Echo Vietnam

Photo Gallery #18

Cpl. Don Hinman

Echo Co Marines at China Beach

Echo Co Marines at China Beach

Echo Co Marines at China Beach

Echo Co Marines in "Mike Boat"

Guerrieri & Gillespie

L/Cpl Phifer

Sgt Gillespie Operation

      "Belt Drive"

Sgt Gillespie

Sgt Ken Ball & Kids

Sgt Ken Ball July 67

Operation Fremont

Sgt Kitchens, Lt Rasmussen,

Sgt Ball

Sgt Kitchens at China Beach

USS Paul Revere

Paul Marquis Web Master

Martin Patton & Craft

Martin Patton & Mickey

"DOC" Conners

Bill Napier

Bill Napier (center)

Bill Napier

Bill Napier & CMC Jim Jones

Bill Napier viewing John Waynes foot prints.

May 5 1967 A U.S. Marine of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, pistol in one hand and an active grenade in the other, inches his way forward to Hilltop 881 North.

May 3 1967 U.S. Marines stand on Hill 881 North

after a fierce nine daybattle near KheSanh

May 2 1967 A Machine gunner sprays covering fire as U.S. Marines, taking heavy casualties, advance on Hill 881 near KheSanh.

May 1967 A U.S. Marine radioman dashes through enemy fire just south of the DMZ. Marines of 2nd Bn 3rd Marines were pulling out of the area when they ran into North Vietnamese troops dug into bunkers and foxholes. Hours of close fighting and night long artillery barrage drove the enemy out.

May 1967 U.S. Marines sit atop Hill 881 South, recently established after

bitter fighting as a patrol base, near KheSanh.

May 1967 A Marine cradles the head of his buddy after he was wounded in fighting near KheSanh on Hill 881 twenty two Marines were killed and 69 injured in the fighting.

June 1967 A U.S. bomb explodes near Hoi An, 20 miles south of Danang as a Marine walks by the blast. U.S. Marines of 2nd Bn 3rd Marines, called in air strikes to clear out a cluster of snipers they encountered while patrolling the coast in Operation Beacon Torch.

Paul Blackwell right rear & Barry Christman front row right

Sgt Ken Ball

Capt. Richard Myrdal

David Millican

Matthew MacVane