May 23, 200917 yr Author #126 Some shots of the M-2 system. This isn't Vietnam but shows the system pretty well:
May 24, 200917 yr #127 To be honest - I don't know. It's been almost 40 years since I saw a 1 Cav Div SOP; and that was my verbage, trying to describe the D Co recognition device. Soooo..... I consulted the dictionary: Diamond - Any rhombus shaped figure with its diagonals oriented vertically and horizontally. Rhombus - Any equilateral parallelogram, EXCEPT a square. Hmmmm. I defer to you.
May 24, 200917 yr Author #128 To be honest - I don't know. It's been almost 40 years since I saw a 1 Cav Div SOP; and that was my verbage, trying to describe the D Co recognition device. Soooo..... I consulted the dictionary: Diamond - Any rhombus shaped figure with its diagonals oriented vertically and horizontally. Rhombus - Any equilateral parallelogram, EXCEPT a square. Hmmmm. I defer to you. CaptCav, Sounds like a square on its point is better description to me. Geez, I never thought high school geometry would come back to haunt me 20 years later! Ray
May 24, 200917 yr #129 CaptCav, Didn't 7/17th go to the geometric designators late in the war? I've got some shots of C/7/17th birds with small, solid yellow designators like 1st Cav, circa 1971. Jon
July 10, 200917 yr #130 Guys: These appear to me to be all post-Viet Nam AH-1 photos but I figured that the rotary wing nuts here would enjoy seeing them anyway. I ran across them on this site: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?t=120243 Regards, Charlie Flick
August 15, 200916 yr #131 Guys: These appear to me to be all post-Viet Nam AH-1 photos but I figured that the rotary wing nuts here would enjoy seeing them anyway. I ran across them on this site: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?t=120243 Regards, Charlie Flick I have a named SPH4 from 244th AVN mentioned in the accident and I just purchased this off Ebay. Mentions the units involved as well as the U Minh forest where the crash took place. Interesting to find all this all in just one night.
June 6, 201016 yr #132 UH-1D/H slicks- Blue AH-1 and i think UH-1B/C gunships- Red OH-6 and OH-58- White Red+White= Pink Team Red+Blue= Purple team I hope that helps. Ray Jon will be along shortly to correct me if I made any mistakes. He's the Vietnam gunship guru after all. Team colors were first used by the 1/9 Cav. In April of 67 we worked with B/1/9 at Duc Pho and that is the first I heard of them. White teams then were flying H-13's, red teams were the gunships and the blues were not the slicks but the aerorifle platoon, each squad had its own D model. Pink teams were an H-13 and a gunship. RFO
June 25, 201016 yr #133 what a great thread. Just in time. We got our UH-1 delivered and we are starting to deliberate on the paint scheme. It served with the 101st, but we really want a "pop". Thanks for all the info and more importantly, thanks to the guys who went and did!
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