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Service Photo
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Cochise and myself
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Navy Boot Camp Company 304, USNTC San Diego,
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SP4 J. S. Conroy and his I Corps jungle hootch sw of Tam Ky, June 1969
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SP4 J. S. Conroy and his field load on Fire Base Whip, Southern A Shau Valley, I Corps, RVN on 1 May
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Doc Gary Smith, the guy who patched me up and medevaced me in July 1969. Clarksville, Tennessee 1996
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Viet Nam era 501st Infantry Regimental Geronimo patch,
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Combat Infantryman's Badge
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Fighting under the Colors of my forebears, counter-battery fire, June 1969.
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3rd squad rifleman Ralph Vitch (KIA 5-25-69 sw of Tam Ky) and a furry friend
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Extraction from FSB Whip, A Shau Valley near Laos, I Corps, RVN,
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3rd Platoon's Kit Carson Scout Bill, an ex-Viet Cong and a superb soldier. KIA in 1970.
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Johnny S. Conroy on FSB Thor, late April 1969, after being mortared for the first time.
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Gary Joyner, Commo Sgt, A 1/501 1968-69
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PFC Jeff Cahen 1st platoon, A 1/501 1969 during Operation Lamar Plain
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Pineapple patch, southern I Corps, June 1969, SP4 J. S. Conroy, just before I got my M-60.
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Helicopter loading on FSB Whip, I Corps, RVN, May 1969
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American flag flying over Hill 376 after an 8 day battle to take it from the 2nd NVA Division
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First Sergeant Russell, A 1/501 1969
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Fou gas fired on the perimeter of FSB Whip, A Shau Valley near Laotion border, May 1969.
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Sky Crane replacing artillery piece on FSB Thor, April 1969
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FSB Professional, southern I Corps, Operation Lamar Plain, June 1969. A very dangerous place.
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The camera and photographer Conroy are jarred by incoming mortar and recoil less rifle rounds, 6-69.
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Cobra fires rockets at NVA who are firing at us on FSB Whip prior to our extraction, May 1969
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Cobra overflies his handy work (smoke left center) after NVA fired on us.
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A4 Skyhawks bomb the A Shau Valley below FSB Thor, April 1969
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1st Platoon's Harry Harrington (left, with 12 gauge) and unknown 1st platoon sniper with scoped M-14
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Photo op gone bad, a CH47 Chinook stirs a dust storm around me on FB Thor April 1969
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1st Platoon: an unknown soldier and Steve Cruthis at LZ Sally after Lamar Plain.
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SP4 J. S. Conroy on a bunker at FSB Thor, A Shau Valley, I Corps, April 1969, en route to Alpha Co
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Terrain around Hill 376, I Corps 1969 during June 1969
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Cobra with jammed guns lands on FSB Professional
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1st Purple Heart Certificate
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Bunker on FB Professional I was standing on when I got hit in the chest by shrapnel 14 June
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Water trailer and chow line, favorite targets of NVA gunners, FSB Professional, 6-69.
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Reunited with Pineapple Makekou in Atlanta. Last wartime friend I heard from for 26 years
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Orders to hospital and recommendation for promotion to Sgt after I was hit on 9 July 1969
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Mark
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Hill 376, sw of Tam Ky, I Corps.
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Gary Joyner
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Fire Support Base Whip on the Laotian border, south end of the A Shau Valley, I Corps, RVN, 1969
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Gary Joyner, Glenn Funk, Jon Quick -Alpha Company Reunion KOKOMO 2011
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Cookout! 3rd squad (Mark Orr ,Lt Gottschalk, BuddhaTavitas and Ralph Vitch), May 1969
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Johnny S. Conroy and M-60 Kokomo, 2011
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Hutch - Sgt Davis, Frederic Hutchinson KIA on Hill 376, June 1969
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Kokomo 2011 Johnny S. Conroy and Jon Quick
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Sgt Michael O'Leary KIA on Hill 376, I Corps, RVN, June 1969.
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TT Taylor, ammo bearer for 90mm team ,2nd plt when I was a.g. on team on Hill 376.
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Tom Rush and the 82mm we took from NVA mortar squad we killed sw of Tam Ky on 5-25-69.
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Current Photo
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Fellow 3rd platoon members just prior to my arrival, I Corps, Spring 1969.
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Leon Busby and me in an Asian bar
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SP4 J. S. Conroy at Sand Hill, Ft Benning, Ga. 1/58 Inf (Mech) barracks - hell on earth.
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Steve Cruthis chowing down at Tam ky Airport- Op Lamar Plain Day 1
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barracks, J. S. Conroy 1/58 Inf, Ft Benning 1970
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BMSN J. Conroy on starboard forward sponson, aboard USS Coral Sea CVA 43, Gulf of Tonkin, 1965.
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FSB Professional perimeter, a place of death: under seige for 2 months, June 1969
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U S Navy Aviation Ordnanceman Insignia - I was AO3 , Sidewinder missile crew chief in 1967
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Current photo
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U. S. Navy (U. S. S. Coral Sea) Qualified Helmsman certificate, issued March, 1965, Gulf of Tonkin
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rendition of uss coral sea (cva 43)
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1/58th Infantry crest
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Boatswain's Mate Seaman J. Conroy climbing the ropes on the Coral Sea, Gulf of Tonkin, 1965
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In Service
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