At Con ThienAt the "Rockpile"FDC bunker at Camp Carroll 11/68...FDC Bunker at Dong Ha 11/68FDC crewFDC Tent and bunker at LZ Whitman April of 1969...Buzz Adams and Mecca...Buzz Adams after a serious bout with malaria...Marines waiting for a flight at the Quang Tri air strip...Camp Jj Carroll from the air...Camp Carroll Perimeter looking west towards Laos; Carroll was home to 1/12...Outside the Camp Carroll perimeter...Air strike on Dong Ha mountain...Dong Ha Mountain after air strike...Tents at Camp carroll...Arizona State Flag...1/12 FDCBattalion FDC at the Rockpile...Battalion FDC at Camp Carroll...Then Gunnery Sergeant Jim Jerrel Gio Linh, Operation Highrise" Opps Chief.Bar table in the enlisted club at JJ Carroll. Sorry for the poor quality.LZ Saigon FDCRon Johnson rebuilding HQ hooch'sRon Johnson cataloguing captured North Vietnamese weapons.Captured NVA weapons.Ron Johnson inventorying captured North Vietnamese weapons.Ron Johnson holding a... SNAKE! poison or...C-130 down with bad landing gear.Ron Johnson - River below Rockpile.HQ 1/12 Staff NCO hooch at Camp CarrolSunset at Camp CarrollPassing through Cam Lo on Highway 9 heading west towards Khe Sanh or... East towards Dong Ha...65' tower on NE perimeter at Gio Linh.Scarpa & Benson at Camp CarrollBuzz and friends enjoying a beer after an afternoon of football??? Hmmmmmmm...From the tower at Gio Linh. Pic-FellowsArmy Twin 40 on perimeter. P-FellowsBig Field Glasses looking North at North Vietnam.175 at Gio Linh looking due north into North Vietnam.Nine (9) Marines from India 3/4 were ambushed and killed in action 6 March 1967 in a ville west of Gio Linh. Low ceilings prevented air support and medivac's. The Marines intercepted a battalion of NVA enroute to Cam Lo to attack the refugee compound.A 106 recoiless rifle mounted on a "mule."Trenchline at Gio Linh with smoke rising from an air strike in the background.Perimeter at Con ThienConvoy moving west on Highway Nine (9)Driver lost his left arm and the shotgun rider was seriously wounded when a command control mine was detonated during a convoy.Another truck is blown during a convoy. Being "in the rear with the gear" was not an easy job... Only a fool would say or think so.Rain stops the convoy.Highway 9 below the "Rockpile."65' foot tower in NE corner of Gio Linh.Looking through the high powered glasses from the tower at Gio Linh.175's started firing not long after arriving at Gio Linh.One of many deseptive sunsets in Vietnam.Mortar team on LZ Whiseman 1969.Captured NVA WeaponsMore of the inventory of Captured weapons.Gunny Jim Jerrell near the perimeter at Camp Carroll.God bless Martha Raye; the only American entertainer to travel as far north as Camp Carroll for "the boys" as she put it.Staff NCO hooch at Camp Carroll.25 Mar 1967, Ky,Thieu,Col. Rice rt of white shirt,General Ryan maybe...April 1967 Colonel Rice between General Westmoreland and General Walt at Gio LinhShrapnel hole in Jungle boot.Lieutenant Colonel Rice, battalion commander.Lieutenant Colonel Bill Rice at Gio Linh. Colonel Rice passed away 17 Marrch 2008. he is missed...Captain Guinn, Charlie Battery CO with Vice-Premier Ky at Gio Linh 25 March 1967.Lieutenant Colonel Rice's notes on back of picture. Colonel Rice's noteswill follow the next several photos..Colonel Rice (smiling) leads VP Ky and General Lam. Center rear is General Westmoreland; the date was 25 March 1967, five (5) days after the Communist's first use of artillery since Dien Bien Phu and the defeat of the French in 1954.Gun 5 parapet at Gio Linh March. 1967NVA Artillery damages vehicle inside the Gio Linh firebase 27 April 1967.NVA Artillery damage from 27 April 1967 at Gio Linh.Generator hit by North Vietnamese artillery.Then Captain Dan Bergin, part of the 1/12 deployment at Gio Linh. Lieutenant Colonel Bergin passed away in the year 2006.Entire Allied and South Vietnamese command in Charlie Battery's Gun 5 parapet. What one well placed NVA mortar would have done.
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Earl Clark,  Ron Johnson, Buzz Adams, Jim Jerrell, Ben Skwiercz, Colonel Bill Rice, CO - HQ 1/12
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