The Following Photographs depict life at Khe Sanh and the  surrounding hills.

“Home is where you Dig it”

C130 Aircraft Shot Down upon landing
United States troops take cover behind a defensive wall of sand bags during an attack by North Vietnamese Army forces during the Battle of Khe Sanh in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War conflict in 1968. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Captured Enemy
Charlie Med Surgeons
David Assum Maybe the only Marine that flew back to the Khe Sanh combat base hanging by one leg in a cargo net.
Bombing at Khe Sanh 1968
(Original Caption) A C-130 Hercules transport, taxis down runway with a load of combat essential supplies as fires from a previous night’s mortar attack still burn in the background sometime in February. Communist gunners shot down a C-123 transport at the Khe Sanh landing strip, March 1st, injuring one passenger aboard the plane.
Ammo Dump Explosion
United States troops take cover behind a defensive wall of sand bags during an attack by North Vietnamese Army forces during the Battle of Khe Sanh in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War conflict in 1968. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Larry Kubley CBMU 301/Bravo Last Convoy out.
Ray Cruz CBMU 301/Bravo
Ray Cruz CBMU 301/Bravo
Seabee Dennis Waler viewDown the Runway
Ronnie Lee Hawks KIA A/1/9
(Original Caption) A C-130 Hercules transport, taxis down runway with a load of combat essential supplies as fires from a previous night’s mortar attack still burn in the background sometime in February. Communist gunners shot down a C-123 transport at the Khe Sanh landing strip, March 1st, injuring one passenger aboard the plane.
Quick Hole Patch
Charles Otto Spillman CBMU 301/B
Dennis Wickersham
Our condo on hill 558
CBMU301/Bravo PUC
CBMU301/Bravo PUC
LT Marty Kux, Jerel Wenger, Sam Messer
Dennis Waler
Lt. Marty Kux
Everyone’s Favorite CPO
Bruce “Budda” Morris
Richard Schooler & Friend
Aboard Ship
Richard Schooler having a Beer
Human Remains
Human Remains Near DMZ
Danny Hobart Hill 861 before siege C/1/26
F/2/26 Gideon
Doc F/2/26
Digging new home
Bravo Co 2/26 March 4
Mine Card
Near West End of base
Richard Schooler at Dong Ha
Rich at Dong Ha
Sgt Schooler’s Squad Members
Schooler Squad Member
Beehive Fleshettes
Jim with tank
Jim Dawdy & Ontos
Edward Cody Adams CBMU 301/B KIA 4/16/68
Robert Topmiller, center, in Vietnam in 1968. On the left is Michael Archer
CBMU 301 Security Platoon Dong Ha
Highway to Dong Ha
Returning with a brother KIA
KC 130 Crash
C 123
Charlie Med
I Protest
Dr Edward Feldman receiving Silver Star
Joe Herrera with Hull in front
C130 Crash
Remember the Mule
Steve Rawls
KC 130 Crash
Hill 881S March 1968
Standing L to R: Nittenger, Carnahan, Reyes, Brain, Glover, Catrin
Kneeling L to R:
Payne and Shirmabukura
Chaplin Luffman
India Co Assaulting Hill 881 N
Home is where you dig it
Battle of Fox Trot Ridge
Battle of Fox Trot Ridge
Battle of Fox Trot Ridge
battle-of-Fox-Trot-Ridge
C/1/13 Gun
Battle of Fox Trot Ridge
Battle of Fox Trot Ridge
Battle of Fox Trot Ridge
February 25-29, 1968 881S
Scanner
4/4/1968-Near Khe Sanh, South Vietnam- First Cavalry soldiers stand with the bodies of dead comrades, as they wait to be evacuated from a hilltop along route #9, during their advance toward Khe Sanh.
Securing the Perimeter
Bunker Building
Ernie “Preacher” Husted – Bravo Recon
Larry Meyer Dec 67 at KCB
B Recon Frenchy
Charlie Med Personnel
Recon
B – Recon
Pagano B-Recon
Larry Meyer Recon
1/9 Marines
Alexandre Rodgers
The crew Rodgers Alexandre
Capt Bill Dabney Hill 881s
Doc Award
Randy Wahoske
Hill 861 taking incoming view from 881S
India Co Assaulting Hill 881 N
Pilot Ejects after NVA shoots his SkyHawk
Combat Base
Guns at Rockpile
The Ontos. Morning attack January 21, 1968. One of these “Bad Boys” was sitting on the airstrip right in front of my bunker. I knew that if their guns opened up, we were in big trouble. Jack Haigwood CBMU 301/B
Marine Waiting at strip for a flight out of Khe Sanh
Rescue of Downed Pilot
Supply Drop at KSCB photo by Robert Ellison
Robert Ellison Photographer
Tim Haley 1/9
Lone Marine from 1/9
1/9 Rock Quarry
Hill 861A
Helo Pad Hill 861A
LZ 861A
Hill 861 Helo Pad
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