July 16, 1969 Members of 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
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Fortunate Son intensifies
Kids fight wars
Looks like the boys gotta go find Colonel Kurtz.
I wonder how many made it back to the world.
Second from the right is James Baylor.
He was wounded on the 8th day of the Battle of Hamburger Hill. On 18 May 1969, while advancing up the hill, a friend of his had been shot in the chest. Moments later he was also hit.
I can’t link to it directly because the spam filter in this sub deletes comments with external links but the following incomplete link, which can be copied and pasted to your browser, goes to a short video of him describing the event:
facebook.com/NationalPurpleHeartHallofHonor/videos/james-baylor/1365663273779239/
Top left; King, Lt. Wolfe, Bunny, Lerner, Rhah
Bottom; Big Harold
The gentleman on the right, seen him in many pictures. Believe he was a tunnel rat. One picture I believe he was carrying a sawed off carbine
I wonder where all those youngsters are now ❤️🥺
The guy in front is stealing everybody’s thunder lol
Sipping on some booty sweat!
These are the guys who inspired Tropic Thunder. Great documentary
Random…but the same day Apollo 11 launched.
hey im in there
RAKKASAN ⛩️, AIR ASSAULT
Now, they told us that Vietnam was gonna be very different from the United States of America. Except for all the beer cans and the barbecue, it was.
“Here come the rooster!”
Badass pic
Dude is the shades is fly af
Smokey Robinson – Tracks of my tears
The Hamburger Hill chapter of the Rakkasans Association holds a reunion almost every year in Clarksville, TN. It’s really cool hearing them tell their stories. Have had the opportunity to attend 3 times. Also the movie “Hamburger Hill” is probably one of the greatest vietnam/war films ever made (in contention with “Brotherhood of War” a Korean film that is just outstanding).
“You had Dallas, from Phoenix. Cleveland from Detroit. And Tex.. I cant remember where Tex was from..”
Every time I see a photo of soldiers during the Vietnam war I get so sad. So many young men forced to fight a war that the was not winnable. Imagine getting sent to die to in a war that you didn’t even support.
Welcome home my brothers
A few years back I was standing line at the State Fair and two Vietnam veterans of the 101st were behind me. We struck up a conversation and I had to ask them something that I had heard years ago. That the Vietnamese would call them the “chicken soldiers” because of the eagle patch and there wasn’t a word in Vietnamese for “eagle”. They told me that it was absolutely true.
It’s a shame to see such young kids in such a horrific war.