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Feb. 8, 1968
Song is: "Help Me Make It Through The Night" from Vietnam Jukebox Entered Viet Nam via DeNang. (Came under Rocket attack during the first night, slept in bunker rest of night.) This song became very important to me this first night in Nam: Feb. 12, 1968 Reported to 1st Mar. Div.,1st Batt., H&S Company, 1st Marines. (Sent out to Alpha Company in field due to threat being made about a corpsman going to be brought back in a body Bag next time.) Didn't realize at the time but this song became very important to all of us. OPERATIONS IN ON: 1. Operation HUE CITY , Jan. 31-Mar. 3, 1968 Song is: "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" from Vietnam Jukebox (Joined Alpha Company, 1st Platoon Feb. 12th. Went out with squads on patrols, got in first fire fight (chain smoked 1 1/2 hours shaking afterwards). Last Time I saw Dan Harner alive as I was going by Citadel. ( Got letter from Chuck Mitchell 1970, never heard what happened to Dan either.) NOTE: March 28-April 1, 1968 Spent this time period in hospital with Amebiasis (Gastro-Intestinal, vomiting an Diarrhea from drinking contaminated well water in Hue even after waiting twice the water treatment time. Then reported back to Phu Bai only to discover that unit had moved on and was involved in: PEGASUS. 2. Operation PEGASUS RVN, April 1-15, 1968 (Helped to clear LZ on mountain top???) 3. Operation SCOTLAND RVN, April 15-20, 1968 Song is: "We Got To Get Out Of This Place!" from Vietnam Jukebox When I was hit by mortar schrapnel on the second patrol that we went out on at KHE SAHN at 11:30am, 1/2 hr before I was to be pulled in to take the E-4 Skills Advancement Test on April 20, 1968. I was taken to the Field Medical Hospital at PHU BAI and remained there until April 22, 1968. Events of April 20, 1968 Next page previous page click here to go to Land, air, sea and below page AND VIETNAM JUKEBOX This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page
Song is: "Help Me Make It Through The Night" from Vietnam Jukebox
Entered Viet Nam via DeNang. (Came under Rocket attack during the first night, slept in bunker rest of night.) This song became very important to me this first night in Nam:
Feb. 12, 1968
Reported to 1st Mar. Div.,1st Batt., H&S Company, 1st Marines. (Sent out to Alpha Company in field due to threat being made about a corpsman going to be brought back in a body Bag next time.) Didn't realize at the time but this song became very important to all of us.
1. Operation HUE CITY , Jan. 31-Mar. 3, 1968
Song is: "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" from Vietnam Jukebox (Joined Alpha Company, 1st Platoon Feb. 12th. Went out with squads on patrols, got in first fire fight (chain smoked 1 1/2 hours shaking afterwards). Last Time I saw Dan Harner alive as I was going by Citadel. ( Got letter from Chuck Mitchell 1970, never heard what happened to Dan either.) NOTE: March 28-April 1, 1968 Spent this time period in hospital with Amebiasis (Gastro-Intestinal, vomiting an Diarrhea from drinking contaminated well water in Hue even after waiting twice the water treatment time. Then reported back to Phu Bai only to discover that unit had moved on and was involved in: PEGASUS. 2. Operation PEGASUS RVN, April 1-15, 1968 (Helped to clear LZ on mountain top???) 3. Operation SCOTLAND RVN, April 15-20, 1968 Song is: "We Got To Get Out Of This Place!" from Vietnam Jukebox When I was hit by mortar schrapnel on the second patrol that we went out on at KHE SAHN at 11:30am, 1/2 hr before I was to be pulled in to take the E-4 Skills Advancement Test on April 20, 1968. I was taken to the Field Medical Hospital at PHU BAI and remained there until April 22, 1968. Events of April 20, 1968 Next page previous page click here to go to Land, air, sea and below page AND VIETNAM JUKEBOX This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page
Song is: "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" from Vietnam Jukebox
(Joined Alpha Company, 1st Platoon Feb. 12th. Went out with squads on patrols, got in first fire fight (chain smoked 1 1/2 hours shaking afterwards). Last Time I saw Dan Harner alive as I was going by Citadel. ( Got letter from Chuck Mitchell 1970, never heard what happened to Dan either.)
NOTE: March 28-April 1, 1968 Spent this time period in hospital with Amebiasis (Gastro-Intestinal, vomiting an Diarrhea from drinking contaminated well water in Hue even after waiting twice the water treatment time. Then reported back to Phu Bai only to discover that unit had moved on and was involved in: PEGASUS.
2. Operation PEGASUS RVN, April 1-15, 1968
(Helped to clear LZ on mountain top???)
3. Operation SCOTLAND RVN, April 15-20, 1968
Song is: "We Got To Get Out Of This Place!" from Vietnam Jukebox When I was hit by mortar schrapnel on the second patrol that we went out on at KHE SAHN at 11:30am, 1/2 hr before I was to be pulled in to take the E-4 Skills Advancement Test on April 20, 1968. I was taken to the Field Medical Hospital at PHU BAI and remained there until April 22, 1968. Events of April 20, 1968 Next page previous page click here to go to Land, air, sea and below page AND VIETNAM JUKEBOX This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page
Song is: "We Got To Get Out Of This Place!" from Vietnam Jukebox
When I was hit by mortar schrapnel on the second patrol that we went out on at KHE SAHN at 11:30am, 1/2 hr before I was to be pulled in to take the E-4 Skills Advancement Test on April 20, 1968. I was taken to the Field Medical Hospital at PHU BAI and remained there until April 22, 1968.
Events of April 20, 1968
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