Charlie Company 3rd Platoon:  Late 1969-Early 1970

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Fire Support Base Patton II

[1]  Vice President Spiro Agnew and astronaut Eugene Cernan arrive at FSB Patton II
[2]  Astronaut Eugene Cernan with WallyHohrein (Delta Co.)
[3]  Eddie Nails (KIA) at bunker No. 9
[4]  Eddie Nails (KIA) aboard huey
 

[5]  The Great Crapper Fire of 1969; 
[6]  Tom Oden, John Krolezyk, Dwight Cowan, Eddie Nails (KIA) rest on road sweep to Trung Lap
[7]  155mm self-propelled canon
[8]  SSG Steve Larson cleans his M-16

[9]  Playing volleyball outside the wire at FSB Patton II
[10]  Bunker line at Patton - looking towards the village of Trung Lap
[11]  Rodney 'Kimo' Namauu prepares to board Chinook
[12]  Edward Hopkins composes his epic "War and Peace 1970"
[13]  Charlie Company departs for Patrol Base Hunsley by Chinook

[14]  Jerry Henwood (back to camera), Ed Hopkins, Burnette (sitting on bunker)
[15]  Leroy Kopecky
[16]  John Krolezyk, Paul Slater in the field
 

Operations around Trung Lap and the Ho Bo Woods

[17]  3rd platoon command group inspects Viet Cong bunker
[18]  Blowing the bunker
[19]  Edward Hopkins in the field
 

[20]  Vietnamese civilians harvest rice as Charlie Co. takes a break nearby
[21]  M-60 gunner Jim Gramling;  [22]  Jim Hinton;  [23]  Ed Hopkins wades in stream

[24]  Lt. Ronald Roalstad crosses footbridge
[25]  Ox cart rests beside rice paddy as owners harvest rice
[26]  Ronald Reichter, John Guy;  [27]  John Krolezyk

[28]  John Krolezyk in the field
[29]  Searching Viet Cong tunnel entrance
[30]  Vietnamese civilians harvest rice near Trung Lap
[31]  Dick Cushing, Lt Ronald Roalstad wade in stream
 

Charlie Company at the Sugar Mill

[32]  Unknown, unknown, Jose Latore
[33]  Charlie Company rests in the shade - John Eckerle, SFC Namauu standing on left, SSG Steve Larson at right
[34]  3rd platoon members on stearn of LCI

  [35]  Henwood, Jose Latore, James Hinton, Bob Rathkamp chat with local women
 

 

Acknowledgements:
2/14th Infantry Vietnam Scrapbook:  Charlie Company 3rd Platoon:  Late 1969-Early 1970
Copyright © 2011 Kirk S. Ramsey
Pictures Copyright © 2011 Edward Hopkins
Last modified: April 02, 2020