Bombadier Larry Davenport manning a machine-gun after one of the attacks on FSB (Fire Support Bases) Coral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU2R5EwNASM
Subjects
artillery, machine guns, soldiers, Fire Support Bases (FSB)
Local Identifiers
16-4436
Title
Member of the 1st Division Examining Bullet and Shrapnel Damage to Truck Windscreen
Personal Creator
Unknown
Description
A member of the 1st Division Supply and Transport Workshop examines bullet and shrapnel damage to a truck windscreen in the aftermath of a North Vietnamese attack on FSB (Fire Support Base) Coral.
Subjects
1st Cavalry Division, shrapnel, Fire Support Bases (FSB)
Local Identifiers
16-4425
Title
Soldier at Fire Support Base Green
Personal Creator
Armando Pastran
Description
Soldier Bernie Weisz in front of field artillery at Fire Support Base Green, 1st Platoon, 1970. Photo by Armando Pastran, 1st Platoon 1970. Company B, 1/7 Cavalry.
Subjects
field artillery, ammunition for artillery, soldiers, Fire Support Bases (FSB)
Local Identifiers
16-4043
Title
Field Artillery At FSB
Personal Creator
Jim Neeley
Description
Fire support base (FSB) and field artillery. Battle of Soui Tre, 1966-67, 2/22, 4th and 25th Div. Photo by Jim Neeley.
Subjects
armored personnel carriers, soldiers, Fire Support Bases (FSB), Battle of Soui Tre
Local Identifiers
16-2294
Title
FSB Athena, M107 175mm Self-propelled Gun
Personal Creator
Dennis Proulx
Description
Fire Support Base (FSB) Athena, M107 175 mm self-propelled gun. Photo by Dennis Proulx, 6th Battalion, 14th Artillery Regiment, ARVN, 1970.
Subjects
Fire Support Bases (FSB), artillery, field artillery, ammunition, soldiers
Local Identifiers
16-2685
Title
M42 Duster At FSB Athena
Personal Creator
Dennis Proulx
Description
M42 Duster parked out at Fire Support Base (FSB) Athena. Photo by Dennis Proulx, 6th Battalion, 14th Artillery Regiment, RVN, 1970.
Subjects
tanks, Fire Support Bases (FSB), artillery, military vehicles
Local Identifiers
16-2695
Title
FSB Fuller Digging Bunkers
Personal Creator
Robert Scheurer
Description
Digging bunkers on Dong Ha Mountain - FSB (Fire Support Base) Fuller. Photo by SP4 (specialist) Robert Scheurer, 11B (1968 - 1969) 1st Platoon "The Pioneers" 1st Battalion, 11th Inf. Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th Inf. Div. (mech). Quang Tri Province, RVN.
Subjects
bunkers, tools, soldiers, Fire Support Bases (FSB), military bases
Local Identifiers
16-2515
Title
Howard Swede Ware At FSB Chamberlin
Personal Creator
Howard Swede Ware
Description
Jan. 1970 at Fire Support Base (FSB) Chamberlin Southwest of Cu Chi: Howard Swede Ware and his M-79. "I carried a pack that had 15 extra, if that wasn't enough I had my pistol, if I burned that up I had 2 hand frags, if I burned those up, well, we picked a fight with the wrong folks....Small Bowie Knife. Smoke and frags were on the suspended web belt and harness along with 1 of 2 handguns. Carried CS rounds in my ruck for the 79." -Howard Swede Ware. Photo by Howard Swede Ware.
Subjects
Fire Support Bases (FSB), machine guns, artillery, military bases, soldiers
Local Identifiers
16-3672
Title
Captured "Sappers" At FSB Six Shooter
Personal Creator
Corporal John Macias
Description
Captured "sappers" from May 19, 1969 attack on FSB (fire support base) Six Shooter. Photo taken by Corporal John Macias, H 3/11.
Subjects
sappers, prisoners of war (POW), Fire Support Bases (FSB), military bases
Local Identifiers
16-2963
Title
Waak At Fire Support Base Tomhawk
Personal Creator
Santos G. Castillo
Description
Donnie Waak at Fire Support Base (FSB) Tomhawk. Photo by Santos G. Castillo.
Subjects
soldiers, Fire Support Bases (FSB), artillery, military bases
Local Identifiers
16-3017
Title
Fire Support Base Six Shooter
Personal Creator
Jack Wells
Description
This photo was taken summer of 1969 at Fire Support Base (FSB) Six Shooter west of Da Nang, reading data for the guns for an artillery "fire mission." Photo by Jack Wells.
