Posts Tagged ‘Tet Offensive’
1st Battalion, 1st infantry Division, 271st Vietcong Regiment, 5th Artillery, Big Red 1, Colonel Alexander Haig, Delta Battery, Ong Thanh, Quan Loi, Tet Offensive, The Black Lions
In Bronze Star, U. S. Army, Vietnam on January 27, 2012 at 4:38 am
Col. Ray Starsman of Punta Gorda Isles is pictured in Vietnam in 1967 when he was a captain in command of Delta Battery, 1st Battalion, 5th Artillery, 1st Infantry Division. He was in charge of six, 105 millimeter Howitzers and the men who serviced the big guns. Photo provided
“I was a 27-year-old captain who commanded Delta Battery, 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, 1st Division. That battery was the longest serving unit in the history of ‘The Big Red One.’ It went back to the Revolutionary War when its original commander was Alexander Hamilton,” the 72-year-old retired Punta Gorda, Fla. bird colonel said. “That was kinda cool.” Read the rest of this entry »
1st Armored Division, Kuwait, Operation Desert Shield, Tet Offensive
In U. S. Army, Vietnam on November 2, 2011 at 4:38 am
Ed Vuolo is pictured in 1991 as a desert warrior somewhere in Kuwait during "Operation Desert Shield." Coalition forces took on Saddam Hussein after he marched his troops into Kuwait. Photo provided
1st Sgt. Ed Vuolo of Port Charlotte, Fla. drove into Kuwait on Jan. 17, 1991 aboard a Humvee behind the M1A1 Abram Tanks of “Old Iron Sides,” the United States’ 1st Armored Division as part of “Operation Desert Shield.” Read the rest of this entry »
1st Armored Division, Ann-Margaret, Bob Hope, Desert Shield, IBM, Kuwait, Long Binh, Tet Offensive
In Bronze Star, U. S. Army, Vietnam on October 31, 2011 at 4:38 am
Ed Vuolo of Port Charlotte, Fla. is pictured as a 19-year-old soldier in Vietnam in 1968. He's ready for war with his rifle, body armor and steel helmet standing outside a bunker at Long Binh, headquarters for all Army activities in Southeast Asia. Photo provided
Ed Vuolo grew up on Long Island, NY, graduated from high school in 1966 and two years later he was drafted into the U.S. Army. Read the rest of this entry »
314th Airlift Wing, Da Nang, Dyess Air Force Base, Edwards Air Force Base, Khe Sanh, Little Rock Air Force Base, McGuire Air Force Base, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Just Cause, Tet Offensive
In U.S. Air Force, Vietnam War on July 18, 2011 at 4:38 am
Brig. Gen. Fred Buckingham of Punta Gorda, Fla. is pictured at his desk at Little Rock Air Force base in Little Rock, Ark. He was the commander of the 314th Airlift Wing at the base when the picture was taken in 1994 shortly before retiring. Photo provided
Lt. Fred Buckingham flew his C-130 “Hercules,” four-engine transport plane to Vietnam just in time for the North Vietnamese Army’s siege of the Marine base at Khe Sanh, the biggest single battle of the war, and the enemy’s massive Tet Offensive, where every major city and many American military bases were attacked in a countrywide coordinated assault. Read the rest of this entry »
1st Cavalry Division, An Ke, Fort Ord, Fort Polk, NVA, Quan Tri, Tet Offensive
In 1st Cavalry, U. S. Army, Vietnam War on January 17, 2011 at 4:38 am
Jim King of Punta Gorda, Fla. served as a sergeant in the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam in 1967-68. Photo provided
Jim King and his buddy, Charley Carr, joined the Army right out of high school. The two 18-year-old California boys got an education about life long before they reached Vietnam and faced the enemy.
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1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Bouncing Betty, Da Nang, Delta Company, Gates of Hell, Hill 55, NVA, Red Beach, Tet Offensive, US Marines, Vietnam
In Marines, Vietnam War on December 8, 2010 at 4:38 am
Cpl Joe Taylor, center, and two of his buddies in Vietnam with a bomb-sniffing police dog. Taylor served with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division in the 1960s. Photo provided.
Joe Taylor was a black Marine who served three tours of duty in Vietnam. The death and devastation this grunt witnessed while serving in the Corps over there was almost too much for him to bear.
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1st Marine Division, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Da Nang, Echo Company, Nixon, Operation Hue City, Operation Osceola, Tet Offensive
In Bronze Star, Marines, Purple Heart, Vietnam War on October 22, 2010 at 4:38 am
Cpl. Charles Shaughnessy is pictured with his hunter-killer squad in 1968 at their marine base in Vietnam. He’s the leatherneck at the top left in the picture. Photo provided
“Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division was a black flag outfit. We were a skull and crossbones unit comprised of assault hunter-killer teams. We took no prisoners,” Charles Shaughnessy, who saw considerable action in 1968 in Vietnam as a 20-year-old Marine corporal and squad leader, said.
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Bethesda Hospital School of Nursing, Elmendorf, Ramstein Germany, Tet Offensive, Travis Air Force Base, Warren Air Force Base
In U.S. Air Force, Vietnam War on October 15, 2010 at 4:38 am
Joann Bolitho of Port Charlotte, Fla. was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant and nurse in the U.S. Air Force in 1958, when this picture was taken, she was about 25 years old. Photo provided
Lt. Col. Joann Bolitho was a flight nurse who served in Vietnam and spent the rest of her 20-year military career in hospitals in Europe, Alaska and around the country.
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21st Tactical Air Support Squadron, Bird Dog pilots, Tet Offensive, Tuy Hoa
In U.S. Air Force, Vietnam War on October 4, 2010 at 5:38 am
Rene Camps is pictured with an Army version of a “0-1 Bird Dog” spotter plane he maintained as an aviation mechanic during the Vietnam War. Photo provided
Rene Camps was an aircraft mechanic who kept a Cessna 0-1 Bird Dog forward air control spotter plane in the air during the Vietnam War. He graduated from high school in Miami in 1964 and served two tours in ‘Nam as a member of the 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron from 1967 to ’69.
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