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Title: Boot Camp Photograph Of Mike Green
Personal Creator: Mike Green
Description: Boot camp photograph of Mike Green, 1966. Photo by Mike Green.
Subjects: military personnel, military photography, boot camps, military uniforms
Local Identifier: 16-2982

Title: Photograph of Sergeant Rex C. McBee
Personal Creator: Rex C. McBee
Description: Photo taken age 20 after two tours Vietnam, taken in D.C. while assigned at Marine Barracks 8th and I HQ. Other units India 3/3/3 - HQ Regiment 3/26 - G-1 1st MarDiv - S-1 3/5 and last unit was S-1 1/1/1. Sergeant Rex C. McBee Oct 67 to July 72. Photo by Rex C. McBee.
Subjects: photographs, military personnel, military photography, sergeant
Local Identifier: 16-2958

Title: Hovering 992 Helicopter
Personal Creator: John Harris
Description: hovering 992 helicopter. Photo by John Harris, who was a door gunner with the "Scouts" during the years 1969-1971, Scout Platoon, D Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. Courtesy of Mike Gustin. http://www.dtroop.com/
Subjects: troops, military photography, military vehicles, gunners, platoons, 1st Cavalry Division
Local Identifier: 16-3910

Title: E-Troop 17th Cavalry
Personal Creator: Jerry W. Colwell
Description: E-Troop 17th Cavalry, LZ Uplift.It was the base of operations for the 1st Bn 69th Armor. It was also home to an artillery battery and a battalion of the 1/503rd of the 173rd Airborne. There was a Duster battery from the 4th/60th Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) located here as well as artillery from the 7th/15th Artillery, and the 7th/13th Artillery., Jan/Feb of 1970. Photo by Jerry W. Colwell
Subjects: Armored Cavalry Regiment, armored personnel carriers, tanks, artillery, patrol, military vehicles, military photography
Local Identifier: 16-3946

Title: Members of the 716th MP Battalion Guard the Entrance to the U.S. Embassy
Personal Creator: Edgar Price
Description: Saigon Republic of Vietnam. Viet Cong Attack American Embassy. Members of the 716th MP [Military Police] Battalion guard the entrance to the embassy. 31 January 1968
Subjects: Viet Cong, attacks, embassies, battalions, Military Police (MP), military photography, Vietnam, Vietnam War, guards, entrances, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), North Vietnamese Army (NVA), American
Local Identifier: 16-2930

Title: Viet Cong KIA after Attacking the Perimeter of Tan Son Nhut Air Base
Personal Creator: Edgar Price
Description: Viet Cong dead after an attack on the perimeter of Tan Son Nhut Air Base. 1 Feb. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price.
Subjects: Viet Cong, deaths, North Vietnamese Army (NVA), military bases, military photography, military history, Killed In Action (KIA), war photography, U.S. Military, soldiers, Tet Offensive, battles, combat, combatants
Local Identifier: 16-2942

Title: Portrait of a Soldier as an MP
Personal Creator: Tom Everhart
Description: "Did a short gig as an MP before going to Officer Cadet School." Photo by Tom Everhart
Subjects: U.S. Military, soldiers, military uniforms, military photography, studio portraits, portraits
Local Identifier: 16-3682

Title: 42nd US Artillery Which was Temporarily Based at Nui Dat in Support of the Australian Task Force
Personal Creator: Unknown
Description: What??? Gunner (Gnr) Mervyn Bignall 107th Field battery of NSW (in the foreground) during a visit to C Battery, 5th/42nd US Artillery which was temporarily based at Nui Dat in support of the Australian Task Force, January 1971.
Subjects: gunners, field artillery, artillery, military photography, military camps
Local Identifier: 16-4738

Title: Photograph of Dave Miller
Personal Creator: Dave Miller
Description: Photograph of Dave Miller. Photo by Dave Miller. Semper Fidelis Lima 3/7.
Subjects: soldiers, photographs, military personnel, military photography
Local Identifier: 16-2511

Title: Rocky Schmit and Mike Pistorino Return to Camp Reasoner After Going on Patrol
Personal Creator: Rick Rabenold
Description: 1967 Rocky Schmit and Mike Pistorino return to Camp Reasoner after patrol. Photo by Rick Rabenold and repaired by Dan Fox
Subjects: patrol, returns, military history, military photography, soldiers, Vietnam, Vietnam War
Local Identifier: 16-2890

Title: Soldiers From 1st Cavalry Regiment Relaxing Together
Personal Creator: Samuel Dunnock
Description: Brothers. Photo by Samuel Dunnock with the "Blues" (Saber Blues) while serving with D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1968. courtesy of Mike Gustin. http://www.dtroop.com/
Subjects: D-troop, Saber Blues, soldiers, friends, human behavior, military history, military personnel, military photography
Local Identifier: 16-4330

