4th Battalion 42nd Artillery

 

 

 

William Koontz Battery C 4/42 Artillery 1967-1968

 

 

Flying out to firebase

 

 

Inside a "Slick"

 

 

Arriving by chopper to my first assigned outpost close to Cambodia border March 1967
Regulars had cleared the location

 

 

Firebase

 

 

Chinook delivering 105 shells, Regulars placed sandbags sign in back on hill, later they added "By God"

 

 

My gun chief, name unknown

 

 

Regulars coming back to camp from a sweep

 

 

Some Regulars landing at LZ

 

 

Huey comes in to landing zone

 

 

 

Chinook bringing water cart

 

 

AN/MPQ-4A Radar on hill behind our howitzer battery -
Counter mortar/artillery radar

 

 

View of camp from LZ

 

 

Regulars sign and on hill behind sign was a listening post

 

 

Mortar pit

 

 

Captured weapons and equipment

 

 

Captured weapons - at least eight of them are French FM 24/29 light machine guns

 

 

Camp was heavily mortared one day and 105 shell bunker caught fire from round hit,
we tore sandbags away and put out fire

 

 

One of our gun crews took a direct hit also, you can see hole it made,
many injured and I think some Regulars were killed

 

Carrying a wounded G.I. on a stretcher

 

 

Jeep took a direct hit

 

 

 

 

Mortar hit Regulars sign between the letter L and A

 

 

 

 


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