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277 viewsBobcat Charlie 23 (our track) in the Iron Triangle, an enemy stronghold dating back to the 1940s and the days of the Viet Minh. Because of heavy enemy activities, bulldozers dug trenches to lower the silhouette of our tracks on the company perimeter, making them more difficult targets for enemy RPG gunners.
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265 viewsFiring my AK-47 on fully automatic, the only time I did so in combat. I look cool, but the recoil is knocking me backward; my toes are off the ground. On this day we flushed a squad of VC into an open rice paddy to our front.
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Roger Hayes Charlie Company 1967 -1968353 views
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360 viewsPreparing for an overnight ambush patrol from Tay Ninh. Tom Kirkham, on his second tour with our squad, is in the center. Ted (Chad) Chadwick is on the right wearing tiger stripes he bought from the locals, that were too short. I didn't go anywhere without lots of ammo.
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280 viewsCaption: A two-story bunker on the heavily fortified perimeter of the Cu Chi base camp. Barnett, Slagle, and I performed numerous shifts of guard duty in bunkers like this one while recuperating from wounds, with two of us on crutches. The camp was unknowingly built over an enemy tunnel complex.
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370 viewsHere's a map of Cu Chi. Someone gave it to me--I think it was Hack--and it was drawn by a REMF who drove around in a jeep with a clipboard on his knee, filling in the black spaces. I know Cu Chi was oval-shaped rather than rectangular, but this is pretty close.
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254 viewsOn May 23 entering Cu Chi for the first time in six months, with a huge cumulonimbus cloud as a backdrop. The sign reads, "Walk facing traffic."
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The Dust-off298 viewsTwo wounded soldiers being medically evacuated. This was known as a dust-off, named for the dust and debris kicked up by the helicopter rotors during the approach to the landing zone. Almost everyone in our company received a ride in one of these dust-off choppers. This one was guided in by yellow smoke.
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"On Point"409 viewsA cropped version of this picture was used on the cover of my book, On Point, which won the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Book Award. I took this picture during a firefight in the Ho Bo Woods. Notice the damage to tree limbs by shrapnel and intense small arms fire. Three soldiers are hunkered down anticipating enemy fire while attempting to see what's going on and identify targets. But the reason I took the picture is the fourth soldier standing to the left of the crouched individuals with his back to the camera.He's taking a leak. Little did I know that this would one day end up on the cover of my book.
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309 viewsCaption: Dennis (Hack) Hackin and village kids inside a family hootch. Children loved to have their pictures taken even though most would never see the results. The villages were almost always devoid of young men.
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332 viewsHousecleaning day during a stand-down in the Tay Ninh base camp. Hack is on the top of the track while Big John (John Lewis) performs preventive maintenance on the left-side tread. Bob (Bo) Smith is cleaning an M79 grenade launcher in the right foreground.
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299 viewsTraveling at 35mph on our track, seated in the jeep seat that my squad scrounged and presented to me. The headset provided communications with Hack, our driver, and the rest of our platoon. A lambretta, a van-sized public bus, had just passed us
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