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Date:
02/24/2015
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09:03:00 AM
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Hi, I was stationed in Chu Lai 4-1968 4-69 Co A 23rd S&T bn. Went to baldy with supply a couple of times. My brother was stationed there with the Marines 69-70.

Noe

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Date:
05/23/2015
Time:
07:03:00 PM
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Hi Richard,

My name is Julie (Wooten) Martin.

I posted a couple of pictures on the Bell UH-1 Huey Facebook Page (I've attached the same pix for you) and when I looked up Duc-Pho, Vietnam to make sure I had spelled correctly, I saw the link to your web site. I enjoyed it. My dad (Jim Wooten) was a civilian helicopter mechanic with LSI/Lear Siegler, Inc. from '68 - '72 and was also in Chu-Lai & Duc-Pho.

Thank you for all the work you've obviously put into your site. I also looked at a couple of other sites you posted links to.

God Bless you, and all who served, this Memorial Day.
Sincerely, Julie Martin....in Oklahoma

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Date:
05/25/2015
Time:
10:07:00 PM
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Looking for father -

Hello,

I am attempting to help my neighbor locate his father who served in the US military in late 1968 and early 1969. He does not have a lot of information, but he does know his dad was an officer and probably served in the Engineers Corp. My neighbor's name is Hung Puc Vo. His mother's name was Cuc Thu Pham. She would have been around 24 years old at the time he was conceived. She worked somewhere around Phu Lam, Tuy Hoa in 1969. She met his father around this time and Hung was conceived. When his mother was six months pregnant he left Vietnam. Before he left Vietnam he purchased several things for the baby. Hung's father also told Cuc that he had a son in the US who would have been 2 years old at the time.

I know this is very little to go on, but I am a veteran of Desert Storm and I understand our military community is very large and small at the same time.

Thank for your time and most of all THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!

Ronda Freeland
E-mail: rondivoo30@msn.com

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Date:
07/10/2015
Time:
7:48:00 PM
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I stumbled across your page and have noticed that we were in the same AO. I was in helicopters and flew as the left door gunner for the 176th Chu Lai from January 17, 1968 to November of 1968, and 174th Duc Pho from November 1968 to January of 1970. For those two years, I flew over many of the places that you photographed and it was quite an experience to see those places again. Though I was there after you had left, the places like Duc Pho, Chu Lai and LZ Baldy were a little different (more built-up) during my time. But the landscape seemed to have remained the same. I went back for a third tour in 1971 and saw at that time, that Highway One had been paved all the way up to the DMZ. You had a picture of a large river and a bridge going over it and if I understood correctly, you may have forgotten the name of that river. I believe that from the size of that river, the only one between Duc Pho and Chu Lai that was that big would be the river that flowed past Quang Nai, that is the Quang Nai River. (Unsure of spelling.)

I was fascinated to read your remarks about the Duc Pho runway and all of the work it took to level it. In 1969, Duc Pho was under siege with mortars, rockets and pack howitzer rounds that came in around the clock at all hours. Barely more than 2 hours would pass without any rounds coming in, so it really impacted what we could do, walking around Duc Pho, day or night. As I was out flying all day, I only had to be concerned with that when we came back to our base. But the runway at Duc Pho suffered the most because it couldn’t be maintained as it should have. It became so bumpy and lumpy that C130 and C123 Cargo Planes could no longer use the runway because of the uneven pavement which would tear the belly skins off of the aircraft as they bounced along the ground, there. Soon the Air Force only resupplied Duc Pho with the DeHaviland of Canada, C-7 Caribou. The Caribou had a very long landing gear on it, and could land and take off of the runway without damaging the underside of the aircraft.

I appreciate all of the work that the men from the Engineers did in helping the rest of us carry out our missions. Every morning, flying over the countryside, I would see the minesweepers clearing the roads. You had a lot of responsibility there.

Sincerly,
Ben M. Kennedy

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Date:
07/23/2015
Time:
10:11:00 PM
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Hello

I was stationed at the 4th Medical Battalion aid station at Duc Pho in the fall/winter of 1967. I wanted you to know I enjoyed looking at your website. With your permission, I hope, I've copied your photo of the medevac helicopters on the airstrip and uploaded it to my page on VetFriends.com. I included your name as the photographer. I've seen one other photo that shows what it was like while I was there, but now I can't find that one again. If you'd rather I take the photo down I will.

Hoping everything is good for you these days,
Gene Bivins

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Date:
08/25/2015
Time:
10:20:00 PM
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I was a military police sargent at Chu Lai and was the traffic accident investigator in August and September of 1969. I was sent to LZ Goldie to investigate a fatal traffic accident on QL-1 when a 39th Engr truck driver ran over and killed a Vietnamese civilian. The problem was a village chief claimed it was intentional and that the truck was speeding.

I went to the accident site and found skid marks that yielded 2 results- first the truck skidded and swerved trying to avoid the victim and second the truck was not speeding at the time- 30 mph according to skid marks and my calculations. I wrote up the incident as an accident- I was not 100% sure but no way in hell I could say that it was intentional so the driver got all the benefit of the doubt. I wonder if anyone remembers this incident?

Wes Haun
E-mail: wes_haun@msn.com

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Date:
09/03/2015
Time:
06:36:00 PM
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Hi. My name is Jason O. James. My father Stephen J. James served in Nam with the 39th as far as I know from 67-69. I know he was at LZ Snoopy. He was awarded the bronze Star. I have a ton of pictures and slides from his time there. If I could get in touch with anyone who knew him or served with him it would be greatly appreciated. I have some documents of his time in the army. I'm trying to write a book about him and his friends who volunteered at the same time when one of their childhood friends was drafted. Any type of help would be great. My father passed in February of 99.

E-mail: jojames3776@gmail.com
E-mail: nerokurtz@msn.com

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Date:
10/26/2015
Time:
02:06:00 AM
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Concerning Lewis Hylton -

I am his sister Ann --- and I enjoyed seeing this [photos] !! He is still fine in Piqua Ohio.

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Date:
12/13/2015
Time:
03:34:00 PM
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My name is Rich Cappiello. I was in C Company, 39th Engineer Battalion in 1969 & 1970. Can you add me to your guest list.

E-mail: recappiello@yahoo.com

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