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Tank and oxcart, Highway 13, 1967.
POW north of Thunder 8,  November 1967.
Water buffalo and typical village.
Heavy traffic on Highway 13, December 1967.
Wanna Boom Boom, Cherry Boy?
Need to use my Zippo?
Want to rent a nice Lai Khe room?
Buddhist Temple needs repair.
Upside down ACAV; Mech Company echelon right on Highway 13, December 1967.
RR crossing watch out for the cars.
BACK ROW:
CPT Curt Duble (Commo Officer), LT Burns (Recon Platoon Leader), MAJ Dick Hargrove (Bn XO) FRONT ROW CPT Rafael Nadel  (S-1), CPT Will Carey (A Co CO), CPT Sonny Gratzer (B Co CO), CPT Ed Roby (C Co CO).
Chaplain (CPT), Amos Clemmens, CPT Gratzer, SP4 Willie Ward and SP4 Ralph Mittica, always digging in.
An Loc School.
Ben Cat ARVN on parade (Patrol?
Jesus, save us -- Pic by Tilley).
One of my troopers WIA by a booby trapped grenade.
Burning and blowing 8 X 14 bunkers near the Michelin Plantation.
My HEX tent never got used.  It's full of shrapnel holes.  Note the hole in the ground from a B-40 round.  My track berm took eight B-40 hits that Thanksgiving Night.
A perfect Hay Hole in Thunder 1.
Bandit 6 and his Bandits, Awards & Decorations, Dec ’67, Lai Khe.
CPT (Chap) Amos Clemmens and 1LT Dick Morrissey on the 6-Track.
Sonny, about 26 Nov 67, showing off his Russian (not ChiCom) AK-47, Russian RPG-7, and a German Mouser replete with swastikas.
Find the ACAV hidden in the elephant grass north of Lai Khe on a mounted sweep, Dec ’67.
School kids at An Loc, Dec ’67.
Going back into a bad spot after burning and bombing.
Sonny (Bandit 6) and Dick Morrissey (Bandit 36) on Thunder Road, Dec ’67.
Three-fingered Charlie eating out of my hand.  He lost some fingers when a patrol cut him with a machete,
medevaced him and gave him a Heart as a joke.
Charlie in my Aussie shower.
Charlie along for the ride.
Charlie on my shoulder at the Bau Bang ruins, 10 Nov 67.  Future site of Thunder 1.
Thunder 1 – Latrine outside the wire in front, claymores, Hay Holes, track revetments and my Command Post, Dec ’67.
Dave Uecker and 42's Home Away From Home. (pics by Don Tilley).
George Lee and Dave Milam, aka Ding Dong. (pics by Don Tilley).
Dave Uecker, KIA 21 Dec '68.
(pics by Don Tilley).
King, Deets, Sgt Hatcher, Lopez and Clements, FDC of Bravo Company
(pics by Don Tilley).
Dud (Tim Omens) and Sgt Hurk (Hurkowski?), with ChiCom Claymore. (pics by Don Tilley).
Terrible Tennessee Tilley
(pics by Don Tilley).
Tilley in the Foster Grants
(pics by Don Tilley).
43 track in the mud.
(pics by Don Tilley).
Same track in the mud.
(pics by Don Tilley).
Johnnie Beaver, ready for Charlie (Pic by Tilley).
Goose Gossage and Short Round (Pic by Tilley).
213 Track, July 1967
Bob Schilling, Fire Mission
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