Things in Vietnam

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Things seen around the Central Highlands . . .
  

Searchlight tower
on Artillery Hill
Photo: 15th webmaster


   

French statue on Arty Hill-
Searchlight tower to rear
Dated  3 - 1 - 61
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

1-million candlepower
Xenon searchlight
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

The classic Vietnam
"piss tube"
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

Flares over 62nd
Maintenance July 4, 1971
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

Arch honoring
Buddha's birthday
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

Chapel on
Artillery Hill
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

Rice paddies
from the air
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

Artillery rounds
"Joes" or "Projos"

   

Arachnid on FB Schueller
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

7/15th's OH58
helicopter 'Sundown'
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

Claymore mine
LZ Uplift - 1967


   

Chinook lifting a Huey
off LZ Schueller
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

Military Payment
Certificates or "MPC"
'Monopoly Money'

   

Integrated Observation
System (IOS)
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

C130 used to
transport troops
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

"Wild Things?" 
USO girls at EM club
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

Vietnamese manufactured
"spin-off" patch
"HAPPINESS IS..."

   

T.J. in the 7/15th
"Swinger" switchboard
bunker on Arty Hill - 71
Photo: 15th webmaster

   

Patch from 1971
"Of course you're
  the only girl
  I ever loved"

   

The "tubes" (gun barrels) of 175mm guns had to be
changed after an average of 600 rounds were fired
   

Two tubes ready
to be installed
Provided by:
Dennis Heidbreder

   

New engine "pack"
& mechanic George Catledge
C Battery- LZ Oasis- 1969
Credit: Dennis Heidbreder

   

Chinook landing
at LZ Schueller
Photo: 15th webmaster


   

C7 resting
in the shade
at LZ Diamondhead
Photo: Chas Hurst

   

More things around the war zone...
   

C Btry FDC
An Khe 1970
Photo: Tom Tate

   

illumination rounds
over Pleiku 1970
Photo: Tom Tate

   

"i love peanut
  brittle & beer!"
C/7/15 Arty Hill
Photo: Tom Tate

   

Weather station
"Two Bits Hilton"
  in 1970
Photo: Tom Tate

   

"Pet" snake of
C/2/32 Arty 1965
Saigon U. staging area
Photo: Bill Van Eck

   

George Catledge holding
a cat that prowled LZ
Diamondhead at night
Photo: Dave Holdorf

   

Weekly spraying on
Artillery Hill in 1971
Photo: 15th webmaster


   

Replacing the tube
on a 175mm gun at
Firebase Charlie 2
Photo: Ed Eoleyn

   
   

Church going into
Hue from Phu Bai
Photo: Walter Murley


   

Huey near Cambodian
border in December '65
Photo: Bob Lund


   

FSB Noble - B/1/21st Arty
1st Air Cav - Early 1971
War Zone D
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

Sky Crane crashed
(same one as on the left)
FSB Noble - B/1/21st Arty
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx

   

Peace symbol from xtra powder
Central Highlands- Kontum
6/14th Arty 1st Field Forces
early 70
Photo: Dennis Proulx

   

Church in Kontum
Central Highlands
6/14th Arty, 1st Field Forces
1970
Dennis Proulx

   

Dak Bla River - 1970
Kontum, Central Highlands
6/14th Arty, 1st Field forces
Photo: Dennis Proulx





   

7/15th Arty Rat Patrol: 
(L to R) CPT Dollhausen,
1SG Harryman, & SP4
Wamsley preparing to go
after a group of lost soldiers
somewhere along Hwy 19
towards An Khe, August 1967
Photo: Hans Dollhausen

   

FDC trench of
C/7/15 - April 1968
Photo: Chas Hurst

   

C/7/15 at Ban Me
Thuot in 1968
Photo: Chas Hurst

   

GMD for tracking the
'Radiosonde' on
weather balloons
Photo: Kenneth Anderson



   

C/6/56th Artillery
Continuous wave radar
following mortar hit
during LZ Oasis battle
on Mother's Day 1969
Photo: Eddie Donato

   

Brick yard
Central Highlands 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx
6/14th Arty 1st Field Forces

   

Brick ovens
Central Highlands 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx
6/14th Arty 1st Field Forces

   

Montagnard Village
Central Highlands 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx
6/14th Arty 1st Field Forces

   

Searchlight and pet
monkey of crew at
LZ Oasis in early '69
Photo: Eddie Donato


   

Shower at FSB Aries
Early '71 - 1st Air Cav
B Btry, 1/21st Arty
Photo: Frenchy Proulx

   

Old reliable 3/4 ton
Kontum, Central Highlands
6/14th Artillery - 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx

   

Slick near FSB Aries
Early '71 - 1st Air Cav
B Btry, 1/21st Arty
Photo: Frenchy Proulx

   

A/7/15 Jeep after
hitting a landmine
near LZ Pony
Photo: David Nelson

   

Command APC - 1970
in Korea on the DMZ
Photo: LTC John D. Weil


   

Catholic church in
the coastal region of
Vietnam during the war
Photo: LTC Simpson

   

Tea Plantation on the
way to LZ Oasis - 1968
Photo: LTC Simpson

   

Water wheel used by
Vietnamese farmers
Photo: LTC Simpson

   

5/22 Arty deuce and
a half hit a land mine
Photo: Jim Baggett

   

Mined truck of 7/13th
Arty on way to LZ Pony
in 506 Valley - early 1969
Photo: Charlie Jefferson

   

Blivits for refueling
Hueys with JP-4
Photo: Jim Bracewell

   

Big Bird
Photo: Robert Plumtree
HQ NZ V Force 1967-68

   

'Cheap Charlie'
Photo: Robert Plumtree
HQ NZ V Force 1967-68

   

Sampan
Photo: Robert Plumtree
HQ NZ V Force 1967-68

   

75mm shell
and stand
Photo: Dan Gillotti

   

NVA dozer
Photo: Don Aird


   

NVA rockets at
entrance 
Photo: Don Aird

   

NVA weapons
on display
Photo: Don Aird

   

Shaving cream battle at
'Cannon Cockers Cafe'
Photo: Don Aird

   

Treehouse
Photo: Lenny Salvo
C/2/32