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The 4th/9th Infantry In Combat...RVN 1966-1970

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Co.D 4th/9th 69/70

This is a Cobra chopper pad at Tay Ninh base camp. Looks like the rainy season.

Jim Byle, my assistant squad leader. Jim and I found each other about 2 months ago.

This is Jim Koebnick, my machine gunner, taking a break. Jim and I found each other about a month ago.

Taking a break during a sweep. We are probably having to wait on the RVNS!!

Here is an 8 incher (Howitzer) at French Fort. This was a serious gun! Notice Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain) and Nui Cal in the back ground. We spent some time up there and humped down to Nui Cal to blow an LZ for the 1st Cav.

FSB Stoneman taken from the radar tower. Notice the 105mm gun. Taken about May 1969.

Crossing a canal while conducting a sweep outside FSB Stone-man. This is 3rd platoon.

Another picture of FSB Stoneman. I am on the right and my assistant squad leader is on the left. His name is Krut.

This is yours truly waiting on word for my squad to move out.

Waiting outside the wire to be picked up by choppers for an eagle flight. I believe this is my RTO. Cannot recall his name.

Thanks to Mike Smith for the above pictures.

Co. A&D 4th/9th 67/68

A Co. Camp Martha, near Trang Bang, the two lines toward bottom of sign say: "rotary wing pilots half fare" fixed wing pilots no charge"

Christmas '67, Katum, D Co. Wpns. Plt. Sgt. Floyd (with package) Sgt. Criteser (with Car Craft magazine)

Christmas '67, Katum, D Co. Wpns. Plt. 2nd squad Left to right: Jesse Godwin (Alabama), Larry Criteser (Oreg.), Eugene Johnson (Tex.), Russell Philip (standing, Ill.) Orvill Shoopman (Ken.), Harvey Grimball (La.) W.W. "Tom" Tompkins (Fla.), Ramon Martinez (Puerto Rico)

81MM #2 gun, at Martha A Co.

Resupply of A Co. at Camp Martha during Operation Harry.

Larry and the other kids at the perimeter wire.

Thanks to Larry Criteser for the above pictures.

Co. C 4th/9th 67/68

The Filhol Rubber Plantation. The flash is a 500 or 1000 lb. bomb.

This is a full side view of the Black Virgin Mountain Dec. 67

Breaking camp and moveing out in the HoBo area in Oct. 67.

You can see the Black Virgin base to the right of the photo Dec. 67.

The 60mm mortar gunner is re conning by fire in the HoBo Oct. 67

This is one of three jeeps hit with a B40 rocket near Trang Bang during an ambush in the Summer of 67.

I took this from the window of a Chinook while leaving the Cu Chi base camp for the HoBo woods.

Swimming in a bomb crater

This was the convoy of Manchus heading from Cu Chi to Tay Ninh during the permanent move in Nov 1967.

You can see Cu Chi below and the HoBo woods in the distance.

This is a familiar sight of a Chinook dropping supplies into the night camp with the purple smoke on the drop zone Oct 1967.

Taken on a Chinook or a Caribou, I can't remember. We were heading to the HoBo Woods. No one was happy about going back to the HoBo.

Thanks to Ed Episcopo for the above pictures.

"Grunt's Dream"
By: SSG George "Sonny" Hoffman

The Parrots Beak
By: Wayne R. "Crash" Coe Blackhawk 54

Co. B 4th/9th 67/68

B Co resupply by truck near Tan Son Nhut (pretty sky). I'm guessing this was around August 1968. The big guy in the middle of the road was 1SG Klaer - Top to Bravo at the time. He was the favorite character of many at the time. He made sure the company in the field had what it needed - no matter who had to steal it.

Point man wading into dense jungle after move to Tay Ninh. My buddy Dennis Wagner took this of me around November or December 1967.

B/4/9 mortar platoon firing a 81mm at Katum. I would guess this was late January or early February 1968. The guy in the T-shirt right by the tube I'm pretty sure is Ron Briley. I have not identified the others yet.

Sign announcing Katum as the 1st BDE HQ around Jan 68. Katum was the large forward base for the 1st BDE during Operation Yellowstone which began 12/8/67.

Close up of a parked Huey from the 25th Aviation. I'm pretty sure this was at the Tay Ninh base camp air strip.

Manchu belt buckle close up.

Chapel at Tay Ninh base camp

4/9th HQ at Tay Ninh. SGT Douglas McCarty, 2nd platoon Co B. Awarded silver star December 28, 1967 along with CPT Baker. Killed in action April 11, 1968. A great friend to everyone who knew him.

B/4/9 orderly room at Tay Ninh. Probably April or May 1968.

SGT Binh, Vietnamese interpreter for the Manchus, taken at Tay Ninh around 1-68. Binh spent a good bit of time with Bravo and was involved in the heavy fighting at what came to be known as "The Hourglass" LZ, 1-5-68. The Blackhawks lost a Huey and a door gunner early in the day, and LT Colon, his 1st platoon, and Binh held out in fierce fighting when they came under attack before the last lift out.

Thanks to Larry (Mitch) Mitchell for the above pictures.