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Lai Khe Hootch View662 viewsCraig Tonjes Photo

Lai Khe hootch (Dorm)
Mike Jett, Jess Findley, Daryll Booth, Tom Carson, Glen Clements, Bill Bailey and John Culhane
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Chinook Going Down 661 viewsPhoto provided by Bob Witt

Taken from Tiger April 1968
This is from an 8mm film that Lt. Sprayberrys Battalion surgeon took from the top of Tiger. The AC & CP walked into Sprayberry's perimeter 2 days later after E&E. They followed the sound of chain saws they heard being used on the LZ.
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Our area on the morning after660 viewsBob Kelly Photo

My Carbine. Our refridgerator. sprayer for agent orange. Tent knocked down. Our bunker facing ammo dump. Ernie and I back from battalion luckily did not step on live ammo or geet shot by friendlies.
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Lai Khe Revetments660 viewsHoward Burbank Photo
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Operation Golf Course, An Khe659 viewsPhoto by Marvin Wolf, PIO photographer, 1CAV

Operation Golf Course was the mission of the advance party, to clear the triple canopy jungle while minimizing damage to the grass below it. This involved backbreaking labor by the senior noncoms and field grades that made up most of the advance party (the rifle company that came along was not involved in clearing jungle because they were screening our expanding perimeter). We did not have a bulldozer or other earth moving equipment, so we used axes, a few small chainsaws (they were all o/a by the end of one week, machetes, Bowie knives, shovels, and two jeep winches. Once we were attacked in force and our position and mission no longer secret, we recruited thousands of local laborers (the mothers, children and grandparents of the local VC) to clear the area. That's what the shot shows. So it's not an operation at the Golf Course, it's Operation Golf Course, the mission of creating space for hundreds of helicopters that were then at sea. This photo was taken the first week of September 1965.
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Phan Thiet POL with Scotty Colligan (left) 1967 658 viewsJP Edwards Photo

The individual on the right, wearing a helmet, is identified as Eddy Esposti, Gunner, (by Wayne Driver).
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John Deaton658 viewsGuy Sparrow Photo
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Crew Chiefs Schlaudraff, King & Stevens656 viewsMilo (Mike) Schlaudraff Photo

Left to Right:
Crew Chiefs Mike Schlaudraff, James King, and Chuck Stevens at the base camp in An Khe
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Some of the guys656 viewsBill Flora Photo

Paul Sage, Jim Lietzen, Ron Lazenby, Mike Collins and two unknowns
Lai Khe
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Deros Center at An Khe655 viewshttp://b68mustangs.com/photopage39/photopage39.html
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My Bird655 viewsRick Korbel Photo

Lai Khe 68 - 69
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Charlie Company Bad Day at the Office653 viewsJay Dirnberger Photo
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