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 A421 Ba Xoai Original Team Patch 23 viewsOriginal A421 Team patch, made in Can Tho circa mid-1970, 50 total. Designed by Team Medic, SSG Michael J. Berry
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 A421 Ba Xoai Original Team Patch (Reverse)35 viewsOriginal A421 Team patch (reverse), made in Can Tho circa mid-1970, 50 total. Designed by Team Medic, SSG Michael J. Berry. Backing is brown paper (like a grocery bag)
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 20230426_A421_ARCLIGHT11 viewsB52 ARCLIGHT bomb strike on Nui Cam, about 1.5-2km southeast of A421/Hill 58. Concussions from the strike blew fluorescent bulbs out of the lights in the medical bunker.
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 20230426_A421_CH47100 viewsRoutine re-supply mission by CH47 Chinook. Palletized ammo being dropped into a 5 ton dump truck. The camp got regularly resupplied with ammo, chow, and beer via CH47. This 5t dump truck later struck a hastily employed AT mine in a road after inserting a US SF/CIDG patrol at a nearby village; two US SF personnel were in the crew cab - neither was injured in the explosion, as only the rear wheels initiated the mine.
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 20230426_A421_FDC_Nui Cam15 viewsView overlooking Team House on left (limestone block construction with PSP/sandbag roof; the 105mm howitzer and 4.2" mortar pits were straight out from the FDC (just out of the photo); 400gal water tank on roof of Team House for the kitchen, and a 400gal water trailer between Team House and berm; FDC bunker built into berm. Main entrances to FDC bunker and Team House immediately opposite on another. Far mountain to NE is Nui Cam; smoke to extreme left of photo is from initial bombs from a B52 ARCLIGHT missi
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 A421 Ba Xoai Hill 5815 viewsLooking W to E, main berm w/bunker; secondary berm w/FDC bunker; Team House behind berm/FDC; Hill 58 behind Team House
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 20230426_A421_Hill 58 Looking W to E18 viewsCamp Ba Xoai in shadow of Hill 58, looking from west to east at sunrise; Nui Cam mountain to right of Hill 58
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 20230426_A421_John Aerts12 viewsSGT John Aerts (Weapons SGT) overlooking crater after an obsolete ordnance disposal operation which took place outside the camp perimeter.
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 20230426_A421_John Meyer_John Aerts14 viewsSGTs John Meyer (Operations) and John Aerts (Weapons), prior to a mine sweep (note mine detector held by SGT Aerts) of the main approach road into Ba Xoai. Note Tiger fatigues - standard duty uniform; we never wore issue jungle fatigues while at camp.
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 20230426_A421_North Wall29 viewsThe "North Wall" position was actually on the NW perimeter of the camp, 50m to the right and slightly behind the Team House. It was composed of large, house-sized limestone boulders which were an outcrop of Hill 58. There was a small single lane cleft running between the Team House and the North Wall (NW) position; about 25m past the NW was the Medical bunker/dispensary. Visible atop the large central boulder was a sandbagged-roof limestone block bunker. Two U.S. SF personnel manned it every night.
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 20230426_A421_Showers_Nui Cam17 viewsLooking NE from roof of Team House; mountain in distance is Nui Cam; smoke in center is start of a B52 ARCLIGHT bombing mission; structure at lower left is the shower building, right of it are wash basins, behind is the generator shed; lower right is cinder block corrugated roof warehouse; cutting through center from left to right is the camp's main berm - structures in berm are bunkers and CIDG "hooches".
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