| Our 7.62 cal. machinegun (starboard side-bow) if foreground and good shot of PBR's |
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Full view of Mike Boat later called SEAL's Mini Battleship
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| Port side con area |
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2 POW's (Charlie) enjoying our first class accomidations next to our 81mm mortar with piggyback 50 cal. machinegun |
| View of the stern
which has a 50 cal. machinegun with a piggy back Honeywell 40mm grenade
launcher (250 grenades a minute-belt fed). This was our stinger |
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View of port bow |
| View of port
midships |
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Our 106mm Recoiless Rifle mounted
over the con. It was later relocated over the wooden well deck top. We
frequently fired flachette rounds (50,000 tiny finned darts) when in close
to the beach |
| View of port side showing original canvas top |
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View of starboard side (bow) 7.62 machinegun |
| Con |
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106mm on the wooden welldeck top |
| View of the
sleeping quarters in the well deck, only complaint was that we did not
have maid service on board. |
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Heading out on one of our
10 hour rides to insert the team. |
| Starboard stern 50
cal. machinegun |
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Yours truly behind the wheel |
| Yours truly seated
by the bow wearing a coat. Must have had a freeze come in and the
temperature slightly dropped below 130 degrees. |
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Our Bravo Unit LCPL in action
near Check point Charlie off the Bassic River |
| Yours truly |
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Again yours truly (age 20) |
| 14' Boston Whaler
with your's truly. I inserted the SEAL Teams with this boat more often
than with the IBS. As you can see there was lots to hide behind coming in
on a hot extract. |
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Your's truly bathing with the
crocks in the Mekong River. Actually I was taking advantage of the
situation and looking for a new pair of shoes and maybe a belt. |
| IBS our other
insertion boat. Again not exactly what one would have in mind to be in on
open water with charlie shooting at you or a hungry crock to deal with.
Sometime I'll tell you about the snake that fell from a piece of branch
sticking out of the water in a small back canal. It fell into the boat.
There is 135 species of snake in Vietnam and 132 are poison. |
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This was taken looking out of
our starboard side in a small canal. Charlie had fired on us from the
village and our get tough policy went into effect |
| Hutch on fire |
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Vietcong Chief - snatch and grab
operation. Took a shotgun round to the head. He did not survive. |
| This is a Phantom
Raider that we called in on an estimated 2000 VC and NVA. Photo shows him
dropping napalm, I heard him over the radio say "Got ya". This
was a South China Sea operation near the mouth of the Bassic |
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750 pound bomb from air support |
| SEAL's blowing up a
tunnel under the hay stack |
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Another visitor to our inn called
Charlie |
| Charlie |
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Charlie in the female gender |
| SEAL's returning to
the boat enjoying the smelly river mud |
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Down town MyTho |
| Another charlie,
sporting the latest in terrorist clothing design |
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Our boat at dry dock |
| the rest of the
boat at dry dock. You can see the half pipe we welded over the exhaust
that helped make us quiet |
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The remains of a bunker that we
had trouble with the night before |
| Our flag |
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Typical house on stilts near Ham
Loung. This photo was taken during the time we were man hunting the VC
that killed Seaman David George Quellet on PBR 124. SN Quellet received
the Medal of Honor and was one of our drinking buddies who slept in the
room next to mine. Circa March 7, 1967. |
| Air shot over delta
showing some of the many islands the VC used to hop across. |
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Over delta looking at rivers. |
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