Photos of Company B, 1/7 Cavalry in Vietnam

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2nd Platoon 1966 - Set 7
Photos of 2nd Platoon taken in 1966 - Set 7
Shelby: "Me sitting in a foxhole this is a good shot of an M-79 grenade launcher" [from Shelby] Shelby: "Dolehide and Sammy C." [from Shelby] Shelby: "The machine gun crew cleaning the gun. Jefferson, Davis, Wilson, and Engle" [from Shelby] Shelby [from Shelby]
Shelby: "This is me with all of my equipment. Some times I had more." [from Shelby] Shelby: "Me in front of the latrine and showers." [from Shelby] Shelby: "One helicopter just landed and the other one is about to." [from Shelby] Shelby: "SGT Anelia (sp?) handing out extra C rations. The people will do anything to get them. Even fight each other." [from Shelby]
Shelby: "Me and all kinds of V.N. kids. They all like to have their picture taken." [from Shelby] Shelby: "two armed troops. They are Viet Namese who are on our side." [from Shelby] Shelby: "Just some kids." [from Shelby] Shelby: "Taken at Happy Valley of some houses and a man plowing with a cow." [from Shelby]
Shelby: "The Vietnamese were selling soda pop." [from Shelby] Shelby: "Two sisters at happy valley the one on the right is 15 years old and her name is Diep Mai." [from Shelby] Shelby: "Wild boar we shot one night. Bill Smith in background. He is the one who has got so many punji stakes." [from Shelby] Shelby [from Shelby]
Shelby: "Chinook bringing ammo for artillery site." [from Shelby] Shelby: "We were waiting for A Co. to make contact and went to help. This was where 101st was having so much trouble." [from Shelby] Shelby: "This is a new type gun - it's called a 105" [from Shelby] Helicopter in flight [from Shelby]
Shelby: "helicopter picking up the dead" [from Shelby] Vietnamese Id [from Shelby] Vietnamese Ids [from Shelby] Shelby: "This was at "Doc To" me and buddy who became cook." [from Shelby]
Shelby: "At Ia Drang Valley. That is an onion, not an egg." [from Shelby] Shelby: "At Doc To - standing on top of a bunker." [from Shelby] Shelby: "At Doc To, from left to right Terry Kunetson, Ed Sharp, me, Billy Smith, Gary B. ? Garet [from Shelby] Shelby [from Shelby]
Shelby (center): "At Doc To" [from Shelby] Unknown [from Shelby] Commander's message [from Shelby] Thanksgiving Day prayer [from Shelby]
Shelby: "These are some buddies and a Sgt I had. The guy in front of me is the Sgt." [from Shelby] Shelby: "At Ia Drang - machine gun position" [from Shelby] Shelby: "This is the golf course. the big helicopters are Chinooks" [from Shelby] Shelby: "If you look close you can see the big 1st Cav patch on the top of the big hill in the back" [from Shelby]
Shelby: "IA DRANG the big arrow points to the thick jungle where A Co. 1/7 got almost wiped out. Small arrows point to dead bodies waiting to be taken out." [from Shelby] Shelby: At "Doc To" - buddy named Garet. No further explanation needed! [from Shelby] Unknowns and Shelby (2nd from right) [from Shelby] Shelby in Ia Drang [from Shelby]
Shelby: "me inside our tent at base camp" [from Shelby] Shelby (left): "At Cam Ranh Bay. Kenney Stevens from Rhode Island" [from Shelby] Christmas prayer [from Shelby] Christmas menu [from Shelby]
Seasons greetings from 1/7 [from Shelby] Shelby (right): "Dec '66, days before Christmas" [from Shelby] Shelby [from Shelby] Unknown, Shelby, Johnson (?) and Blessing in foxhole [from Angel]

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