Michael Belis Company C 1/22 Infantry 1970-1971
The following photos were taken on various convoys we ran from An Khe to Tuy Hoa and back
On right Captain Joe
Cinquino, CO of Company C
On his right is Dotson, Platoon SGT of 3rd Platoon
getting ready to move out on the first convoy to Tuy Hoa
3rd Platoon assembling on truck
"Satan's Chariot" gun truck escort for convoy - C Company mascot "Fred" on right
On left is Charles Lewis with his pipe
Sylvester Bobo with his M-60 machine gun from 3rd Platoon
left, Ron "Doc" Sorrento - right, Michael Belis
Lieutenant David Randolph, Platoon Leader for 3rd Platoon
Utah climbs into truck
Wayne "Andy" Anderson ready to go
A Cobra gunship flies over my head as we mount up on the trucks
Standing is Mike Hernandez, on left is Lewis, unknown in front
Left is Doc Sorrento, right unknown
Goose was in the first
truck and I called out to him to hold the Company guidon
so I could take a picture of it
Heading into the hairpin curve at the top of the An Khe pass - Highway QL-19
Scene of many ambushes
& attacks. Long stretch of winding road that descends from
the Mountain Plateau
to the Coastal Plain. On this trip we took a few RPG rounds fired
at the end of the convoy.
An Khe pass - helmets and flak jackets
Inside the pass
Firebase in the An Khe
pass
I think this might have been LZ Lima
An Khe pass - "King
Kong" gun truck with an APC mounted on its bed
.50 cal machine guns on either side of the APC
Convoy moves past a Vietnamese bus in the pass
Lonely guard at a bridge inside the pass
Still in the pass
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