7 Bacon from Georgia next to a M60 machine gun Hue/Phu Bai , Vietnam
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10 Mozley on the beach. Chu Lai, Vietnam 1967.
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12 Bacon, Hue/Phu Bai, Viet Nam
13 Small villiage on Highway one between Danang and Phu Bai
14 Brinkley holding a funnel while the helicopter is refueled.
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19 Our camp at Hue/Phu Bai, Viet Nam
20 Dennis Tuckosh playing with "Cherry" he camp dog. Chu Lai Vietnam.
21 Brinkley(Birds) in the back. I saw Brinkley when I returned from Vietnam at Fort Riley, Kansas. He was with a group being sent back to Vietnam. I never saw him again. Noah Harrelson in the middle.
22 Stockey and Mozley near a well in a Vietnamese village.
23 This building in Hue where some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam war took place. Beginning the night of January 31, 1968 during the celebration of Tet (Named for the lunar new year holiday called Tet). 150 Marines, 400 South Vietnamese troops and an estimated 5,000 Communist soldiers were killed.
24 Bacon messing around with a 50 Cal machine gun in our tent, Hue/Phu Bai, Viet Nam
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40 This helicopter was called the Loach and was shot down near Hue, Phu Bai.
41 This helicopter was called the Loach and was shot down near Hue, Phu Bai.
42 This helicopter was called the Loach and was shot down near Hue, Phu Bai.
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48 This helicopter was called the Loach and was shot down near Hue, Phu Bai.
49 This helicopter was called the Loach and was shot down near Hue, Phu Bai.
50 The Huey Cobra with rocket tubes on both side and M-79 grenade launcher on the turret underneath.
51 Flight training, Fort Eustis, Virginia
52 Flight training, Fort Eustis, Virginia
53 Huey Cobra in camp for mechanical repair.
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61 My home for six months at Hue/Phu Bai, Viet Nam. 15TC Battalion, First Air Cav.
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68 Our camp at Hue/Phu Bai, Viet Nam 1968. Kneeling L-R Jim Shaffner and Graves. Phu Bai, Viet Nam 1968. 15 TC Battalion, First Air Cav.
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84 Ft. Eustus, Virginia. M-60 machine gun training.
85 Crew Chief during training at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
86 Jim Shaffner suiting up for the first flight on a Huey helicopter being trained to load and fire a M-60 machine gun, Fort Eustis, Virginia. My next assignment after this trainingg was finished was a tour of duty in Vietnam.
87 Jim Shaffner suiting up for the first flight on a Huey helicopter being trained to load and fire a M-60 machine gun, Fort Eustis, Virginia. My next assignment after this trainingg was finished was a tour of duty in Vietnam
88 Ft. Eustus, Virginia Butch holding M-60 machine gun rounds on a day of actualM-60 machine gun training.
89 Jim Shaffner, Fort Eustis Virgina.
90 Graduation day Ft. Eustis Virginia. Butch kneeling Jim Shaffner standing in the center.