What did I feel when I found this web site? The best way to get hooked up is to sign the guest book, by filling in the blanks, if you were 327th Vietnam era Veteran, we will be able to add you to our 327th roster and it will also generate a automatic welcome to […]
Kontum Jump
Kontum Jump Who was it this week talking about the jump in Kontum in 1966? I didn’t think there was anyone out there that remembers those jump. Russ Palm A/2/327 66-67 I had my 19th birthday on the same site of the ambush that killed SGT Kelly and J Elder Hill 1963 if I […]
Old Soldiers Reunite
Old Soldiers Reunite John Wolfe here {B2nd327} vietnam68-69. I had the honor of serving under both Charlie Beckwith and Charlie Dyke. I was hit pretty bad in an NVA ambush in the mountains somewhere west of Hue, was choppered out to the 22nd med. evac where I had a series of cardiac arrests, {from […]
Our Memories
Our Memories When I came in country in May of 1967 I went through p-training in Phan Rang. Sgt. Welker went through p-training at the same time, along with Cipriani, Dominguez and others. We ended up going to A Company, 1st of the 327th together. Cipriani was killed in action within a few weeks […]
Chinook Crash
Chinook Crash 11/28/71 At 1115 hours, 28 Nov 1971, C Co, 159th Avn Bn, 101st Abn Div (ABL) received a mission from the Battalion Operations Center (BOC) to provide two aircraft for an administrative troop move from LZ 401 at Da Nang to Corregidor Pad at Camp Eagle. The company operations officer, assigned CW2 […]
FSB Birmingham
FSB Birmingham To read or print a link in PDF format you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer. The program is free and you can download and install it on your computer by going to After you have installed Acrobat Reader you can click on the images for easier reading. The documents are […]
C-Rations, Resupply, M-16s, AR-15s and more
C-Rations, Resupply, M-16s, AR-15s and more This thread contains more memories on C-Rations and of other topics brought on by these memories, such as Resupply, M-16s, AR-15s, well. . . you get the picture. ALSO – email’s may be out of order as they were received due to poor record keeping on my part, […]
C-Rations
C-Rations It hurts my heart that so many are spending so much time digging up and reliving the ugly side of our experiences instead of the good sides. War sucks. Thank God we had turkey loaf and B-1 units with peaches or pears! Bad stuff happens, ladies. In the Napoleonic wars and in the US […]
Eye Witness Accounts
Bruce, I can confirm that PFCs James E. Farrar and Earl W. Goodall were both assigned to ABU, 1/327th when they were KIA as was Lt. Kenneth G. Collins when he was wounded in his left eye. These three were officially cited in Bde orders for their heroic actions and those orders were issued on […]
Sniper Rifles
SNIPER RIFLES Below is a picture of the ABU RTO with the non-military issue sniper rifle. We had a few responses that said they didn’t get a look at it. Anyway it’s an interesting topic. I know that Hannibal humped an M-14 with a totally inadequate scope as a sniper in ’69. When I […]
