The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit


Most viewed - Michael P. Kurtgis
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MK-64.jpgDoc & POW199 viewsDoc watching over NVA prisoner.
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MK12.jpgOCS Classmate197 viewsLt Harry Kerestes - a classmate of OCS Class 33-67 of Ft. Sill, Okla. Many Arty OCS grads saw duty in Nam.
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MK290.jpgAttack on The Oasis196 viewsThis is a trip flare tied off with bamboo strips where they tried to come "through the wire" in the Artillery area. The NVA and VC were also experts at defusing Claymore mines.
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MK293.jpgAttack on The Oasis195 viewsA "Duster", twin 40mm guns mounted on a chassis, hit by an RPG on the west side of the perimeter. Crew inside killed.
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MK263.jpgOut of uniform194 viewsGreat to get that uniform off and clean up.
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MK9.jpgHoochmates192 views"Indigenous personnel" do the boot-shining.
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MK-62.jpgWounded NVA192 viewsCaptured NVA; left behind for us to find.
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MK17.jpgHere I Am187 viewsYours truly, Michael P. Kurtgis, "B" Battery, 2/9th, attached to "B" Company, 2/35th Inf Regt, July, 1968.
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MK292.jpgAttack on The Oasis186 viewsPolicing up the explosives in the wire where the three NVA Sapper assassins were killed. This was a diversion away from the main Attack on the Northwest Perimeter corner of the “Oasis”.
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MK307.jpgAttack on The Oasis186 viewsThis was the Hawk radar unit I used to target and shoot Artillery air burst rounds at Russian helicopter targets; also used the Q4 radar.
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MK306.jpgAttack on The Oasis185 viewsOne of the main objectives of the attack was the Hawk Missile Radar Battery (without the missiles) at the NW corner of the “Oasis”. We were using the radar to track Russian helicopters coming across the border to Plei Me.
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MK-57.jpgThe Suspects184 viewsThese are "Yards" who were blacklisted as VC suspects.
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