OldRecon
03-24-2004, 09:40 AM
In National Geographic. - Vol. 127, no. 1, January 1965, There's a story with front page picture about how a rebellion, among the South Vietnamese Montagnards in the area of ChuMnang/Buon Brieng (south of Pleiku), was contained with the help of US. Special Forces personel.
Story written and photos taken by journalist Howard Sochurek.
The most prominent figure in that story being capt. Vernon W. Gillespie Jr. 5 SFGA.
Another unnamed Montagnard individual that figure prominently in this story (with several pictures) apparently later was uncovered as an agent for VC.
Capt. Gillespie also apparently figured in another story in Life magazine with photos by Larry Burroughs.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/08.jpg
U.S. Special Forces Captain Vernon Gillespie Jr., leader of a twelve-man team of advisers to a highly trained battalion of Montagnard troops. Buon Brieng, November 1964
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/09.jpg
Gillespie on the radio to his base camp while strike force soldiers burn down a Vietcong hideout. November 1964.
Larry Burroughs otherwise famous for pictures like these:
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/031.jpg
"Reaching Out." Guided from a first-aid station to a helicopter evacuation clearing, yet still wanting to turn back to his dead commanding office, a marine gunnery sergeant instinctively moves toward a mud-splattered comrade. Wounded for the third time, these would be his last minutes in Vietnam before being flown to a hospital ship at sea and, eventually home. Mutter Ridge, Nui Cay Tri, October 5, 1966.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/035.jpg
Operation Prairie - North Vietnamese Army: 1,397 killed in action, 27 prisoners of war; United States: 239 killed in action, 1,214 wounded in action. Hill 484, October 1966.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/021.jpg
Ammunition airlift during the relief of Khe Sanh. April 1968.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/019.jpg
A lone A-1 Skyraider drops phosphorous explosives on a group of thatched huts. Ban De, 1966.
Larry Burroughs dissapeared in Laos(?) during a US supported cross border operation by South Vietnamese forces.
Howard Sochurek was reported as missing after a helicopter flight over Cambodia, Late 1960's.
Capt. Vernon Gillespie.... well what became of the peoples involved in refered story later on??
Story written and photos taken by journalist Howard Sochurek.
The most prominent figure in that story being capt. Vernon W. Gillespie Jr. 5 SFGA.
Another unnamed Montagnard individual that figure prominently in this story (with several pictures) apparently later was uncovered as an agent for VC.
Capt. Gillespie also apparently figured in another story in Life magazine with photos by Larry Burroughs.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/08.jpg
U.S. Special Forces Captain Vernon Gillespie Jr., leader of a twelve-man team of advisers to a highly trained battalion of Montagnard troops. Buon Brieng, November 1964
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/09.jpg
Gillespie on the radio to his base camp while strike force soldiers burn down a Vietcong hideout. November 1964.
Larry Burroughs otherwise famous for pictures like these:
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/031.jpg
"Reaching Out." Guided from a first-aid station to a helicopter evacuation clearing, yet still wanting to turn back to his dead commanding office, a marine gunnery sergeant instinctively moves toward a mud-splattered comrade. Wounded for the third time, these would be his last minutes in Vietnam before being flown to a hospital ship at sea and, eventually home. Mutter Ridge, Nui Cay Tri, October 5, 1966.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/035.jpg
Operation Prairie - North Vietnamese Army: 1,397 killed in action, 27 prisoners of war; United States: 239 killed in action, 1,214 wounded in action. Hill 484, October 1966.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/021.jpg
Ammunition airlift during the relief of Khe Sanh. April 1968.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/019.jpg
A lone A-1 Skyraider drops phosphorous explosives on a group of thatched huts. Ban De, 1966.
Larry Burroughs dissapeared in Laos(?) during a US supported cross border operation by South Vietnamese forces.
Howard Sochurek was reported as missing after a helicopter flight over Cambodia, Late 1960's.
Capt. Vernon Gillespie.... well what became of the peoples involved in refered story later on??