3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 3rd Tank Battalion.
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Vietnam Photo’s and Captions from Pete Ritch, BRAVO Co., 3rd Tank Battalion, from approximately October 1968 through November 1969. My entire tour was spent in I Core where places like the Rock Pile, Washout, Con Thien, Vandergrift, Dong Ha, Quang Tri and the DMZ were places we laid our tracks. |
 Sgt. Dale Sandifer and Lt. Pete Ritch at BRAVO Co. Headquarters 1969 |
 Cpl. Jack Butcher and unknown Marine. |
 Lt. Karrigan, Pete Ritch, and (can’t remember his name) at Navy Commendation Award Ceremony at BRAVO Co. Headquarters on Route 9 between Dong Ha and Vandergrift. Let me know if you can identify the other Lt. in the picture. He was in charge of three Armored Personnel Carriers on loan from the Army. |
 Lt. Pete Ritch with a 9mm pistol captured from an NVA officer during a ground clearing operation near Con Tien. |
 Steve Devaney and crew members on Ghost Rider, May 1969. Let me know if you can identify any of the crew members. |
 BRAVO 32, Girl Watcher, running the beach from Cua Viet to Oceanview. We ran in the surf to avoid land mines. September 1969. |
 Staff Sgt. Jim Jewel and Pete Ritch enjoying a warm Miller beer in a houch at Camp Vandergrift. August 1969. |
 BRAVO Co. volleyball court where we were training for the Olympics. July 1969. |
 Sgt. Soto firing a 50 caliber machine gun at enemy position near Camp Vandergrift, July 1969. |
 A tanker’s nightmare! An NVA land mine found on a road sweep near the DMZ, April 1969. |
 BRAVO Co. Tank Retriever assisting BRAVO 33 with track lost due to a land mine, April 1969. Let me know if you can identify any of the Marines in the picture. |
 Chopper extracting a five-man Marine Re-con Team from the south boarder of the DMZ, July 1969. Hopefully you can see the five team members clinging to the extraction ropes. |
 Pete Ritch after the Bronze Star Award Ceremony at BRAVO Co., April 1969. |
Third
Platoon BRAVO Co. with a Flame Tank on an operation with the ARVN
(notice how they ride on the tank rather than hump). Flame Tank
taking out a bunker complex that we came across.1969. Tanks driving in. |
 Flame tank fires into bunker complex. |
 Fireball from ammo in bunker. |
 Notice the Marine Tankers working on the track while the Flame Tank is doing its’ thing, September 1969 |