---1st Battalion 22nd Infantry ----
Area of Operations, Republic of Vietnam 1966-1972
The following photos are from
veterans of units other than the 1/22 Infantry.
Most are from units which supported 1/22 Infantry, or otherwise
worked alongside of 1/22.
The photos are presented here, as excellent examples of the Area
of Operations (AO)
in which 1/22 Infantry was involved.
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Road to LZ Hardtimes
Photo from Jerry Schultz via Jim Claeys
LZ Hardtimes
Photo from Jerry Schultz via Jim Claeys
LZ Hardtimes --- M-109 self-propelled 155mm's firing
Photo from Jerry Schultz via Jim Claeys
Leaving LZ Hardtimes
Photo from Jerry Schultz via Jim Claeys
LZ Schueller
Photo from Jim Claeys
LZ Buckeye
Photo from Jerry Schultz via Jim Claeys
155mm Howitzers at LZ Buckeye
Photo from Jerry Schultz via Jim Claeys
8 inch Self-propelled gun at the Oasis
Photo from Eddie Donato via Russell "Gus" Reynolds via Jim Claeys
8 inch gun firing at the Oasis
Photo from Eddie Donato via Russell "Gus" Reynolds via Jim Claeys
Duc Lap September 1968
Jerry Fahrenbruch 5/22 Artillery
(175mm/8 inch Battalion -- Base Camp was An Khe)
Photo from Steve Sipos. Steve writes:
The buddy in the picture is Jerry
Fahrenbruch. As I stated he died in November of 2000.
I would call him every year on special Army days such as the day
we ended up together at Ft Irwin on 4 June 1967 at 11:00 PM in
the middle of the desert.
He was from Bertrand, Nebraska at the time. He
referred to himself as a sod buster (his father was a
farmer).
The Duc Lap assignment was something
else. We were flown in from PhanThiet which was a pretty
decent area along the coast at the bottom of II Corps on the
South China Sea. I had been farmed out to the 23rd ARVN
Infantry Regiment out of Song Mao doing artillery liason work.
Fahrenbruch and I took a jeep and trailer with our gear and some
radios to Duc Lap to help set up a foward CP to coordinate
artillery firing for you guys.
We no sooner hit the landing strip and mortars
started coming in. I remember the Caribou crew was not too
pleased and barely stopped the plane for us to off
load. Our first order of business was to dig
in. My timing may be off a little but it seems some
friendly 105 rounds came in shortly after we had about 2 rows of
sand bags filled. At the time no one realized it was of US
origin. There was a stream to the west of our area we used
to bathe in. I recall an infantry guy running up from the
stream naked with blood running down his backside. It was
and wasn't funny.
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