Things seen around the Central
Highlands . . .
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Searchlight
tower
on Artillery Hill
Photo: 15th webmaster
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French statue
on Arty Hill-
Searchlight tower to rear
Dated 3 - 1 - 61
Photo: 15th webmaster
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1-million
candlepower
Xenon searchlight
Photo: 15th webmaster
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The classic Vietnam
"piss tube"
Photo: 15th webmaster
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Flares over
62nd
Maintenance July 4, 1971
Photo: 15th webmaster
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Arch honoring
Buddha's birthday
Photo: 15th webmaster
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Chapel on
Artillery Hill
Photo: 15th webmaster
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Rice paddies
from the air
Photo: 15th webmaster
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Artillery
rounds
"Joes" or "Projos"
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Arachnid on
FB Schueller
Photo: 15th webmaster
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7/15th's OH58
helicopter 'Sundown'
Photo: 15th webmaster
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Claymore mine
LZ Uplift - 1967
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Chinook
lifting a Huey
off LZ Schueller
Photo: 15th webmaster
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Military
Payment
Certificates or "MPC"
'Monopoly Money'
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Integrated
Observation
System (IOS)
Photo: 15th webmaster
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C130 used to
transport troops
Photo: 15th webmaster
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"Wild Things?"
USO girls at EM club
Photo:
15th webmaster
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Vietnamese
manufactured
"spin-off" patch
"HAPPINESS IS..."
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T.J. in the 7/15th
"Swinger" switchboard
bunker on Arty Hill - 71
Photo: 15th webmaster
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Patch from 1971
"Of course you're
the only girl
I ever loved"
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The "tubes" (gun barrels) of 175mm guns had to be
changed after an average of 600 rounds were fired
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Two tubes ready
to be installed
Provided by:
Dennis Heidbreder
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New engine "pack"
& mechanic George Catledge
C Battery- LZ Oasis- 1969
Credit: Dennis Heidbreder
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Chinook
landing
at LZ Schueller
Photo: 15th
webmaster
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C7 resting
in the shade
at LZ Diamondhead
Photo: Chas Hurst
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More
things around the war zone...
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C Btry FDC
An Khe 1970
Photo: Tom Tate
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illumination
rounds
over Pleiku 1970
Photo: Tom Tate
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"i love
peanut
brittle & beer!"
C/7/15 Arty Hill
Photo: Tom Tate
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Weather
station
"Two Bits Hilton"
in 1970
Photo: Tom Tate
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"Pet"
snake of
C/2/32 Arty 1965
Saigon U. staging area
Photo: Bill Van Eck
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George
Catledge holding
a cat that prowled LZ
Diamondhead at night
Photo: Dave Holdorf
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Weekly
spraying on
Artillery Hill in 1971
Photo:
15th webmaster
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Replacing
the tube
on a 175mm gun at
Firebase Charlie 2
Photo: Ed Eoleyn
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Church
going into
Hue from Phu Bai
Photo: Walter Murley
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Huey
near Cambodian
border in December '65
Photo: Bob Lund
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FSB
Noble - B/1/21st Arty
1st Air Cav - Early 1971
War Zone D
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx
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Sky
Crane crashed
(same one as on the left)
FSB Noble - B/1/21st Arty
Dennis(Frenchy) Proulx
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Peace
symbol from xtra powder
Central Highlands- Kontum
6/14th Arty 1st Field Forces
early 70
Photo: Dennis Proulx
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Church
in Kontum
Central Highlands
6/14th Arty, 1st Field Forces
1970
Dennis Proulx
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Dak
Bla River - 1970
Kontum, Central Highlands
6/14th Arty, 1st Field forces
Photo: Dennis Proulx
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7/15th
Arty Rat Patrol:
(L to R) CPT Dollhausen,
1SG Harryman, & SP4
Wamsley preparing to go
after a group of lost soldiers
somewhere along Hwy 19
towards An Khe, August 1967
Photo: Hans Dollhausen
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FDC
trench of
C/7/15 - April 1968
Photo: Chas Hurst
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C/7/15
at Ban Me
Thuot in 1968
Photo: Chas Hurst
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GMD
for tracking the
'Radiosonde' on
weather balloons
Photo: Kenneth Anderson
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C/6/56th
Artillery
Continuous wave radar
following mortar hit
during LZ Oasis battle
on Mother's Day 1969
Photo: Eddie Donato
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Brick
yard
Central Highlands 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx
6/14th Arty 1st Field Forces
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Brick
ovens
Central Highlands 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx
6/14th Arty 1st Field Forces
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Montagnard
Village
Central Highlands 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx
6/14th Arty 1st Field Forces
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Searchlight
and pet
monkey of crew at
LZ Oasis in early '69
Photo: Eddie Donato
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Shower
at FSB Aries
Early '71 - 1st Air Cav
B Btry, 1/21st Arty
Photo: Frenchy Proulx
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Old
reliable 3/4 ton
Kontum, Central Highlands
6/14th Artillery - 1970
Photo: Dennis Proulx
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Slick
near FSB Aries
Early '71 - 1st Air Cav
B Btry, 1/21st Arty
Photo: Frenchy Proulx
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A/7/15
Jeep after
hitting a landmine
near LZ Pony
Photo: David Nelson
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Command
APC - 1970
in Korea on the DMZ
Photo: LTC John D. Weil
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Catholic
church in
the coastal region of
Vietnam during the war
Photo: LTC Simpson
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Tea
Plantation on the
way to LZ Oasis - 1968
Photo: LTC Simpson
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Water
wheel used by
Vietnamese farmers
Photo: LTC Simpson
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5/22
Arty deuce and
a half hit a land mine
Photo: Jim Baggett
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Mined
truck of 7/13th
Arty on way to LZ Pony
in 506 Valley - early 1969
Photo: Charlie Jefferson
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Blivits
for refueling
Hueys with JP-4
Photo: Jim Bracewell
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Big
Bird
Photo: Robert Plumtree
HQ NZ V Force 1967-68
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'Cheap
Charlie'
Photo: Robert Plumtree
HQ NZ V Force 1967-68
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Sampan
Photo: Robert Plumtree
HQ NZ V Force 1967-68
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75mm
shell
and stand
Photo: Dan Gillotti
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NVA
dozer
Photo: Don Aird
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NVA
rockets at
entrance
Photo: Don Aird
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NVA
weapons
on display
Photo: Don Aird
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Shaving
cream battle at
'Cannon Cockers Cafe'
Photo: Don Aird
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Treehouse
Photo: Lenny Salvo
C/2/32
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