Reply With QuoteVery cool info and pics man! Thanks for taking the time to find 'em and share them.
Finally found the photos and documents for the Sea Cobra US Navy Snipers, His names is Ronald Santoro, on his 601-5 shows him at Qui Nhon Vietnam Sept 1969, on SEA FLOAT in 1970 and as a Snipper (spelt wrong) May 1970 in Cam Rahn Bay 1970.
The other Doc shows he and 3 others, one Ron Smith of WI, Robert Grimsley, Roger Presley all traveling for one week of Sniper Training at the US Army school in Cu Chi (25th??)
sorry for the quality these came off slides, got some more Doc and photos some where just gotta find em
Very cool info and pics man! Thanks for taking the time to find 'em and share them.
Would you by chance know if the fellow on the right is named Harry Constance?Originally Posted by YANKEEBOBB
SEAL's - Whiskey Platoon.
^^I pulled out a copy of his book Good to Go and there is a photo of him from that same angle and it looks like him.
Hey guys! No he's not, the guy on the left is PO 3rd class Tim O'Farrell & Lt. Richard Couch with the stoner. The picture was taken just before taking off on a mission.
Last edited by YANKEEBOBB; 05-12-2008 at 11:32 AM.
Some more Navy SEALs.
And below, the two famous MOH winners:
Michael Thornton
Tom Norris (on right) and Kiet Nuyen - LDNN
SEALs:
http://www.ecpad.fr/ecpa/PagesDyn/RFrame.htm
A lot of photos about legion etrangere here (Indochina, Algeria etc.)
Met a guy in this photo...
Sorry for the thread hijack, just figured some folks here would find this interesting.
Over the past weekend I attended the Save The Montagnard People picnic (www.Montagnards.org) in North Carolina and had the pleasure of hanging out Y'Tlur Eban (goes by Thomas here in the US) I had met Thomas before this past weekend and he showed me his photo in NG. Thomas is the guy with his hand to his face.
My girlfriend and I were honored to receive bracelets from Thomas, drink some Numpai that he made and we both purchased some items that his wife wove (tribal shirt for me, shoulder bag for her)
Thomas ended up working as an interpreter for a few different camps and at least one Mike Force. This guy is a humble old warrior and it is an honor to call him a friend.
Here are some photos of this weekend:
Thomas holding a photo of himself and one of his camp commanders - this was taken during his airborne training.
Thomas, his wife and me.
Chris Pollard
Founder
Montagnard Health Care Assistance Project
www.MHCAP.org
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Very cool!! I love to have that shirt, bet you're proud to wear it.
There was a little cerimony here in Greer, S.C. with the local Biet Dong Quan vets also.
Oh yeah. It has the exact same markings that the one Captain Gillespie is wearing. It is my understanding that Y'Tlur's wife was at Buon Bieng during the FULRO uprising, so it figures that the markings are the same. It took her well over a month to weave the shirt and the quality is amazing.
Y'Tlur made the bracelets by hand and right now it's a toss up which item (shirt or bracelet) would slide into the number one slot as most prized possession.
This weekend was great, I also met the nurse that gave a friend the bracelet he still wears today. Here is a photo of him at Duc Co. He was camp commander at both Duc Lap and Duc Co:
Christopher Pollard
Founder
Montagnard Health Care Assistance Project
www.MHCAP.org
bump for greatness, these are some of the best pic's i have seen.
French troops in Nam.
French FFL at Dien Bien Phu
SEALs
What makes you think all French units at Dien Bien Phu were from the Foreign Legion? Marcel Bigeard, in the third photo, commanded 6 BPC- a colonial parachute battalion, made up, besides the Vietnamese element common to almost all units in the expeditionary corps by this stage, of Frenchmen. One of the officers in the colour plate is the commander of a Vietnamese parachute battalion. I would hazard a guess that many of the other photos you have posted (which are excellent by they way) are not of Legion units. Besides French (Colonial or Metropolitan) units, there were also Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian, Senegalese and of course (the largest contingent) Vietnamese in the expeditionary corps.FFL at Dien Bien Phu.
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