Subjects
artillery, soldiers, military bases, Fire Support Bases (FSB)
Local Identifiers
16-2962
Title
Kingsman Huey Destroyed by Detonated Mine
Personal Creator
Tom Everhart
Description
Kingsman Huey destroyed by detonated mine. "It exploded under the pilots seat, blowing him and seat through back of aircraft. I medevaced him to hospital in Phu Bai. He survived his wounds thanks to armored seat. One GI on firebase was killed when aircraft flipped on him. Mike Grisey says: I remember that mission... If it wasn't for the Door Gunner's eagle eye spotting the wires leading to mine on top of that abandoned fire base, we would have landed on top of it, and that could have been '798 blown apart... By the time we notified the ships behind us, it was too late." Photo by and comments by Tom Everhart
Subjects
Killed In Action (KIA), cockpits, land mines, mines, explosions, explosives, Vietnam War, helicopters, helicopter crews, Huey helicopters, Iroquois Helicopters, pilots, Wounded in action (WIA), medevacs, hospitals, Fire Support Bases (FSB), gunners
Local Identifiers
16-3692
Title
Fires Support Base Field Artillery
Personal Creator
Neil Doc Keddie
Description
Fires Support Base Field Artillery. "When I was in the field, I loved the damage the 155's wrought and when I returned to the Aid Station on Firebase Arsenal for my last 3 months I loved watching them work out." -Vietnam Veteran. Photo by Neil Doc Keddie.
Subjects
soldiers, military bases, Fire Support Bases (FSB), field artillery
Local Identifiers
16-3235
Title
Fire Base Rakkasan Bunker
Personal Creator
Billy Montgomery
Description
Fire Base Rakkasan- 1970 Bunker. Photo by Billy Montgomery.
Subjects
Fire Support Bases (FSB), military bases, bunkers, soldiers
Local Identifiers
16-3239
Title
Field Artillery At A FSB
Personal Creator
Jim Neeley
Description
Field artillery at a Fire Support Base (FSB). Battle of Soui Tre, 1966-67, 2/22, 4th and 25th Div. Photo by Jim Neeley.
Subjects
soldiers, field artillery, ammunition, Fire Support Bases (FSB)
Local Identifiers
16-2366
Title
Inside The Recon Tent, FSB Birmingham
Personal Creator
Neil Doc Keddie
Description
Neil Doc Keddie in the Recon tent on Fire Support Bases (FSB) Birmingham, 1970. Photo by Neil Doc Keddie.
Subjects
soldiers, Fire Support Bases (FSB), alcohol, military bases
Local Identifiers
16-2471
Title
Mad Minute Drill on LZ Ike, Army Base
Personal Creator
James Tree Machin
Description
Mad minute on LZ Ike, 1968. In the Vietnam War, the "mad minute" was used to describe a drill involving intense automatic weapons fire, intended to flush out infiltrators or ambushes. The area targeted would be something which provided potential concealment for an enemy but not very good protection from projectiles, such as the vegetation line at the edge of a field, or at the edge of a cleared free fire zone around a fire base. All soldiers involved would direct the heaviest rate of continuous fire they could into that area for one minute. Photo by James Tree Machin.
Subjects
rifles, rifle ranges, riflemen, soldiers, Vietnam, Vietnam War, drill ammunition, machine guns, Fire Support Bases (FSB), military camps, military personnel, fortifications, sandbags, air bases, Landing Zone (LZ), Military training
Local Identifiers
16-3298
Title
High Above Phuoc Tuy Province A 105mm Howitzer
Personal Creator
Unknown
Description
High above Phuoc Tuy Province a 105mm Howitzer of the Australian 12th Field Regiment hangs under the cargo inspection hatch of a United States Chinook helicopter on its way from a Fire Support Base back to Nui Dat.
Subjects
howitzers, helicopters, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), artillery, Fire Support Bases (FSB)
Local Identifiers
16-4649
Title
Vietnamese Workers At A Fire Base
Personal Creator
Jay Kline
Description
Vietnamese workers arrive at our Firebase in a deuce. Photo by Jay Kline, a Cobra pilot a Scout Door Gunner & Crew Chief.with the Scout Platoon, D Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. Courtesy of Mike Gustin.
Subjects
civilians, Fire Support Bases (FSB), workers, soldiers, military bases
Local Identifiers
16-4299
Title
Fire Support Base "Fuller"
Personal Creator
Don Blanchette
Description
Don Blanchette at Fire Support Base, Fuller - Jan 1970. In 1st Platoon "The Pioneers," 1st Battalions, 11th Inf. Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th Inf. Div. (mech). Quang Tri Province, RVN. Photo repaired by Dan Fox
Subjects
brigades, Fire Support Bases (FSB), military bases, platoons, infantries, infantrymen, Vietnam War, soldiers, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
