1968 was the worst and bloodiest year of the Vietnam War. The biased liberal news media misreported and misinterpreted the 1968 Tet Offensive as being an overwhelming success for the Communist forces and a decided defeat for the US Forces. Nothing could be further from the truth. Despite initial victories by the Communists forces, the Tet Offensive resulted in a major defeat for General Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) designer of the Tet Offensive. Militarily, the Tet Offensive was a total defeat of the Communist forces on all fronts. It resulted in the death of some 45,000 NVA troops and the complete, if not total

destruction of the Viet Cong elements in South Vietnam. The Organization of the Viet Cong Units in the South never recovered. The Tet Offensive succeeded on only one front and that was the US News front and the anti-war political arena. This was another example in the Vietnam War of an inaccuracy becoming the perceived truth. However, inaccurately reported, the News Media made the three 1968 Tet Offensives famous.

~ US Army Home Page

101st Reward Leaflet, front and back.

Issued 101st Vietnam Death Cards, courtesy of Troopers from the 187th Inf. and the Strike Force Widow Makers.

     

NVA 101st Airborne Defection Cards.



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Bugle Charge	Battle	Battle
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Machine Gun	M-203 Gernade Launcher	Anti-Aircraft Gun
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101st Area Operation Base Maps and Ashau Valley

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PAGE	TOP BOTTOM	DESCRIPTION
1	<	Vietnam Photo Album Cover 101st Airborne Div
		Tet VC Nongraduating Class of 1968
2	<	326 troopers on plane in route to Vietnam.
		Vietnam Unit Battle Map
		Rifle Range at Phuoc Vinh with 2 of my Buddies Stanley Lush & Jackie Wilford
3	<	101st P Training at Bien Hoa, AFB
		Downtown Phuoc Vinh
		Aerial view of Phuoc Vinh
4	<	Trooper Shot in the Leg by Sniper, Phuoc Vinh
		Phuoc Vinh Base Service Club
		SP4 John O'Gains and I at Phuoc Vinh Airfield
5	<	Hueys taking off from Phuoc Vinh
		Preparing to board planes at Phuoc Vinh for demo mission
		Boarding planes heading for demo mission in Cu Chi area
6	<	Barracks are at Cu Chi Base Camp, choppers spraying tear gas on VC Tunnels in background
		Convoy outside Trang Bang
		Fire Fight at Trang Bang
7	<	Fire Base Stewart near the Hobo Woods
		155 Howitzer, Fire Base Stewart
		Fire Base Stewart in Vietnamese Cemetary
8	<	My hootch for 30 days @ Fire Base Shafter
		Fire Base Shafter outside the Cu Chi area- air strike in background
9	<	Fire Base Shafter under fire
		Operation Spearhead Zang Rang 3, 101st-vs-a Battalion of NVA, we won- white dots are bomb craters
10	<	Searching NVA Hootch at Zang Rang 3, outside Cu Chi
		Searching suspected NVA Hootch -- Zang Rang 3
11	<	Burning NVA Hootch - Zang Rang 3
		Captured SKS NVA Assault Rifle -- Zang Rang 3
12	<	Paratrooper Jump School--Ton Sun Nhut, AFB
		Saigon Slums
13	<	Saigon Movie Theatre
		Famous South Vietnamese Soldier Statue - Saigon
14	<	Commanding General Melvin Zais' Hooch - Camp Eagle
		HHC, 326 Combat Engineer Battalion, Camp Eagle
15	<	1968, X-Mas celebration, Camp Eagle
		326 Battle Bunkers, Camp Eagle
16	<	326 Battle Bunkers, Camp Eagle
		1969 New Years Eve bunker guards, Camp Eagle
17	<	On patrol outside Camp Eagle
		On patrol outside Camp Eagle
		Interrogating suspected VC
