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 […]
Cattle Drive
CATTLE DRIVE Jack Martin asks if any of the brothers remember anything about a cattle drive, sometime in 1967. If any of you subscibe to The First Screaming Eagles in Viet Nam look at Vol5 #4 pg2&3 there are two pictures of said cattle drive. I was with 1st plt Cobra during drive. Luckily […]
Ammo box used as a “personal box”
AMMO BOX USED AS A “PERSONAL BOX” Judging from the seemingly endless stream of photos emerging on the net, I am not at all surprised that we nailed so few of the bad guys … we were too engrossed in taking snapshots of each other! Just kidding. There were really too few of the […]
Battle for ABU Hill
I don’t see any information regarding the battle for ABU hill on this web site. It occurred in June l966 and we lost several KIA’s and a host of wounded. We were en-route to assist Capt. Carpenter (retired Major General Carpenter now) when we got ambushed. We lost over half of the Company. I recall […]
