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Subject: Re: 1969 CHRISTMAS Author: . [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 09:11:50 04/27/00 Thu In reply to: . 's message, "1969" on 09:05:53 04/27/00 Thu > [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: 1969 CHRISTMAS Author: Stanley E. Hamby [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 01:54:39 05/01/00 Mon Christmas '69' there were 5 guys killed by VC women on the road between FSB Patton and TrungLap, with one of our own Claymores. All they were doing is sweeping the road for mines. I pray for their families, but can't remember who they were?

[> [> Subject: Re: 1969 CHRISTMAS Author: Ben Jones [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:08:31 09/26/00 Tue > > the operation was to clear the road to the village of Trung Lap so the acting S-5 (me) could bring the chaplain and others to the village to give Christmas presents to the families of the Vietnamese military family members (soap, clothes, etc). By the way, this was during a declared cease fire. As the lead platton closed into the front gates, a claymore was set off killing several and wounding others. The claymore was not to my knowledge one of ours - but a Chicom claymore. I called for medevac and the responding helicopter was one being used by reporters. I could not believe it but the reporters were more interested in the fact the girls responsible were being questioned "roughly" by the Vietnamese soldiers who had caught them. They did not seem interested in the the fact U.S. soldiers were laying on the ground dead and wounded. I went bonkers. Their chopper was "borrowed" to dust off the wounded along with a regular dustoff that arrived a short time later. I am sorry, but I do not know the names of the soldiers, in that I had only been with the Battalion for several days prior to the incident. One week later I assumed command of Delta company, 2/14th Infantry, 25th Division.

[> [> Subject: Re: 1969 CHRISTMAS Author: John Weisenberger [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:02:27 11/27/00 Mon > >Bravo Co 1/28th Ist Infantry Division Christmas of 69 has very mixed emotions for me and a lot of other guys in our outfit. We were in the bush and had a hot meal flown out to us on Christmas Day. It was a great meal everything considering. The next day, one of the best guys in our outfit was killed in action. It is hard to remember Christmas of 69 without thoughts of him included. A very sad day indeed.

[> [> Subject: Re: 1969 CHRISTMAS Author: VIPER(Don Warshaw) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:52:42 11/27/00 Mon > >Author: VIPER(Don Warshaw) Subject: Re:Christmas 1969-70 SPENT THESE LOUSY DAYS IN DA NANG AND CAMBODIA

[> [> Subject: Re: 1969 CHRISTMAS Author: Nora H. Lebron [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:10:48 12/03/00 Sun > >Author: Nora H. Lebron Subject: Re: Christmas, 1969 > Being a member of the Women's Army Corps we were not allowed to carry weapons and our Wac Detachment was well protected by the Military Police. I remember Christmas in Vietnam as another working day except when we were allowed to go to see the Bob Hope Christmas show. I remember spending lots of nights in the bunkers.

[> [> Subject: Re: 1969 CHRISTMAS Author: William E. Novakovic [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:12:29 12/03/00 Sun > >Author: William E. Novakovic Subject: Christmas, 1969 Our artillery battery road marched to Phouc Vinh to support the First Cav in late December, 1969. On Christmas Eve morning we were rocketed at dawn just as I was lacing up my jungle boots. I raced to the duty howitzer and joined a couple guys firing a counter-battery fire at a pre-selected location. The other five pieces soon joined in. The unit expended 150 rounds in five minutes before a cease fire was ordered. The First Cav was impressed at the sheer volume of firepower delivered by a II Field Forces artillery unit, we were told by our battalion commander.