December 1965 - March 1966 Photographs
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A photograph of my Dad on gaurd duty at the "Wolfhound Shack", home of Kolchak V, the 27th's mascot at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. The year is 1965, before the 27th Infantry was sent to Vietnam. My Dad wears the non-tropical utilities, and jump boots. He carries an M-14 rifle, standard issue to Army Infantrymen during the early days of American involvement in Vietnam.
My father in the field near Schofield Barracks, Hawaii shortly before his Division's deployment to South Vietnam.
A photograph taken sometime after March 21, 1966. My father was wounded in the leg on that date by shrapnel from an enemy mine during a night ambush patrol.
My Dad and James Jones, a fellow mortar man on March 31, 1966. They are preparing to fire an 81mm mortar. This photo was taken a couple of days after my father was wounded in the lower left leg by shrapnel.
The 81mm mortar.
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