 10, 1968.
Private first class Bullock arrived in the Republic of Vietnam on May 18, 1969, and was assigned as a rifleman in 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon, Fox Company, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. He was stationed at An Hoa Combat Base, west of Hội An in Quảng Nam Province. He was killed instantly by small arms fire less than a month later on June 7, 1969, during a North Vietnamese Army night attack while he was on perimeter security, according to his squad leader. Bullock was just 15 years old. Lest We Forget."

 

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Private First Class Donald L. Baldwin (San Diego, California) typifies the young Leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment, now sweeping Batangan Peninsula on Operation Bold Mariner (official USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Bob Jordan).

 

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“I am not a hero but I have walked beside a few”
I read this somewhere. I can say that this is true of myself. This got me to thinking of some men I have known and worked with who definitely fall in the category of hero.
Admiral John D. Bulkeley, awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing General Douglas MacArthur and his family from the Japanese during WW II. Adm. Bulkeley commanded the PT boat squadron of PT109 and John F. Kennedy fame. He was a participant in the D-Day Invasion of Europe. I worked for him in Guantanamo Bay, 1964-65.
Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States of America. He served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy on warships in the Pacific during WWII. As President he was the Commander-in-Chief when I was commissioned as an officer in the Navy in 1962. He was one of the most effective and undervalued presidents to have served the USA. He finished out the term of Richard Nixon during a very turbulent time of anti-war protests. I did not really know him. I met him only once.
Warrant Officer Solomon H. Godwin, USMC. He was an intelligence officer. He was captured by the NVA in Hue during the Tet Offensive, 1968. He died in captivity not long after. I served with him in Gitmo 1964-1965.
Captain Herman W. Hughes, US Navy, Retired

 

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Operation Prairie was a U.S. military operation in Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam that sought to eliminate enemy forces south of the Demilitarized Zone. (1966)

 

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U.S. Army nursing/medical staff. 1969 36th Evac Hospital closing Leaving Vung Tau.

 

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“Excedrin Headache” No. 10,003 is mounted beneath a CH-54 of the First Cav. The five ton bomb would explode about tree level thus creating an LZ. This Skycrane had two previous bombing missions. Photo from Da Nang, October of 1968.

 

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Sharon Lane became the first and only American servicewoman killed as a direct result of enemy fire during the Vietnam War. Lane was born July 7, 1943 in Zanesville, Ohio. Two years later the Lane family moved to Canton, where she spent the remainder of her childhood and graduated from Canton South High School in 1961. She decided to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse by attending the Aultman Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1965. Lane worked at a local hospital for two years before deciding to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Reserve in 1968. In 1969 she was sent to Vietnam, working five days a week, twelve hours a day and spent her off-duty time taking care of the most critically injured American soldiers in the surgical ICU.
On the morning of 8 June 1969, the 312th Evacuation Hospital was struck by a salvo of 122mm rockets fired by the Viet Cong. One rocket struck between Wards 4A and 4B, killing Lane instantly. She was one of three killed with another twenty-seven wounded.
Though one of eight American military nurses who died while serving in Vietnam, Sharon Lane was the only American nurse killed as a direct result of hostile fire. She was one month shy of her twenty-sixth birthday.
For her service in Vietnam, 1LT Sharon Ann Lane was awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star with “V” device, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, the National Order of Vietnam Medal, and the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross (with Palm). She was inducted into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame in 1995.

 

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I saw this online - "Easter 1971" which brought back memories.

Looking through the few remaining photos from those years I put away, I was surprised to find I hadn't thrown this one out - it's in pretty sorry condition after all these years. "Easter morning, 1969". Cam Lo, RVN cleaning the M60.

(Soft covers were okay in the bunker after all clear had been declared)