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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