18	<	Digging up an unexploded Mortar Round with my LT.
		326 Mini Dozer hit by NVA RPG Round, Ashau Valley
19	<	Tanks at Camp Eagle
		Shot down Huey, Camp Eagle
20	<	Fire Base Los Banos, near Da Nang
		40mm Duster at Los Banos
21	<	Fire Base T-Bone, Ashau Valley
		Aerial view of Fire Base T-Bone
		Combat Repelling at T-Bone
22	<	105mm Howitzers firing at Charlie, Fire Base T-Bone
		Captured NVA weapons, Fire Base T-Bone
		My Mini Dozer at Fire Base T-Bone
23	<	Fire Base Rakkasan (AKA: The Rock) - Ashau Valley
		C4 Plastic Explosives clearing Rakkasan trees
24	<	Under Attack - Fire Base Whip, Ashau Valley
25	<	Fire Base Whip -- center of hilltop
		Transporting my Mini Dozer to Fire Base Whip
25.5	<	Fire Base Whip -- 4 Photos Courtesy of:
		1LT Peter R. Engelhardt, HHQ, 2/101st Abn Div, PSYOPS Officer (1968-69)
26	<	Bringing in Artillary support -- Fire Base Whip
		Clearing Fire Base Whip in the fog
		Eating WWII C-Rations, still good -- Fire Base Whip
27	<	Waving in Medivac Chopper, March 6, 1969 ~ Carl Brazel, RTO ~ Ronald Taterman, Wounded ~ James Frawly, Medic 2nd/501 Inf, Fire Base Whip
		Evacuating Ronald Taterman from Fire Base Whip
		Chinook evacuating shot down chopper - Fire Base Whip
28	<	Shot down Cobra, - Fire Base Whip
		Shot down Cobra, crashed on gas blivet (between skids) - Fire Base Whip
29	<	Flying to Fire Base Fury, Ashau Valley
		Aerial Shot of Fire Base Fury
		Crashed Huey Helicopter, (lower left corner) Fire Base Fury
30	<	My Mini Dozer after a chopper pilot dropped it from over 1000 feet, Camp Eagle
		Captured NVA Trucks from Ashau Valley
31	<	Captured NVA Mortars from Ashau Valley
		Captured NVA Artillary from Ashau Valley
32	<	Captured new NVA SKS Rifles from Ashau Valley
		Spraying Agent Orange on Me (Operation Ranch Hand)
33	<	David Hindel with M79 Thumper
		David Hindel, Fire Base Helen 68' ~ Between a rock and a hard place
		Co. B, 3rd Ptl, 326 Engineers, Camp Evans 69'
34	<	175MM in full recoil at FB Spanky II, fired by Augie, Nestleroad & Pyle, C/1/83 FA. photo submitted by VN Vet SP5 Richard Areskog, 27th Engineers.
		Cobra-Camp Eagle
		Cobra-Camp Eagle
		Army Truck hits VC Land Mine, Hue
35	<	Aerial View of Hue
		Imperial Citadel, Hue
		Battle City, Hue
		South Vietnamese Security Forces, Hue
36	<	Short Timers on landing craft heading for Eagle Beach for going away party
		After party on Eagle Beach
		Screaming Eagles going home bus
		Eagle Bus, 90th Replacement Battalion
		My Freedom Bird at the LA Airport
37	<	S. Vietnamese Rangers
		Riding Chopper Shotgun
38	<	Hanoi Jane Target (Vietnam Vets are not Fonda Jane)
39	<	To Those who Gave All
40	<	Chopper Assault
		Screaming Eagles Banner
41	<	Vietnam Tour 365 Medal
		AK47 Night Fire
42	<	Receiving the Bronze Star Medal
		My Unit Citation Medal Ribbons on Uniform
		My Military Medal Ribbons on Uniform
PATCHES / MISC
43	<	101st Airborne Patch
		Screaming Chicken Eagle
		Death From Above Patch
44	<	Tet 69 Counteroffensive Collage
		Agent Orange Poster
		101st Airborne souvenir from Hue
		Captured VC flag from Hue
45	<	101st Airborne Patch
		Vietnam-If you haven't been there, then shut your mouth Patch
46	<	101st Winged Warriors Patch
		1968 TET Offensive Survivor Patch
47	<	1968 TET Offensive Silver Anniversary Patch
		Military Police-Kick Ass and Take Names Patch
48	<	US Army Military Police Patch
		Military Police Investigator Badge & Patch
		US Army Criminal Investigation Command Badge & Patch

