The Following Photographs depict life at Khe Sanh and the surrounding hills. “Home is where you Dig it”
Remember the Mule
Grim reality of war
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
Joe Herrera with Hull in front
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)
Ammo Dump Explosion
Returning with a brother KIA
C130 Crash
Charlie Med
Chaplin Luffman
C/1/13 Gun
Alexandre Rodgers
The crew Rodgers Alexandre
Larry Meyer Dec 67 at KCB
Larry Meyer Recon
Pagano B-Recon
B – Recon
Recon
Ernie “Preacher” Husted – Bravo Recon
B Recon Frenchy
(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.
Capt Bill Dabney Hill 881s
David Assum Hill 881S
Scanner
India Co Assaulting Hill 881 N
Hill 881S March 1968
Standing L to R: Nittenger, Carnahan, Reyes, Brain, Glover, Catrin
Kneeling L to R:
Payne and Shirmabukura
Bombing at Khe Sanh 1968
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)
C130 Aircraft Shot Down upon landing
Captured Enemy
Hill 881 Marine Corps Museum
Robert Topmiller, center, in Vietnam in 1968. On the left is Michael Archer
images are from fellow Seabee & Khe Sanh Veteran of CBMU 301 Det Bravo.Larry Kubely SW3
images are not in any order, they depict life mostly SW since “Kube” is a SW3 and are his images
also a image of Cody Adam KIA 4/68 also life in a Conex box underground, and of the last Convoy out of Khe Sanh after it was closed take note of the Unit Flag and PUC pennant flying proudly
the last image of the men of Det Bravo showing what Brotherhood is…. notice no Flak jackets,helmets o…
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notice no Flak jackets,helmets or weapons but many smile.last image is what KSCB looks like from the air imagine being there