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339 viewsAfter a period of 170-days, a division record, so we were told, we returned to our main base camp. The company paused in this rice paddy to tie unit-identifying pennants to our radio antennas prior to entering Cu Chi. In the foreground is Plt. Sgt. Cattrell, 2d Platoon, Charlie Company.
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482 viewsTran Ngoc Bich, whose name means The Emerald of the Tran Family, outside the mess hall at Dau Tieng where she worked. While I was recuperating from my last wound, we became close friends. When I left Vietnam, she accompanied me to the air strip to say good-bye, the only person to do so. We corresponded for several years after I returned home.
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300 viewsThe village of Cu Chi from the .50 caliber machinge gun turret on the top of a track. Note machine gun barrel. With its dirt road, modest hootches, and plentiful women and children, Cu Chi was a typical village. Nearby is the main base camp for the 25th Infantry Division.
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