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"Angry Skipper"
Pictures from Vietnam
Standing
from left: Sgt. William "Chuck" Williams (KIA Dec.4, 1968), Sgt. William Howard,
Ssgt. A.Q. Campbell, Sgt Dennis Aprill and seated Lt. Doug Magruder on LZ Rita, taken just
a few days before Sgt. Williams was killed in December, 1968. All were in "White
Skull" platoon.
George Thaler near LZ Barbara,
1968............
Ed Regan near the Quang
Tri-Dong Ha bridge 1968
In the field off
LZ Carol -1968..&..Christmas on LZ Rita-1968
Ed Regan, An Khe 1968.
Playing poker in the
Bush, 1968. We used M-16 bullets for chips and a C-ration box for a table.
Tom
"Spump" Spampinato catching some ZZZZ's in the field and "Mouse". Both
photos taken off LZ Carol 1968
(from left) Mike
Cromie (KIA 1968), Jim Nix, Tom Spampinato & Mike McGhie (center with Bowie knife) on
LZ Carol Aug. 1968.
From the left: Dan
Lowe (D/2-7), Don Stoltz (KIA Dec. 4th, 1968), Mike "Mouse" McGhie and an
unknown Cavalier on R & R in An Khe October 1968. Don was killed along with Willie
Jones and Sgt. William C. Williams (shown in 1st photo on this page) in a place known as
"Chicken Valley" not far from LZ Rita. In all, we had 19 wounded and 3 killed
that day and according to the Company log we had 45 confirmed NVA KIA's.
This photo on LZ Rita
was taken January 18th, 1969 just 10 days before I was wounded. That's me on the left, Ed
Rivera and Ed Regan. Gil Carrillo and Ruben Rocha in the rear.
Rifle Range Platoon
Alpha Squad, from left to right: Falkner, Dennis Rhoades, Ken Baker and George Johnson.
Photo was taken March 9, 1969 near the Cambodian border.
From Left Center:
Flor Adorno, Gil Carillo, Corsino Toro and Rubin Rocha. Right Unidentified. Taken on LZ
Rita 1968.
Carl
"Pepe" Pipher (left) and Johnny "Duckbutter" Mays on LZ Carol 1968.
"Pepe" was KIA on 28Jan69 along with Warren "Snake" Eskridge in a
firefight near LZ Rita. Five were wounded Nick Donvito, Doc McGary, Paul Wadders, Jerry
White and Me.
Paul
Waters and Paul Reed (aka 2Pauls), "White Skull" platoon 68-69.
(From
left) LLoyd Jackson, Nick Donvito and Larry Hackett in Quan Loi, 1968.
Steve
Krueger's Jungle boots ("JB's"), gone after just three months of use. Note the
red clay earth, this photo was probably taken in Quan Loi.
Steve
Krueger sent me this photo of LZ Rita as we were taking over from the 1st Infantry
Division. They had Strawberry Ice Cream in those tanks.
Steve
shown here with another D2/8 Trooper on LZ Jo. LZ Jo was our first LZ after moving south
from Quang tri.
The
currency of Vietnam.
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Standing
from left: Sgt. William "Chuck" Williams (KIA Dec.4, 1968), Sgt. William Howard,
Ssgt. A.Q. Campbell, Sgt Dennis Aprill and seated Lt. Doug Magruder on LZ Rita, taken just
a few days before Sgt. Williams was killed in December, 1968. All were in "White
Skull" platoon.
George Thaler near LZ Barbara,
1968............ 
Tom
"Spump" Spampinato catching some ZZZZ's in the field and "Mouse". Both
photos taken off LZ Carol 1968
Paul
Waters and Paul Reed (aka 2Pauls), "White Skull" platoon 68-69.
(From
left) LLoyd Jackson, Nick Donvito and Larry Hackett in Quan Loi, 1968.
Steve
Krueger's Jungle boots ("JB's"), gone after just three months of use. Note the
red clay earth, this photo was probably taken in Quan Loi.
Steve
Krueger sent me this photo of LZ Rita as we were taking over from the 1st Infantry
Division. They had Strawberry Ice Cream in those tanks.
Steve
shown here with another D2/8 Trooper on LZ Jo. LZ Jo was our first LZ after moving south
from Quang tri.
The
currency of Vietnam.