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Alpha Co – 5th Tanks

August 24, 2010/by admin

    Alpha 5th Tks

    Mike Fischer, Don Gehl

    Jim Raasch

    Alpha 5th

    FUJIMO “F#$k You Jack Im Moving On”

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    H&S Co – 3rd Tanks

    August 24, 2010/by admin

      Ammo Run from H&S

      H&S Co 1967

      H&S Co 67

      H & S Quang Tri

      Harry Ringo

      Platoon

      Duty Squad

      3rd Tanks

      3rd Tanks

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      Charlie Co – 3rd Tanks

      August 24, 2010/by admin

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        Bravo Co – 3rd Tanks

        August 24, 2010/by admin

          Repairing mine damage Bravo 3rd 1st Plt 65/66

          Bravo 3rd 1st Plt 65/66

          Jack Kenna 65/66

          Bravo 3rd !st Plt 65/66

          Bravo 3rd 1st Plt 65/66 Mine Damage

          Bravo 3rd 1st Plt 65/66 Mine damage

          VC POW’s

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          Bravo 3rd 1st Plt 65/66 Mine damage

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          Bravo 3rd 1st Plt 65/66 Mine damage

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          Alpha Co – 3rd Tanks

          August 24, 2010/by admin

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            Aug 69, Tuna, Stewart, Tuttle, Smitty, Mac, Tennesse, Dick, Foxie

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            Mac McKee June 69 C-@

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            Alpha Co. Before going home from Okinawa 1970

            Alpha-12 Rockpile july 69

            Aug 69, Tuna, Stewart, Tuttle, Smitty, Mac, Tennesse, Dick, Foxie

            Bobby Traps outside of Charlie-2

            Steak and beer bash after Idaho Caynon, Rockpile 69

            Turtle heading Home

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            H&S Co – 1st Tanks

            August 24, 2010/by admin

              Charley 23 and H&S 1st Tks

              H&S 69-70

              Flame 12 H&S 1st Tks

              Flame 13

              H 56 Iron Butterfly

              Kenneth Eksterowlez 69-70 H&S

              Two unidentified 1811’s at Bn HQ , presumably for maintenance

              Jim Swinnie and Dick Kurst doing some 1st echelon maintenance on S4 jeep

              Danny Phenniger and Roger “Lump” Guarino.

              Carmine “Monte” Montemarano, XO’s driver and Ken Morrissey, Bn CO’s driver on F51

              Sgt. Bob “Frenchy” Fontenot, H&S Tank Platoon Sgt.

              John D. Ball, H&S Company Security Force

              Capt. Joe Winther, H&S CO with Gunny Ferriter, the Bn. Career SNCOIC

              Sgt.John Morganthaler, Battalion ops

              Battalion Tank Maintenance area, early 1967

              H&S Tankers Leslie Dalton, Tom Baranski, and Larry Zuley

              Lt Jim Ray with indigenous Vietnamese

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              Charlie Co – 1st Tanks

              August 24, 2010/by admin

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                Bravo Co – 1st Tanks

                August 24, 2010/by admin


                  Bravo -35 aboard Pt. Defiance 1965

                  Damage To B-55 (Flames) (1)

                  Flame Tank at Chu Lai

                  Jessie Salinas and The Bean Burner

                  Am Tracs ChuLai 1965

                  Ann Margret Chu Lai 1965

                  B-11 Tank, Bravo Co, 1st Tanks, Chu Lai 1965

                  B-12 Tank, Bravo Co, 1st Tanks, Chu Lai 1965

                  B-54 Tank, Bravo Co, 1st Tanks, Chu Lai 1965

                  Bravo 1st Tanks HQ Tent, Chu Lai 1965

                  Bravo Co, 1st Tanks, Chu Lai 1965

                  Bravo Co. CO & XO Tent Chu Lai 1965

                  Chu Lai 1965

                  Cpl James Renforth – Bravo 1st Tanks, Chu Lai 1965

                  Cpl James Renforth – the cargo trailer I lived in for part of my time

                  James Renforth and Kenneth Wilson, Camp Hansen, Okinawa 1965

                  James Renforth, Bravo 1st Tanks, Okinawa 1965

                  M-54 Cargo Truck, 6×6, 5-Ton – with fsme M48A3, 52-Ton Tanks in the background

                  Sgt Mincey, Bravo 1st Tanks, Chu Lai 1965

                  Sgt William Mincey, Bravo 1st Tanks, Chu Lai 1965

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                  Alpha Co – 1st Tanks

                  August 24, 2010/by admin

                    Alpha Co. Okinawa 65 b4 Nam PFC Martin Steele is in this picture

                    Top row 4th from right James Manson 7th from right 2nd row LCP James Jaggers

                    Hue tank with wounded life Magazine

                    Charles Hiltz

                    Charles Hiltz Cpl Sena at An Hoa,

                    4th PLT An Hoa

                    Med Cruise 1970

                    An Hoe Base shower

                    1st Tanks

                    1st Tanks

                    Operation Mameluke Thrust

                    Weapons cache

                    A-11 mine damage

                    1st Tanks

                    1st Tanks

                    Go Noi Island Roundup

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                    Washington D C 1999 Historic first reunion Photos

                    June 24, 2010/by admin

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                      The Home of the Commandant

                      Greeting guests at 8th and Eye

                      Evening Parade at 8th and Eye

                      Dick Carey collects the money

                      Dick Carey and Carl Flash Fleischmann

                      Dick Carey and Bob Peavey (a)

                      Dick Carey addresses the group

                      John Wear, Dick Carey and Bob Peavey

                      Dick Carey presents Howard Blum – Copy

                      Dick Carey Greets Guests

                      Evening Chow

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