Jim Snyder with our three interpreters: Jack the Nung to his right; Dung (June) to his left; sitting beneath Dung, Jeff, who many of us thought was a double. Jeff spoke the best American, was a real likable kid, and worked mostly with the two docs. To his right is Hong, our truck driver who hauled our water in everyday from the An Lao river plus chow, various supplies, and etc. When you were up stream and saw what went into the river, you were real glad the docs purified each load!

A chopper resupply to Snyder’s patrol on a knoll west of Tam Quan and to switch out medics.

Coordinates on back of picture - LZ at BS903147.

Pick up of Da’Capn’s patrol west of Tam Quan. Cap with back to camera,
left of him Ham, a striker, Jack standing, right side Bucky with bowed head.

Tet 1966 party - Buddhist New Year - Ernie is toasting the LLDB team leader (Lt. Thuan). On left side of table besides Ernie is Daffy then Ski, right side top of Jim’s head, Chief, Dung our most trustworthy and loyal interpreter. The other guys were at the end of the table you can’t see.

Ferrell (Bear) with the long sought-after 4.2” mortar we finally got a month or so before our tour was up. We just had set it up and test fired it. Later we built an extra large pit with sandstone walls deeper than the tube with firing azimuths marked in the stone. We were all extra happy because this beauty could reach out 6000 yards or 5500 meters or 3.4 miles and cover our return from patrols a lot better than our 4000 meter 81’s could and nobody dared trust ARVN Arty unless there was an American advisor there to adjust targets.

Test fire of the 4.2 with WP into free bomb zone. We were elated at how far out this big puppy could cover us, especially with Ernie or Rudy at the gun.