Typhoon Kate, October 1970 + some random photos

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Rocket attack on MAG 11 Marble Mountain, Danang. From our AO.

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The Tu Cau Bridge in our AO after being blown up by Viet Cong.

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Our Counterparts with captured 122mm rocket

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Mobile to night ambush site through village at dusk

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Our Navaho pointman, Chief, and me.

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Highway One, flooded from Typhoon Kate

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Our teams had to be evacuated because all the AO's were under water from the typhoon. Some of us had to wade through waist-deep paddy water to a CH46 that was forced to hover at three feet over the surface of the flood water. The crew chief helped hoist us and our gear aboard and we were airlifted to LZ Baldy.

Photographed from CH46: 7th Company, 2nd Combined Action Group TAOR, Dien Ban District, Quang Nam Province, I Corps, flooded from Typhoon Kate, October 1970.

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Bob Carrier and Frenchy Pellitiere, high and dry at LZ Baldy with counterparts.

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