Vietnam Report: Operations at Khe Sanh (Sound, HD) 

Sorry for your loss.

Thank you for what your Father did.

Condolences. Tough men for sure.

I was with whiskey Btry 1st Bn 13th Marines. What was his unit?

Hi Julian, thanks for your Unconditional Service.

Julian Kalama - Thank You for your Service. My cousin was there, during the siege period as a Marine Artilleryman. Clearance Parkan from Victoria, Texas. Did you happen to know him?

Were the NVA tough?

Thank you for your service, Mr. Kalama.

What unit?

Thank you for your sacrifice sir 🧞‍♀️🧚🏿‍♂️🛬🧜🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️❤️❤️

thank you for your service!!! Somehow I didn't get drafted. I had a high draft lottery number! My father was a world war, two army vet. He fought the Japanese for three years in the South Pacific. He told me not to join and let them draft me.

Yeah, if you had a good crew you could put those rounds out pretty quickly. I spent about two weeks as part of a 105 towed howitzer battery when I first got to 'Nam. After that I moved up to the 155 towed howitzer, and stayed there. The 155 rounds weighed about 99 pounds each and didn't use a shell. After 'humping ammo' for a while, those 99 pound rounds were like working out with weights and got us in pretty good shape. We must have moved around to a different area of Vietnam every two weeks or less because we became sitting ducks in no time for the VC. They finally caught up to us in December of '69, when about 8 of us guys (that I know of) got wiped out by mortar or rocket fire. If I remember correctly, we were pretty close to the Cambodian border at the time.

Good ole Fire for Effect Marine Arty back in 94,we trained with the 105's and did gun salute ceremonies. Man those 105's saw a ton of action in WW2,Korea and Vietnam. 👑KING OF BATTLE

I was there in 68, my helmet cover was ERDL.

@@f4tweet good to know. thanks for the info. do you by any chance have any pics of you wearing it then?

My dad was there from 67-69 and his was the Mitchell cover.

That's a 106 recoilless, same thing that was on the Ontos.

i Researched You Tube. Roge, firing the weapon was my cousin.

She made a hell of a mess in Hue City on the Ontos. My dad told me about the beehive rounds out of those things.

I believe that is a 106 mm recoiless rifle round. The holes are I think part of a muffler for the back blast to enable the weapon to be recoiless when fired. It's used mostly for direct fire. Have seen many fired but was an 0311 Rifleman.

@@fredmonahan3627 Thank you. I forgot to mention. The shell I had was 8" across at base , narrowed to 6" at the opening. stamped 6" 1968.

@@fredmonahan3627 you are correct, to allow the gases to escape to the breach and beyond, 11-Hotel 106RR

The Hill Fights. Seldom hear about these.

The M107 175mm SP units were primarily ARMY, operating from Marine bases JJ Carroll and The Rockpile. My Dad was there. 2nd/94th ARMY artillery, battery C, Apr 67-Aug 68. And the NVA GOT hammered by his guns, as this film proves. Cathy, Comanchero, Cherry Buster, and an 8" howitzer named Cong Crusher.

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British Army lost 52,000 in 3 days.

@Imix Muan I found this: Historian Gwynne Dyer compared the carnage at Borodino to "a fully-loaded 747 crashing, with no survivors, every 5 minutes for eight hours."

Stupid ottoman propagandist : the us armed force got 45 000 casualties far away from it homeland against more than 1 000 000 nva and vc, who receive huge support from the soviet union and despite not starting an ground warfare in north Vietnam. In contrast, the disgusting ottoman regime lost (and still suffer casualties until this days) at leasr 10 000 disgusting "soldiers"/"policemans"/ mobsters from the grey wolves and other state-backed mafia in anatolia despite huge military and political support from the US, germany, the UK, spain, and an israeli 5th column such as netanyahu and a nearly nonexistant support from putin and france for the kurdish fighters that still humiliate the ottoman dictatorship.