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327 Infantry Veterans

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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