Media Type

Electronic Media

Physical Location

CS65.10D

Number of Media

1

Language(s)

English

Format

CD

Digitized in HD?

No

General Note

CD consists of images of Cobra helicopters, CH47, CH23, loach, Camp Eagle, artillery loads, unit insignia, flight helmets, Vietnamese children, helicopter maintenance, MACV headquarters at Quang Tri, wreckage of a Huey, an operations map, flares, performances for soldiers, fish traps at Da Nang, and a Convoy headed to landing zone Vandergriff. The CD also includes images of aerial views of Nyi Kai, Phu Bai, a beach at Da Nang, Northern Ashua, Hy Vahn Pass, and the first light ranger mission.

General Note

Title: Memories from Vietnam 1968-1969 D Troop 1st Squadron 1st Calvary attached to 2nd Squadron 17th Calvary 101st Airborne Division Contents: 1. Senior Aviator Wings 2: 17 Pounders in triple canopy 3. 19 Ten Pounders up close and personal 4. A Day at Eagle 5. A Foggy Day in Vietnam 6. Abandoned Marine Listening Post 7. Abandoned Marine Listening Post 2 8. Above the Clouds 9. All the Comforts of Home 10. Antenna Farm at Quang Tri 11. APH5 Helmet with Artwork 12. Artillery Load at Quang Tri 13. Between Quang Tri and Vandergriff 14. Beware of the Buffs 16. Blue GIB (Slick Crew Chief who remains nameless) 17. Captured 21 mm from the Ashua Valley 18. Catholic Monastery outside of Hue 19. D/1/1 Snake 20. Crew Chief playing with a mortar parachute 21. CH47 at Eagle POL 22. Getting ready for an Brigade Sized Assault 23. Vietnamese Children along QLI-1 24. China Beach at Da Nang 25. D/1/1 Cav Cobra during a PE 26. Vehicle Convoy on QL1 out of Quang Tri to Vandergriff 27. Coastal Plains in I Corps 28. Countryside in I Corps 29. CPT Ted Cook Troop XO Drinking Coffee at the Coffee Urn 30. CPT Cook at the Coffee Urn 31. CPT Cook drinking coffee before take off 32. “Cubed Out” This H model at Red Beach Maintenance Facility was loaded with parts to come north to Phu Bai. It could not fly over 40 knots going home due to the aerodynamics effect of the rotor blade boxes sticking out of the AC 33. FSB Currahee in the Ashua Valley floor 34. CW2 Dennis Ponsness Slick Platoon 35. CW2 Joe Car Gun Platoon 36. CW2 John Eiss Slicks – Went to B/21/7 with me 37. CW2 Pat Brock Slicks – My Hooch Mate for the first 9 months 38. CW2 Roger Q. Bernanrd Scouts 39. CW2 Steve Michaud 40. CW2 Mike Watkins Guns 41. CW2 Wayne Flhur Scouts D/1/1 first Tour Scouts A2/1’7 Second Tour 42. D/1/1 Slicks in revetments at Camp Eagle 43. Eagle Beach Division R&R site where the troops could play in the surf on Standdown 44. Eagle Tower 45. Slicks Cranking for a first light LRRP mission 46. Fish Traps in South China Sea 47. Flares Stacked for mission 48. Flying Home From Da Nang 49. Flying over the Hy Van Pass 50. French Villa in I Corps 51. FSB Brimingham 52. FSB Veghal 53. Girl on her Buffalo 54. One of D/1/1’s Bun Bunnies (CRS) 55. Harry (Nick name due to hair) (?) 56. Headwater of the Ashua 57. MI Hound at Fort Rucker (Out of Place in photos) 58. Hue 59. D/1/1 Blue humping it in Rice Paddy 60. Hurricane Eagle POL (CH54) 61-63. Three shots of an imperial Tomb near FSB Brimingham 64. It got cold in Vietnam. Here’s the proof (No picture it didn’t happen) 65. Slick on Final to Scabbard Pad 66. Chinese Junk in Bay at Da Nang 67. OH 6 at Nose Bleed Altitude 68. Building up EM hootches at Eagle, note that Officer Tents are still intact. 