Photos of Firebases
and Landing Zones
in Vietnam

Burning the shit barrels in Nam
8:00am   Burning the crap barrels
101st at FSB Veghel
Photo: Don Aird


INDEX
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An Khe - the "Golf Course"
   

The "Golf Course" at An Khe

An Khe in the early days

The 1st Cav at An Khe
East side looking West.
RVN-1966  Photo by:
John Nielsen, Aviator
A Troop 1/9th Cav

   

An Khe in the
early days of
1967
Photo: Jim Bracewell
Co B, 229th Avn Bn

   

An Khe in the early days

C-130 off the end of the Golf Course runway

An Khe in the
early days
Photo: Jim Bracewell
Co B, 229th Avn Bn

   

C-130 ran out
of runway landing
at the Golf Course
Photo: Jim Bracewell

   

FSB Aries
   

Huey 'Slicks' at FSB Aries

FSB Aries resupply by a Chinook

FSB Aries- March 71
Slicks bringing grunts out
War Zone D
B/1/21st Arty- 1st Air Cav
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

FSB Aries- March 71
War Zone D
Resupply/Chinook
B/1/21st Arty- 1st Air Cav
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

FSB Aries 105mm

Slicks of the 1st Air Cav at FSB Aries

FSB Aries 105's
March 71 - War Zone D
B/1/21st Arty 1st Air Cav
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

1st Air Cav 'Slicks'
on the ground
B/1/21st Arty 1st Air Cav
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

Frenchy and his buddies at Aries in 1971

FSB Aries in early '71
1st Air Cav, 1/21st Arty
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

FB Aquarius
   

Sign at Firebase Aquarius

Firebase Aquarius

C Btry 2/17th Arty
Shoot, Move & Communicate
THE GUNS OF AQUARIUS
Photo: Michael Burke

   

Firebase Aquarius
C Btry 2/17th Arty
Late 1970 - Early 1971
Photo: Michael Burke

   

FSB Athena
   

FSB Athena fire mission

175mm gun

FSB Athena - 175sp
Kontum - early 1970
C Btry 6/14th Arty
1st Field Forces
Photo: Dennis Proulx

   

C Battery 175mm
6/14th Arty - 1970
FSB Athena
1st Field Forces
Photo: Dennis Proulx

   

Ba To
   

Entry to Ba To Special Forces Camp

Ba To Special Forces Camp

Entry sign read:
"The battered
  bastards of Ba To"

Photo: Jim Bracewell

   

Ba To Special
Forces Camp
in 1967
Photo: Jim Bracewell

   

LZ Baldy
   

LZ Baldy

LZ Baldy

LZ Baldy
February 1968
Photo: Robert Flynn

   

LZ Baldy
1968
Photo: Robert Flynn

   

LZ Baldy airstrip

LZ Baldy rock bunker

LZ Baldy airstrip
1968
Photo: Robert Flynn

   

LZ Baldy - 1968
rock bunker
Photo: Robert Flynn

   

LZ Blackhawk
   

Deadly Dealer II

"Deadly Dealer II"
A Btry 7/15 FA
July 21, 1970
Photo: Gary McBride

    

LZ Buffalo
   

LZ Buffalo




LZ Buffalo - 1/92nd
Route QL19 - 1971
Photo: 15th webmaster

   



   

Bu Prang
   

Montagnard gun crew near Bu Prang

Bu Prang 105

SF 105 at Camp A-236
Montagnard gun crew
on a 105mm M101A1
Photo: Mike Burke 1970

   

Special Forces fire
mission called into
A-236 by an F.O.
Photo: Mike Burke 1970

   

Chu Lai
   
 

Chu Lai can be seen in the background across the bay

Entrance to D/6/56 Arty
Chu Lai is across bay
in the background
Photo: Edward Donato

   

FSB Currahee
   

FSB Currahee

FB Currahee

First known as Ta Bat.
On the floor of A Shau,
a few clicks from Dong Ap
Bia (Hamburger Hill) 1969
Photo: Roger Dent

    

B/2/11 Arty went in with
all 6 guns and an Infantry
platoon on 9 or 10 May
1969
Photo: Roger Dent

