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Vietnam Veteran's photo gallery – it's made-up entirely from submissions
by members and visitors. If you have a picture you would like to submit, send
it with caption information to
Larry Bissonnette. [ Click on a
thumbnail image for close-up view. Navigate through the pages using text links
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Photos in this section submitted by: Joe
Oross
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| Tent City when I arrived in June '66 NA BE
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Officer and enlisted head on right, the VC Base
workers? on left. |
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| Tent where I lived for a couple months before the
barge arrived, with my cheif ans 1st class. |
My friend tom and I by tents |
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| PBR docks in front of barge where MSBs were tied
up |
Close up of PBR docks |
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| Seal team 1 boat (known by Charlie as the green fire
monster), as you can see in this shot CB's starting to build |
MSB on long tau sweeping |
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| Me |
Sampans on the soyrap |
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| Salvage ship getting ready to raise MSB 54 in sept 66
after it hit a mine blew it in two |
54 being raised, I was on salvage crew to raise and
strip |
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| 54 almost up |
54 almost ready to make trip to Saigon for
stripping |
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| Me sitting on my new assignment RPC1 in Nov
66 |
Picture of RPC1 and RPC2 tied along barge |
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| My 50 mount after ambush 20 Jan 67 on the bach ra
dang with the 199th LT Jones and I both wounded. Operation called by the army
as VC quarterback depot. |
Some viet money I saved. |
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| Joe Oross center, Tom Reesor right and another a
school buddy John Bomar who was with James Elliot Williams Sec 531 he on the 99
boat and Williams on 105, we are at the mobile riverine reunion at the draw
bridge in fort Mitchell KY in 2004 |
NHA BE - June 1966. Tom Reesor at the pbr dock, at
that time rver sec 533. |
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| Tom Reesor left, Joe Oross right - at nha be on
barge. |
Tom Reesor left, Joe Oross right - at Reesor's home
in KY 40 years later in 2005, still the best of buddies since Jan 66 A school
great lakes. |
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Photos in this section submitted by: Neil D.
Ostrander
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Pictures of Ben Keo, South Vietnam - submitted by:
Harold Payne.
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Pictures submitted by: John
Phillips
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| Army boats on the Upper
Saigon(Army guys thought that they had real fighting crafts) |
Swift Boats at the Benawah (They
were behind us when we went into Cambodia) |
Cambodia Inc (More pictures at the
Benawah) |
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| Phu Cuong Shower & Ammo Bunker
(It me a while to get use to the Vietamese women sharing the shower with me,
they would just come while I was taking a shower.) |
River ( We used this river to get
to the Mekong when we left the Upper Saigon) |
Swain (Hunter threw Swain in the
River for being a short timer, Sullivan is taking Pics) |
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| Upper Saigon (What a desolate
place to get supplies) |
Yum (Now I know why all the kids
liked me, candy. Yum probably survived the take over) |
Anapolis (Looking out of Anapolis
Hotel in Saigon, what a first impression of Vietnam) |
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| Andrade & Phillips ( working
on the twin gray marine diesels) |
Benawah (That what it looked like
before we into Cambodia) |
Cambodia Moui ( I know that they
had to kill him, he was too brave) |
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| Maynard ( Sam Fielders, Kris
Maynard,Wagner, Remmer, Kris Maynard was the engineman on Wagner's Boat that
went into Cambodia with us but left early. Since we were the last boat back, I
sure that we were unauthorized by the President's order. We went much farther
that 17 miles into Cambodia) |
Moui would not take any bullshit
from the villagers. He was a Patroit. |
Pete's Apple (Terry Peters threw
this apple and hit Remmer in the head in the coxswain's flat, we were all
deadly shots) |
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| Phillips Remmer (Remmer is in the
Coxswain's Flat) |
Rung Sat (Do you remember this old
sunken french ship in the rung sat) |
Saigon Harbor |
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| Thomas Winkless |
Wagner & Yum |
Yum |
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In order by contributor:
Ammerman,
Clarke | Arrans, Guy | Bandy, Jim | Basallion, Don | Beery, Jere | Bihl, Carl "Ed" | Bissonnette, Larry | Blankenship, Don | Bopp, Bob | Bridgman, Ron |
Bryan, Bennie | Brooks, Charles | Busic, Gerald | Cagle, Paul | Cates, Doug | Christopher, Ralph | Clouse, David | Davidson, Michael | Darland, Larry | Davy, Jim | Daugherty, Richard Roy | DeSerio, Joe | Dickson, Jim | Doggett, Rich | Duda, Frank | Dunwoody, Ken | Eagan, Matt | Foster, Jack | Forbes, Wayne |
Fries, Ralph J. | Geiger, Gene | Geraghty, William |
Glasco, Gene | Goff, Charles | Guinn, Paul | Halford, Darrell | Hamlin, Jerry | Hickethier,
Heinz | Holmes, Gary | Hott, Jimmy | Howe, John | Jarvinen, Butch | Johnson, Lawrence | Kalish, Ken | Kelly, Floyd | Kiefer, Mike | Klinedinst,
Chris | Krebs,
Rich | Kurant,
Dan | Kurchev,
Keith | Lambert, Jimmie | Languell, Fred | Lemmon, Mark | Lepak, Ronald | Longaker, Ray | Madden, Pat | Malovic, John | Marker, Gary | McConkey, Russell | McWhorter, Doug | Morgan, Rod | Moss, Gary | Nelson, Bobbey | Nevarez, Gus | Nelson, Bob | Oross, Joe | Ostrander, Neil D. | Payne, Harold |
Phillips, John | Phillips, M.R. [Buddy] | Podoba, Moe | Potter, David | Richeson, Larry Eugene | Riojas, Doc | Roemhildt, Gene | Rothfuss, John | Sandoval, Sandy | Scott, Ken | Sears, Al | Sentz, John | Shewbrooks, Bruce | Snook, Sid | Tritle, Matthew | Vitale, Joe | Wahler, Lee | Ward, George | Wasson, Tom | Weatherall, Larry | White, Alan | White, David | Wilson, Mike | Woods, Jim | Yocum, Phil | Yusi, Frank | Zimmer, Matt | Miscellaneous
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