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    Lam Son 719--Living & Transporting

    Another quick story to go with my earlier post. I wasn't going to tell this one....just don't try it.....but heck, it was life on a firebase and we were young and dumb. Anyway, after arriving that first day and hauling our duffle bags from the trucks into the tent and deciding not to fill...
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    Lam Son 719--Living & Transporting

    The first picture is the east perimeter of Vandergrift as QL9 comes in. As I wrote in an earlier post 3rd Plt 444th Trans was moved from Quang Tri to Vandergrift to be shuttle drivers between there and KheSan. The next picture is the tent we were assigned to live in. We asked about a bunker...
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    Lam Son 719--Living & Transporting

    There's that bridge over the river again. It was on a hairpin curve and had to be approached at just the right angle with a tractor trailer. Immediatly after crossing that one, the bridge in the second picture had to be crossed and that put us up into the area we called Sherwood Forest which...
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    Lam Son 719--Living & Transporting

    There's that bridge over the river again. It was on a hairpin curve and had to be approached at just the right angle with a tractor trailer. Immediatly after crossing that one the bridge in the second picture had to be crossed and that put us up into the area we called Sherwood Forest which...
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    Lam Son 719--Living & Transporting

    Hey EZ...Was he in the 5th Infantry Mechinized?
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    Lam Son 719--Living & Transporting

    This is what I meant by mud. I took this picture as our 444th convoy was arriving at Vandergrift on a convoy from Quang Tri. That road is QL 9. Driver, I hope you don't mind me adding a few photos from this time. I had three rolls of film, ran out, and there was no place to get more.....Gary
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    Lam Son 719--Living & Transporting

    Here's a couple of pictures of Route 9 as it passes threw the Rockpile area. The road was paved in this area and continued that way for a while before turning to dirt and mud before Vandergrift....Gary 444th (attached to 64th for LamSon 719
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    Lam Son 719--Living & Transporting

    I was a 5T tractor driver during LamSon 719. I arrived in Quang Tri on March 1st, 1971 with the 444th Trans Co and we were attached to the 64th Trans there. Two of the 444th guntrucks came up...Snoopy and Frustration. We hauled from Quang Tri to Vandergrift and Khe San. On March 15th my...
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