   

Cobra and peace lovers at FSB Currahee

Griffins 66, C/co,101st ARA

Cobra and peace signs
at the firebase in 1969
Photo: 'Raspberry' Reed

   

Cobra - Griffins 66
C Co, 101st ARA
Photo: 'Raspberry' Reed

   

Sky crane at FSB Currahee

Huey gunship at FSB Currahee in 1969

Sky crane
over Currahee
Photo: 'Raspberry' Reed

   

Huey gunship
in 1969
Photo: 'Raspberry' Reed

   

FSB Currahee from the air

Operation Apache Snow in the Ashau Valley

Aerial shot of
firebase in 1969
Photo: 'Raspberry' Reed


   

Operation 'Apache
Snow' was staged
here in 1969
Photo: 'Raspberry' Reed

   

Dak To
   

Air view of DakTo

Dak To
Photo: E. Ray Austin

   

FB Doris K
   

Firebase Doris K near Ban Me Thuot

C Btry 2/17th Arty, 1970
Ban Me Thuot
Photo: Michael Burke

   

LZ English
   

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LZ English
1968
Photo: Robert Flynn

   

LZ English
1968
Photo: Robert Flynn

   

FSB Green
   

Directing fire from Cobra gunships at FSB Green

Teaching NFG how to
direct Cobra fire into
treeline - 1st Air Cav
1/21st Arty
Dennis (Frenchy) Proulx

   

LZ Hammond
   

'Bird Dog' flying out of LZ Hammond

LZ Hammond

O-1 Bird Dog flying out
of LZ Hammond used by
Air Observers for 7/15th
Photo: Hans Dollhausen

   

LZ Hammond
in 1966
Photo: Jim Bracewell
Co B, 229th Avn Bn

   

Jim Bracewell in front of his Huey at LZ Hammond

Pilot Jim Bracewell
next to Huey in 1966
Photo: Jim Bracewell

   

FSB Henderson
   

FSB Henderson

FSB Henderson

'Outgoing Freight'
FSB Henderson
B Btry 2/11 Arty
May 1970
Photo: Ed Schultz

   

FSB Henderson
the next day.
B Btry 2/11 Arty
May 1970
Photo: Ed Schultz

   

FSB Illingsworth
   

LZ Illingsworth

LZ Illingsworth

A/2/32 following a fierce
battle for the firebase
Photo: Ralph Jones

   

A/2/32 lost 3 men here, and
a total of 24 Americans died.
Photo: Ralph Jones

   

Eight-inch Howitzer following battle

Eight-inch being righted
after battle April 1, 1970
Photo: Ralph Jones

   

LZ Jenny
   

LZ Jenny

Photo: Chas Hurst

   

LZ Joan
   

Land mine victim

Land mine victim
Duc Co
Photo: Dave Fogg

   

Kontum
   

Kontum FDC in 1970

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C Btry 6/14th Arty
1st Field Forces
FDC Kontum 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx


   

Tank(dead) on perimeter
Kontum, Central Highlands
Tank was supposed to scare
VC (ARVN's thought) - 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx

   

FSB Lash
   

FSB Lash following a 'Daisy Cutter' drop to prep the area for 2/11 Airmobile insertion

FSB Lash during operation "Massachusetts Striker"

"Daisy Cutter" bomb
dropped to prep FSB
Lash for 2/11 Airmobile
Photo: Roger Dent

   

FSB Lash during Op
"Massachusetts Striker"
2nd Bn / 11th Artillery
Photo: Roger Dent

   

LZ Lowboy
   

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LZ Lowboy
Photo: Duane Geisen

   

FSB Noble
   

After a 'Daisy Cutter' cleared FSB Noble

B Battery/1st Bn/21st Artillery - 1st Cav

After "Daisy Cutter"
cleared the area
B Btry 1/21st Arty
1st Air Cav early 71
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

FSB Noble- Feb 71
War Zone D- 105's
B/1/21st Arty- Ist Cav Div
Dennis(Frenchy)Proulx


   

Shower at FSB Noble

Resupply Chinook

Showers at FSB Noble
Feb 71 - War Zone D
B/1/21st Arty- 1st Air Cav
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

