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Boom! The shock wave reach us, followed a second later by the sound of an exploding 500-pound bomb, dropped from a Marine A4, slamming into a VC hiding place. We are on a convoy to Quang Ngai, south of Chu Lai.
Chapter 10 - Close Calls Come in Many Sizes
dealing with daily—getting shot at, dodging mortars, ducking a road mine or other explosive ordinance.
Here are two excerpts from Chapter 10 . . . .
Click on a photograph to see and read more . . . .
While this outfit was pretty safe inside the wire of a sprawling military enclave, occasionally the guys experienced what the Marine and Army patrols were
Viet Cong road mine kills two . . .
71's dive team searches river bottom for missing Army patrol
US Navy driver, Billy Johnson is helped aboard the Marine AMTRACK by one of the Army riflemen. We were using double hose regulators in those days.
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SEABEE71
IN CHU LAI
A 350 page memoir of a Navy Journalist's 14 months with the Seabees.
Photographs and text copyright © 1967 and 2019 by David H. Lyman
An Army EOD man probes the road surface with his K-Bar, outlining the location of a second VC road mine. The blown Marine six-by, missing its body, killing two, rest in the ditch.