Title: Squad, From 1st Cavalry Regiment, Ready to Go on a Mission
Personal Creator: Ernie Patrick
Description: Squad ready to go on a mission. Photo by Ernie Patrick who was with the "Blues". from March, to July, 1970. Ernie says he wasn't in country very long. Ship was shot down and he was sent to hospital in Da Nang, Cam Rahn Bay, Japan then to Fort Gordon, Ga. Finally sent to Fort Hood where he stayed until discharge. Earnie was with D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. Courtesy of Mike Gustin
Subjects: missions, military aircraft, military photography, military personnel, military history, helicopters, 1st Cavalry Division, D-troop, Wounded in action (WIA), hospitals, military hospitals, Saber Blues, military homecoming, group portraits, Iroquois Helicopters
Local Identifier: 16-3975

Title: Military Police Squad from the 173rd Airborne Brigade
Personal Creator: Jerry W. Colwell
Description: October or so, 1969, LZ (Landing Zone) North English, Main Gate, MP Squad, 173rd Airborne Brigade, Vietnam — with Jerry Doyle, ARVN Sgt Long, KIA July 70, Paul Hurst, Sergeant Bell, House Boy, John Herron and Terry Smith. Photo by Jerry W. Colwell
Subjects: Military Police (MP), Landing Zone (LZ), military bases, military vehicles, Vietnam, Vietnam War, military history, military personnel, military photography, brigades, Killed In Action (KIA), Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
Local Identifier: 16-2576

Title: Soldiers Arriving For Deployment in Da Nang, Vietnam
Personal Creator: Jack Mulliner
Description: Soldiers landing in Vietnam, March 8, 1965 — in Da Nang, Vietnam. Photo by Jack Mulliner
Subjects: military deployment, military aircraft, Vietnam, Vietnam War, military history, military photography, military personnel, military bases, Landing Zone (LZ)
Local Identifier: 16-2635

Title: Vietnam Veteran, William Carr Jr., Remembers a Fellow Soldier
Personal Creator: Larry Shirk & James Fisher, courtesy of William Carr Jr.
Description: Date: 10/24/2005 3:42:20 PM Eastern Daylight I regret to inform you of the recent death of former "Redcatcher," William Condon. "Billy," as we called him, was formerly a member of our unit, 3d Platoon, C Company, 2d Battalion, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (Old Guard), 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Separate), at Fort Benning and in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967. He was a member of Sergeant James Williston's squad. In case you did not know, he died this past summer of complications associated with a seizure, as I understand it, according to a woman who said she was his wife. Today at lunchtime, I called his home in Maine and a woman answered. I told her I was looking for William Condon; I had served with him in Vietnam. She said that her husband had died in either July or June of this year. (Sorry, I could not understand everything she said and I could not bring myself to question her too much about the details). Billy was a funny guy, as I remember him. Had a way of talking that amused me - anyway. A couple of things I will always remember about Billy. (1) He liked to sit down. I remember on one mission, we were searching .a village. Billy had a habit of sitting down a lot, or at least it seemed that way to me. So when I passed a Vietnamese "hooch" that apparently Billy had just finished searching and saw him sitting down on one of those mounds of hardened mud (you may recall the Vietnamese villagers slept on these in their houses,) I remarked (and I can recall it clear as day), "Billy, you are always sitting down," I said. "I'll bet if you ever get hit, you will get it sitting down." Just as I finished my sentence, I looked down and right beside Billy was a grenade. I don't know where it came from, it might even have been his, but I didn't wait to find out and neither did he. We assumed it had come from inside the mound, from a "spider hole," those mysterious holes in the ground that we use to throw grenades in to kill any Viet Cong that may have been hiding in them. Anyway, I yelled ".Look out Billy! grenade beside you!" and we both ran as fast away from that house and the grenade as we could get. We never knew if it exploded or not, but of course we were not going back to find out. (2). Another thing I remember about Billy was that he was always getting stuck in the knee high (sometimes waist-high) mud we always had to walk through in our combat missions in the rice paddies in the Delta of Vietnam. We would all be trudging through, pulling ourselves along and there would be Billy - dragging along slightly behind, with his buddy, Merrill Doyle. Usually, on average maybe once per mission, I recall, one of them would get stuck. Because of suction, or whatever, immobilizing their movements they could not walk. The unstuck member of the duo would have to help pull them out. Others of us in the squad would sometimes have to help, also. It's been almost 40 years since I saw him last and I don't recall more. I wish he could have attended one of our Redcatcher Association reunions. I called him about 7 or 8 years ago to get him to come, but he said he did not want to even talk about Vietnam at that point. Out of respect for his wishes, I never attempted to contact him again until today. Now I'm thinking maybe I should have called sooner. Sorry to have to bring this news to you this way, I know most of the guys who read this might have seen him more recently than I did, if you remember him at all. Many of us will never forget him. May he have eternal peace and may God forgive his sins. Regards and please pass this message along, Bill Carr Sergeant Major, Retired Formerly with 3d Platoon, 0/2/3/199 LIB Nov '67-Apr 1967. Photographs by SSG Larry Shirk and SP4 James Fisher courtesy of William Carr Jr.
Subjects: portraits, oral histories, histories, Vietnam, Vietnam War, war memorials, military history, military personnel, military photography, people in military occupations, U.S. Military, soldiers
Local Identifier: 16-2566