Resupply Chinook
1st Air Cav - Early '71
1/21st Artillery
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

Plei Djereng
   

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Howitzer gun pit at Plei Djereng

One of two 175mm
guns at New Plei
Djereng - 1967
Photo: Kenneth Anderson

   

M110 8-inch
Howitzer gun pit
in 1967
Photo: Kenneth Anderson

   

175mm gun launching a round from Plei Djereng

175mm gun firing in
Fall 1969 - 6/14 Arty
Photo: Charlie Jefferson

   

Plei Me
   

SF Camp Plei Mi

This SF Camp was
over-run in '66
Photo: 'Raspberry' Reed

   

FSB Rendezvous
   

FSB Rendezvous from the air

FSB Rendezvous

8-inch fired support
for FSB Currahee
Photo: 'Raspberry' Reed

   

Photo: Bernie Shufelt
Radio Platoon, A Co.
501st Signal Bn, 101 Abn Div

   

FSB Rendezvous bunker

FSB Rendezvous smoke

FSB Rendezvous
digging out after the rains
Photo: Bernie Shufelt

   

Chopper crash on pad
below bunker, mid-1969
Photo: Bernie Shufelt

   

LZ Ross
   

Changing 155mm tubes, A Btry, 1st Bn, 30th FA, 1st Air Cav Div, at LZ Ross, January 1968

Changing 155mm tubes
A Btry, 1st Bn, 30th FA,
1st Air Cav Div, at LZ Ross,
Jan 1968.  Photo: 30th FA
Assn & Dan Gillotti

   

LZ Sandy
   

PF bunker at LZ Sandy

Drag racing a 5/4 ton

PF Bunker with
celebration banner
Photo: Jim Baggett

   

Drag racing a
5/4 ton at the LZ
Photo: Jim Baggett

   

The GrandBunker

Satchel charge

GrandBunker with
time capsule nearby
Photo: Jim Baggett

   

Satchel charge brought
into FDC Bunker by PF's
Photo: Jim Baggett

   

FB Six
  

Fire Base 6

Fire Base 6
Photo: E. Ray Austin

   

Tan Cahn
   

Convoy moving thru Tan Cahn

Aftermath of a 122mm rocket attack

Convoy in
Tan Cahn
Photo: E. Ray Austin

   

1970 - Deuce and a half
hit by a 122mm rocket
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

Tan Son Nhut Air Base
   

HAWK missiles of C Battery, 56th Artillery at Tan Son Nhut Air Base

C Battery, 56th Artillery, Orderly Room at Tan Son Nhut in late 1968

C Battery, 56th Artillery
HAWK missiles
in late 1968
Photo: Eddie Donato


   

Looking from main gate
at the Orderly Room of
C Battery, 56th Artillery
in late 1968
Photo: Eddie Donato

   

Looking from main gate toward guard tower 4

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Looking from the gate
toward guard tower 4
in center of photo
Photo: Eddie Donato

   

C Battery area, 56th
Artillery, Americal.
Church was off the base
Photo: Eddie Donato

   

C/6/56th HAWK illuminator "rabbit ears"

SGT Bright on one
of the illuminators
"Rabbit Ears" C/6/56
Photo: Eddie Donato

   

Tay Ninh
   

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HQ sector
6/15th FA
Photo: Dick Brown

   

FSB Veghel
   

FSB Veghel

FSB Veghel

155 battery
Photo: Don Aird

   

Moving a 155
Photo: Don Aird

   

105 at Veghel

Veghel

105 at Veghel
Photo: Don Aird

   

Moving a 155
Photo: Don Aird

   

Chinook lifting a 155 Howitzer

General Abrams visit

Moving a 155
Photo: Don Aird

   

General Abrams visit
Photo: Don Aird

   

Building Veghel

Don Aird at Veghel

Building Veghel
Photo: Don Aird

   

Don Aird at Veghel
Photo: Don Aird

   

Road to Veghel

FDC at Veghel

Road to Veghel
Photo: Don Aird

   

Temporary FDC
Photo: Don Aird


   

  

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