Found Collection of VN Combat Art, Negatives, Contact Sheets

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One of the American GI's assigned to the RTAVR Queen's Cobra on the horn with the Medevac chopper trying to coordinate the extraction of the several wounded Thai soldiers. The GI's, who were there not as advisors...the Queen's Cobra was an all volunteer, very professional regiment and knew what they were doing militarily, but more as "radio liasons" to communicate for the Thai's when American artillery support, helicopters, or other support was needed and language barriers may have arisen. My impression was they'd been pulled out of their units and given the assignment. The language barriers were steep, and in situations like this one there were breakdowns. The guys were as patient as sheep, but they were enlisted, dealing with foreign officers, who were concerned about their men and with officers in a chopper who were equally concerned about theirs.

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Soldiers from the RTAVR Queen's Cobra trying to move wounded soldier to be hoisted to Medevac chopper. The attempt, with a jury rigged stretcher, was aborted almost instantly.

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The major finally furiously pulled the plug on the whole Medevac attempt and called in the RTAVR's own tracks to come through the jungle to retrieve the wounded. This is his my friend Seree, the major's own RTO calling in the tracks.

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Wounded loaded on tracks, rest of unit waiting to mount up...RTAVR Queen's Cobra, Long Thanh, 1968.

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One of the GI's assigned to the RTAVR Queen's Cobra on the horn keeping in contact with gunships that were providing cover as we evacuated wounded on tracks after firefight in VC basecamp. Long Thanh area, 1968.

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Beyond that Long An Prov, 1968 and it's not 2/39th I can't be sure. Possibly 2/60th.

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Cholon, May 1968. I debated putting these up because of condition, but decided I'd see how they fly because of the subject matter. Unfortunately, as will be seen these were never seen as more than refences and were, obviously, dropped and used as coasters. Who knew. :ermm:

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Cholon, May 1968.

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Cholon, May 1968

[316th FS 324th FG]

Just bringing this back up because these are awesome to go through!

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Just bringing this back up because these are awesome to go through!

 

 

Thanks again. Appreciate the kind words.

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Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, I Corps, July 1968....

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Tank crew, Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, July 1968, I Corps, Wunder Beach AO

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Tango Charlie, Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, July 1968, I Corps. Truth be told, even without a caption anyone would know this guy was a cavalryman.

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Village search, Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, July 1968, I Corps

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On the move, Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, July 1968, I Corps...

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IPW sketch

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Dustoff sketch

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APC, Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, I Corps, July 1968

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Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, picking up 1st Cav infantry during sweep, July 1968

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Tank, Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, I Corps, July 1968

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Trooper, Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, July 1968

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Check ID's, Charlie Troop, 3/5th Cav, Wunder Beach AO, I Corps, July 1968...

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I was lucky enough to have some my work published in the Division magazine The Octofoil, in this case just a couple of - literally - clippings were used in this ad to get guys to join the Octofoil Association.

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Ths is another case of random sketches pulled together to illustrate an article. This issue was publishe after I had left country.