Picture of Team "???" in 1966. A very long ambush on a hot afternoon. Spotted three VC with hardly any clothes and one rusty rifle between them, two got away. (Gary
Husar)
Team "Rice Crispies" in October '68: Front L-R, Cpl. Bobby Mitchell, Lcpl James Peter, Cpl???? Marshall, Lcpl.James "Ragbag" Burgess, Cpl. John Gremillion, Lcpl. Ricky Bateman, "Doc Twink" Peter Voelker HM3, Cpl. Terry Rait.
Lt. Earl G. Darlington, Plt Cdr. 1st Platoon, Alpha Co., 1st Recon Bn. (Chu Lai) 1966. In the background is LZ Quail from which we launched patrols and recovered them at Chu Lai. (Earl Darlington)
Recon OP, Hill 452, looking down towards the river and the wooden LZ platform built on the side of the hill.
(Doc Buehl)
Radio Bunker at Hill 452. Those aren't all antennas. Most of them are lightening rods. A number of radio operators were lost to heat lightening!
(Doc Buehl)
Cpl Larsen with Bravo-2 by entrance to a storage cave along a stream near the Vu Gia and Charlie Ridge (Brian Riley)
PFC Larsen on patrol along streambed leading to the Song Vu Gia 3 Km from Hill 200 OP. Bravo Co, 2nd Platoon, April 1969(B. Riley)
Emergency SPIE extraction of Team RUDDER (Bravo Company) out of the QUE SON mountains. (March 71). We ran into a NVA underground hospital complex. They did not like our presence and asked us to leave. The picture was taken by GySgt Ed Evans (Leather Neck reporter). He was riding in the back-up CH 46. On the rig from top to bottom is Scott Matson, Moses Lee, Bob Ast, Dale Rutkowski, Kawelo Makaneole, and Dean Ackman (Dean supplied this picture and he states that he hated riding the bottom!)
Harbor Site - Mike Dykeman cleaning M-14, Carney Crabs on radio, Herburger resting - from Bravo Company 1969(M.Dykeman)
Patrol Pops Yellow Smoke in Happy Valley. Carney Crabs and Mike Dykeman from Bravo Company 1969 (M.Dykeman)
Checking Map during break. Carney Crabs and Clifford Emory from Bravo Company 1969 (M.Dykeman)
Mike Dimino at Beach, team Blue Spruce, Bravo-3 1968 (Mike Dimino)
Team Blue Spruce - Cpl Jim Southall, front left, Lt Jim Barda,, front right (Mike Dimino)
Bravo Company Mascot "Charlie T" an eleven foot rock python captured by Sgt Charlie Tannehill in Elephant Valley (M.Dykeman)
Medal Ceremony at Camp Reasoner. Cpl. Thompson, Cpl. Jim Southall, Sgt Dave Lopez (all Bravo Deuce)
(Brian Riley)
Rock and Roll with Ma Deuce - Doc Graves fires M2 .50 cal machinegun on Hill 200 OP. Bravo Co, 2nd Platoon April 1969(B. Riley)
Nude follies on Hill 200, Bravo Deuce members go down for water and to bathe and clean their clothes. They decided not to sweat up their clean clothes, so they came back up with nothing on but hats, boots, and cartridge
belts. (L-R) PFC Landon, PFC Horne, LCpl Boyd (dog handler), Cpl LeBeau, PFC Coy (with head down), Mar '69 (by B. Riley)
Raising the flag and a radio antenna to boot on top of the main ammo bunker on Hill 200. (L-R) LCpl Steve Grandusky, Sgt. Ernie Wallace, and PFC Harkens, Mar '69 (by B. Riley)
Team HANOVER SUE in early 1969. Rear row, LCpl Penniington, Sgt. Gary Beneze,
Sgt Vic Pennington (patrol leader), Doc Ed Brown. The front row Rene Medequari and Jimmy Booker (both were later KIA).
(photo from G. Beneze)
Close Air Support Charlie Three team, taken during a second attack on our patrol. We had moved positions. Close-air is being called in up a finger leading to our harbor site. I actually caught a VC/NVA soldier firing his AK-47 up at one of the F-4s. (photo by Harry Hayes)
A mellow Mark Williams at Camp Reasoner in mid-1969 after winning a Charlie Company shotglass of beer per minute drink-off!
On patrol a Charlie Three team taken between attacks on our position on a ridgeline out in Antenna Valley. We had called in artillery on numerous troops moving in the valley and damned if the enemy didn't come looking for us! Pvt Wolf (left) and LCpl Fish (right).
(Harry Hayes)
Emergency extraction is a photo taken inside a CH-46 following an emergency extraction (Charley Ridge). We had to shoot our way out with the help of those fantastic chopper crews. On the right is Cpl Wilson who was to replace me as the team radioman.
(Harry Hayes)
Delta Company at Northern Training Area, Okinawa in 1965. L/Cpl Larry Foster facing camera-Cpl Tootsie with rifle (left) L/Cpl Wayne Sirois
kneeling (R.Kendall)
Radio relay bunker, LCpl Randy Kendall at An Ton (outside Chu Lai), set up by 8" gun and tank positions. (R. Kendall)
Airstrike as seen from recon radio relay/8" guns and M-48
Tank in foreground. 1966 (R.Kendall)
Bob Baird in Delta Company area at Camp Reasoner holding a captured folding stock type AK47, found in Elephant Valley.
1st Platoon, 1st Force Co. at Ba Na one week after it was destroyed in Aug
67 Standing L-R: LCpl Dave Aurthers, Cpl Ed "Pee
Wee" Palmer. LCpl Ed Unkle. HN
Gary "Doc" Lewis, LCpl
Bill Gilmore (KIA 7 Sep 67). Kneeling: LCpl George Johnson, Cpl
Jerry Maynard
1st Recon Motor Transport 70-71 - Sgt RL Mason 2nd from right, 2nd row. Ssgt. Anderson is to his right and Sgt. T. E. Berens to his left. Sgt. D. R. Stewart is all the way left second row. March '71(RL Mason)
PreSCUBA Class at Monkey Mountain CB Base pool. Cpl Thompson (Bravo-2) and a Lt (???) from Delta Company.(Brian Riley)
Dave Fendrick and Butch Nave in front of the bulletin board at Camp Reasoner. The "Fuck Communism" sign on top was removed several weeks later when someone's mother complained after seeing it in a picture sent home!
Doc Voelker gives a Marine that had too much fun on R&R a dose of penicillin. Guess where?
Chu Lai
Communications hookups during first days of 1st Recon in Chu Lai in
Mar 66 (by Wayne Sirois).
1st Recon personnel loading onto an HRS-34 helicopter at
a Special Forces camp (by Wayne Sirois).
A pair of Ontos arrive at Chu Lai (by Wayne Sirois).
ARVN troops arrive at 1st Recon, LZ Quail, Chu Lai
1966 (by Wayne Sirois).
HRS-34 helicopters (Grasshoppers) arrive at LZ Quail at Chu Lai in 1966 (Wayne Sirois)
