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| Published Online: January 25, 2010 |
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Maj David P Brewer Da Nang 1967-1968
Getting ready to leave LZ Digger 1970
Lance Corporal Dick Murphy, Mike Co. 3rd Bn. Fourth Maines Regiment was a "Gung Ho" Marine as it says on his helmet. Arriving in Vietnam on December 14, 1967, he was wounded twice before being killed in action on June 15, 1968.
caption on my helmet was "Draft Beer, not Polaks" and the orange button said "Does Vietnam Exist". Clyde Lewandowski
Picture taken by Jay Shelby KIA March 1, 1967 Bong Son. he helmet is worn by Van Wilson and is an NVA helmet captured in the Ia Drang Aug 1966. Submitted by Dennis Blessing 2nd plt B Co 1st Bn 7th Cav 1st Cav Div.
SPH-4 flight helmet worn by a Huey pilot in B Troop, 7/1 Air Cavalry
For some reason I never wrote anything on my helmet camouflage cover. In fact, as you can see in this picture, taken about noon on the first day of the Tet Offensive just outside Bien Hoa City, I didn’t even have a camouflage cover on my helmet. Although the picture is a little washed out after all these years, you can see that the helmet actually looks black. That’s because a few days earlier I used it as a pot over an open fire to boil some eggs that had magically appeared from somewhere. If you look real close, you can see that the helmet’s chin straps are missing. That’s because like a dummy, I accidentally burned them off while boiling the eggs. Maj.Gen.(ret) David T. Zabecki Editor Emeritus Vietnam Magazine
sample helmet - art by Tyler Newbold
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Trying to upload a photo to your helmet gallery, but your form doesn't seem to work. I don't have a website; why can't I just copy to photo to a blank email and submit it? Why does this have to be complicated?
I don't h ave a picture anymore but I had drawn a picture of a knight chesspiece (ala Paladin in Have Gun, Will Travel) with the words
"Nixon's Hired Guns" underneath. Needless to say it was not well received by the lifers.
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