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Allen Weamer at home 1967, before our ‘Nam vacation. My friend. He was my hootchmate and door gunner in the 174th AHC. KIA 6/13/68 with entire crew (Dolphin #66-01016) in a mid air collision with an O2 scout "fixed wing". I still miss you today, Allen.
#016 was my aircraft. I was sitting in between the
1st and 2nd Platoon hootches at Duc Pho when I heard it. At first I thought it would be engine failure and
then I heard specifics. Such a tragedy...So young. He was one that I really considered a very close Friend. The whole Platoon was close,
but me and him were real close. I speak to his Mom periodically, even today.





B&W close-up of our pieces of construction. When it rained (these were low ground of course), they would flood.
A soldier could near die in there from heat/humidity and suffocation...but not by enemy mortars. I can only ID the guy in the white sleeveless t-shirt.
That's my buddy Simone from Hawaii.





“Where’s the M60 on this bird?” Me on a forklift at Duc Pho. Notice left arm bandage.
I wore a Seiko watch with wrist bracelet. However, I touched it to the polls on a helicopter battery.
The charge welded the watch into one piece and it had to be cut off my wrist....errr...my wrist was cut off the bracelet.





Khe Sanh siege Tet 1968. Enemy is walking mortar rounds to the C123. I held myself up on
the roof to get this photo. Why the hell would I wanna do that?
