McFail & Spooky?
Bob Cowan, Dave Blinn waiting for the fog to burn off.
Bob Cowan?
Dave Blinn?
Sam Bradford?
I got this from 117thahc.org. I believe that's me on the far left. - Ben Hess
LZ Sally '69 or '70, camera pointed NW
? Steve Sampson ?
A Shau Valley taken from approximate location of FSB Rendezvous about 5 months after Rendezvous shut down. Camera pointed to the northwest I believe. This was no-mans land at the time. I believe that was Razor Back on the right and I think Hamburger Hill was in the middle someplace.
A Shau Valley taken from approximate location of Fire Support Base Rendezvous about 5 months after Rendezvous shut down. Camera pointed to the south.
FSB Rendezvous about 5 months after it shut down. I spent 9 days as POL (refuel facility) officer at Rendezvous in Sept. '69. It sucked big time. Hot, humid, wet, mud, a stream of piss going through our tent and we got mortared nearly every day. Just to the left of the center of the top right quadrant you can still see 3 "T's". That's what was left of the POL. I helped move it there from it's previous location, to the right of the bottom right quadrant.
Another taken from over Rendezvous camera pointed to the south.
Click here for a better picture at another web site. Click on the picture to enlarge it and then put the cursor on the lower right corner and when an icon appears, click on it to enlarge even more.
A Shau with camera pointed to the west while over FSB Rendezvous. I think that brown hill, just to the right of the center of the picture and just below the horizon is Hamburger Hill.
Eagle's Nest taken for helicopter over FSB Rendezvous.
This aircraft was flying a search mission in the Ashau Valley. It had a Cobra as cover. The pilot was shot and the observer, who was not a pilot, took the controls. The Cobra was able to talk the observer in to flying it back to LZ Sally. He crashed while trying to land. The observer was able to walk away from the crash. The pilot was already dead.
Short final to a landing zone near the DMZ. Look at those mountains in the background. I believe they were once triple canopy jungle. As you went further west along the DMZ you got back into jungle terrain and/or fields of elephant grass.
City of Hue
HHC Second Brigade, 101st Helicopters next to Highway One (to the right but you can't see it) across the street from a district headquarters, which was between Da Nang and Phu Bai. About 30 degrees to the left was a large mountain, that had an old abandoned French facility at the top.
Just north of FSB Birmingham, hovering in a loach with one hand and trying to take a picture of a baboon with the other hand. Not only is that dumb but it's a good way to get shot at.
If anyone wants to confirm my story, find Sam Bradford who was the one shot down in that LZ.