Title: Soldiers Outside a Thatch Hut
Personal Creator: John Ferguson
Description: Photo by John Ferguson
Subjects: Vietnam, Vietnam War, military photography, huts, villages
Local Identifier: 16-2555

Title: Entrance to 1st Cavalry Base Camp at An Khe
Personal Creator: Dennis Blessing
Description: Entrance to 1st Cavalry base camp at An Khe, March '67 Photo by Dennis Blessing, 2nd Platoon 1967. Company B, 1/7 Cavalry
Subjects: 1st Cavalry Division, army bases, Army, base, military bases, military camps, military photography, military vehicles
Local Identifier: 16-3937

Title: Aerial View of a Military Base Along the Coast
Personal Creator: Bill Foster
Description: Photo by Bill Foster who served with the "Blues" (Saber Blues) D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. Nov. 1970-Aug. 1971. Courtesy of Mike Gustin
Subjects: D-troop, 1st Cavalry Division, cavalry, military bases, military camps, military photography, military installations, aerial photographs, aerial views, aerial photography
Local Identifier: 16-3958

Title: Catherine Leroy (1945 – 2006) A French-born Photojournalist And War Photographer
Personal Creator: Unknown
Description: Catherine Leroy (1945 – 8 July 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications. Catherine was brought up in a convent in Paris. She was moved by images of war she had seen in Paris Match, and decided she wanted to travel to Vietnam to "give war a human face." At the age of 21 booked a one-way ticket to Laos in 1966, with just one Leica M2 and $100 in her pocket. On arrival in Saigon, Leroy met the photographer Horst Faas, bureau chief of the Associated Press. A year later she became the first accredited journalist to participate in a combat parachute jump, joining the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Operation Junction City. Two weeks after the battle for Hill 881, she was wounded with a Marine unit near the demilitarized zone. In 1968, during the Tet Offensive, Leroy was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. She managed to talk her way out and emerged as the first newsperson to take photos of North Vietnamese Army Regulars behind their own lines. The story made the cover of Life Magazine. Her most famous photo, "Corpsman In Anguish," (1967 at the Wayback Machine, archived December 3, 2007) was one of three taken in quick succession portraying U.S. Navy Corpsman Vernon Wike. In the pictures the sailor is crouched in tall grass during the battle for Hill 881 near Khe Sanh. He is cradling his comrade who has been shot while smoke from the battle rises into the air behind them. In the first frame Wike has two hands on his friends chest, trying to staunch the wound. In the second, he is trying to find a heartbeat. In the third frame, "Corpsman In Anguish", he has just realized the man is dead. After Vietnam, she covered conflicts in several countries, including Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Lebanon. After her experiences in Beirut she swore off war coverage. Leroy originally sold her work to United Press International and The Associated Press, and later worked for Sipa Press and Gamma. In 1972, Leroy shot and directed Operation Last Patrol, a film about Ron Kovic and the anti-war Vietnam veterans. Leroy co-authored the book God Cried, about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War. She lived in the Hotel Chelsea in the late 1980s. Later in life, she founded and ran a vintage clothing store, Piece Unique, with a website. She died in Santa Monica, California, following a battle with lung cancer. Leroy won numerous awards for her work, including in 1967 the George Polk Awards, Picture of the Year, The Sigma Delta Chi and The Art Director's Club of New York. She was the first woman to receive the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award – "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise" – for her coverage of the civil war in Lebanon, in 1976. In 1997, she was the recipient of an Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University of Missouri.
Subjects: photojournalism, paratroopers, journalists, war photography, military photography, military history
Local Identifier: 16-4437

Title: Plane at Khe Sanh beyond the leveled ammunition dump
Personal Creator: Unknown
Description: Resupply--An Air Force C-123 touches down at Khe Sanh beyond the leveled ammunition dump. January, 1968: Tet Offensive.
Subjects: supplies, suppliers, air forces, U.S. Military, U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), ammunition components, leveling, military aircraft, military photography, planes, aircraft, airstrips, transport aircraft
Local Identifier: 16-2888

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