69. D/1/1 OH6 70. Lolling on the Liber 71. LRRP’s in action 72. LT Rose Gun Bunny 73. LZ Vandergriff Marine Base Camp 74. MACV Hqs building at Quang Tri 75. Mail Call 76. Maintenance Time 77. Marine CH’46’s at Quang Tri. 78. Me after a hard day of flying 79. Mess Hall 80-82. Photos taken the morning after we were hit by a six-day typhoon in late 1968 83. Photo of Scout CE (Name is gone) 84 & 86. Photos of Northern Extremes of the Ashua as we came from Vandy 85. Nui Ky From Camp Eagle. This was the site of the numerous Rocket attacks and some hairy LRRP missions. 87-88. Officer’s country - Our living conditions in Camp Eagle 89. OH’23’s of Division Artillery, D1/1. Brought the first OH-6’s to the 101st 90. Ships lined up at FSB Birmingham D/1/1 often staged out of FSB Birmingham. There was a forward POL Point there 91. One of the few aircraft losses incurred by D/1/1 during our first 9 months 92. This is a shot of the Operations Map in our TOC 92. The Outskirts of Hue 93. A Marine OV-10 stationed at Quang Tri 94. This shot was taken on the eastern edge of the Ashua Valley flying north, looking west 95. A Pachyderm CH-47 at Vandergriff 96. Flying over Phu Bai international Airport 97. This photo is intitled Poor Man it goes hand in hand with the one entitled Rich Man. They were taken to show the difference in burial plots in Vietnam 98. After living through a typhoon in a tent in 1968 we were given word of another one on its way. We boarded up our new hootches to make plans for one that never hit 99. QL 17 the road from Quang Tri to Vandergriff and Que Son 100. On QL1 between Phua Bai and Hue 101. North of Quang Tri on QL1 102. The Village of Quang Tri 103. This shot shows the home of the LRRP’s before the Division started building hootches. It is taken from my tent overlooking the scout birds looking to the East 104. Rich Man’s Grave see poor man 105. Navy River Boat stationed at Eagle Beach 106. This was taken at the intersection of the road from Eagle as you come up on QL 1 107. This is another photo of CW2 Roger Q. Bernard 108. Saber Control Tower 109. Our Unit Call Sign was Sword, and we flew home to Scabbard, this is a shot of home 110. This was taken at FSB Brimingham. It is shot of me and my Gun Bunny. We were staging here and waiting for our mission (Another case of CRS can’t put a name on the face). 111. Another shot of CW2 Watkins 112. We were standing by at Quang Tri and my observer climbed into the cockpit of the snake 113. Construction Battalion Base Camp North of Hue 114. This shot was taken looking out of my tent showing a sea of canvas 115. We finally got a real shower point 116-119. Our shower facilities during our first several months at Eagle. 120-121. This stature of the Sleeping Buddha was northwest of Hue. During Tet of 1968 this statue was completely torn down by the NVA. I watched it be rebuilt from the ground up. 122. A slick aircraft commander hard at work CW2 Ponsness 123. Another shot of a slick at Red Beach, Da Nang 124. A slick at Scabbard 125. Snake driver CW2 Bill Brooks and Co-Pilot 126. D/1/1 Snake 127. South China Sea, Mountains and Clouds in I Corps 128. Sword 21 on CA 129. Sword 21 130. Sword 24 131. Nose Art from D/1/1 Ship belonged to Slick Plt NCOIC 132. Another photo after the 68 typhoon 133. This crash was non hostile, everyone walked away from it with no injuries 134-135. Shots of the Triple Canopy Jungle 135. VC on rice dike 136. Another imperial tomb 137. ME, F. Ray Knight, Jr. Fall 1968 138-139. A relocated Montanyard Village north of Quang Tri 139. Army Aviator Wings