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Tank and oxcart, Highway 13, 1967.
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POW north of Thunder 8, November 1967.
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Water buffalo and typical village.
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Heavy traffic on Highway 13, December 1967.
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Wanna Boom Boom, Cherry Boy?
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Need to use my Zippo?
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Want to rent a nice Lai Khe room?
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Buddhist Temple needs repair.
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Upside down ACAV; Mech Company echelon right on Highway 13, December 1967.
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RR crossing watch out for the cars.
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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).
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Chaplain (CPT), Amos Clemmens, CPT Gratzer, SP4 Willie Ward and SP4 Ralph Mittica, always digging in.
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An Loc School.
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Ben Cat ARVN on parade (Patrol?
Jesus, save us -- Pic by Tilley).
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One of my troopers WIA by a booby trapped grenade.
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Burning and blowing 8 X 14 bunkers near the Michelin Plantation.
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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.
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A perfect Hay Hole in Thunder 1.
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Bandit 6 and his Bandits, Awards & Decorations, Dec ’67, Lai Khe.
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CPT (Chap) Amos Clemmens and 1LT Dick Morrissey on the 6-Track.
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Sonny, about 26 Nov 67, showing off his Russian (not ChiCom) AK-47, Russian RPG-7, and a German Mouser replete with swastikas.
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Find the ACAV hidden in the elephant grass north of Lai Khe on a mounted sweep, Dec ’67.
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School kids at An Loc, Dec ’67.
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Going back into a bad spot after burning and bombing.
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Sonny (Bandit 6) and Dick Morrissey (Bandit 36) on Thunder Road, Dec ’67.
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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.
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Charlie in my Aussie shower.
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Charlie along for the ride.
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Charlie on my shoulder at the Bau Bang ruins, 10 Nov 67. Future site of Thunder 1.
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Thunder 1 – Latrine outside the wire in front, claymores, Hay Holes, track revetments and my Command Post, Dec ’67.
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Dave Uecker and 42's Home Away From Home. (pics by Don Tilley).
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George Lee and Dave Milam, aka Ding Dong. (pics by Don Tilley).
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Dave Uecker, KIA 21 Dec '68.
(pics by Don Tilley).
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King, Deets, Sgt Hatcher, Lopez and Clements, FDC of Bravo Company
(pics by Don Tilley).
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Dud (Tim Omens) and Sgt Hurk (Hurkowski?), with ChiCom Claymore. (pics by Don Tilley).
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Terrible Tennessee Tilley
(pics by Don Tilley).
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Tilley in the Foster Grants
(pics by Don Tilley).
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43 track in the mud.
(pics by Don Tilley).
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Same track in the mud.
(pics by Don Tilley).
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Johnnie Beaver, ready for Charlie (Pic by Tilley).
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Goose Gossage and Short Round (Pic by Tilley).
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213 Track, July 1967
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Bob Schilling, Fire Mission
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