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50 years ago Vietnam- Picture #2
Nov 1, 2020, 7:42 PM
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Was that almost a smile? If it was, it probably was the last one for a long while- this was taken a few minutes before I rode that tank over the booby trapped bomb that blew up the APC following us , making a crater deep enough to let the vehicle go all the way down into it.
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Clover is that a Sheridan w/the 150mm
Nov 1, 2020, 7:47 PM
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If so that thing had a beehive round that was unreal
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You are asking the wrong person
Nov 1, 2020, 7:52 PM
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I know nothing about the tanks they had in Nam except that they were magnets for enemy fire. Just let one wander off the main roads like these did and watch out.
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Imagine 155 rounds being used as IEDs
Nov 1, 2020, 7:58 PM
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The damage they do to our service members riding in vehicles - regardless of armor or up-armoring - in SWA is devastating.
God Bless those brave and amazing young American warriors.
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The explosive we rode over had to be
Nov 1, 2020, 8:02 PM
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a dud 500 pound bomb from one of our jets. Or at least it was equivalent to one because the crater matched ones I saw after airstrikes. When they fill up with rain they make good swimming holes for the kids (I have a photo of kids in one).
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Re: 50 years ago Vietnam- Picture #2
Nov 1, 2020, 8:02 PM
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Re: 50 years ago Vietnam- Picture #2
Nov 1, 2020, 8:06 PM
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Wow... Just wow. That guy is Fabio’s worst nightmare!
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Re: 50 years ago Vietnam- Picture #2
Nov 1, 2020, 8:08 PM
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Dang man - you should have seen these photos before they faded over the 50 years. Sadly, I have faded a bit too.
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Re: 50 years ago Vietnam- Picture #2
Nov 1, 2020, 8:21 PM
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Your post from people like you, Joe21 and others who have served our country are great. I have started a scrap book because I feel it is very important that the younger people know why they are free today and enjoy the life they are fortunate to have in the United States as well as for other other countries we recused so they could live free as we do.
Vietnam was a very important war as was the Korean War. If LBJ and Truman would have stayed out of the prosecution of the war and had allowed the United States kick butt IMO If we had been allowed to win both wars the world would be a much better place to live in. China and Russia may not be the pain in the butts they are today.
Thank you all for your sacrifice and service to our country. Please keep sharing your stories and photos.
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Re: 50 years ago Vietnam- Picture #2
Nov 1, 2020, 8:30 PM
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Thank you for sharing and for your service. I’m in awe of all you who sacrificed so much so we can be free. And a stark reminder that we get to squabble about stupid games because of y’all. God Bless.
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Re: 50 years ago Vietnam- Picture #2
Nov 1, 2020, 9:58 PM
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THIS ***
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Re: 50 years ago Vietnam- Picture #2
Nov 1, 2020, 11:20 PM
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...... and if you had gotten stuck or broken down one of these would come and tow you out. I called this one in after my driver got his six-by stuck and promptly got several other pieces of equipment stuck trying to pull him out. We actually got this tank retriever stuck and it took us 8 hours to dig him out. He came back the next morning and stayed on solid ground and we used the cable to pull the equipment out rather than trying to get close and use his tow bar.
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Do you recall going to OP1 to remove the APC
Nov 2, 2020, 7:09 AM
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from the crater I described above? We left after they got the driver's remains out the next day and figured the APC would stay there until the end of time since it was blown up and burned, but the Hill 4-11 history says it was removed "from the road" even though this could hardly be called 'a road" since it was just a passage between rice paddies and the mountain. DK why they would want to move it
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Re: Do you recall going to OP1 to remove the APC
Nov 3, 2020, 12:54 AM
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Clover, I was a combat engineer and we did not have the tank retrievers. This incident was the only time I ever had to call one to get us unstuck. My battalion had a lot of heavy equipment, including excavators, so we could usually get anything out of being stuck, except maybe a tank, but we were far away from the battalion at the time and even the dozer shown in the photo was not ours. I think the only reason you might go get a APC or blown up tank is to keep the VC or NVA from using anything on it to use against us. Whenever we abandoned one of our mountain top outposts my platoon always blew up anything that the enemy could use, including barbed wire, ammo boxes, etc.
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