Vietnam Veteran Annual Reunion It's been 35+ years since I departed Vietnam and I would like to get in touch with some of my former unit members from the 326th Combat Engineer Bn. If you recognize yourself or anybody in my photographs please email me. For the last eight years I have traveled to the Annual Vietnam Veterans Reunion in Melbourne, Florida, in hopes to locate former unit members, but to date I have only located about a dozen 326ers and only one that I actually knew from Vietnam. I guess we have all aged some and look a little different now from the old days. If you have never been to a Vietnam Vet Reunion before, I urge you to attend as its good medicine for your heart and soul. We all aren't getting any younger and some of our Brothers that survived Vietnam have since passed on after returning home. I had mixed emotions about attending my first reunion and I am glad that I didn't let those emotions stop me from going. There's nothing like seeing your old buddies that you served with in Vietnam and honoring those who did not make it. The Melbourne Vietnam Vets Reunion is held every April and the 101st Airborne Division is well represented there along with Vets from all Branches of the US Military traveling from all over the United States to meet their old Brothers in arms. I will attend the Melbourne reunion this April 24-27, 2008, for the opening ceremonies. I hope to see you all there. Click here to obtain further information on this or next year's Melbourne Vietnam Vets Reunion, which is the largest Vet Reunion in the United States. Alot of healing is delivered there where you are among your Brothers who understand. ~ Why Vietnam Veterans Gather ~ I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or look at old pictures. Not to laugh or weep. Comrades gather because they long to be with the men who once acted their best, men who suffered and sacrificed, who were stripped raw, right down to their humanity. I did not pick these men. They were delivered by fate and the US Army. But I know them in a way I know no other men. I have never given anyone such trust. They were willing to guard something more precious than my life. They would have carried my reputation, the memory of me. It was part of the bargain we all made, the reason we were so willing to die for one another. I cannot say where we are headed. Ours are not perfect friendships; those are the province of legend and myth. A few of my comrades drift far from me now, sending back only occasional word. I know that one day even these could fall to silence. Some of the men will stay close, a couple perhaps, always at hand. As long as I have memory, I will think of them all, every day. I am sure that when I leave this world, my last thought will be of my Family and my Comrades. Author Unknown

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101st Airborne Screaming Eagles Sapper 326 Combat Engineer Website is a flashback of my Vietnam Sapper Tour of Duty in 1968 and 1969, during the Tet Offensive (TET 68) and Tet Counter Offensive. Deployed to Fire Bases, Cities and Camps such as Camp Eagle Vietnam, Camp Evans Vietnam, Ashau Valley Vietnam or properly spelled, A Shau Valley Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh Trail Vietnam, Phu Bai Vietnam, Hue Vietnam, Cu Chi Vietnam, Fire Base Rakkasan Vietnam, Fire Base Fury Vietnam, Fire Base Whip Vietnam, Trang Bang Vietnam, Bien Hoa Air Force Base Vietnam, Long Bien Vietnam, Tan Son Nhut Air Force Base Vietnam, Saigon Vietnam, Vung Tau Vietnam, China Beach Vietnam, Fire Base Eagles Nest Vietnam, Fire Base Georgia Vietnam, Fire Base Berchtesgaden Vietnam, Fire Base Veghel Vietnam, Fire Base Bastogne Vietnam, Fire Base T-Bone Vietnam, Fire Base Phuoc Vinh Vietnam, Fire Base Stewart Vietnam, Hobo Woods Vietnam, Fire Base Shafter Vietnam, Fire Base Los Banos Vietnam, 90th Replacement Battalion Vietnam and Eagle Beach Vietnam. As a 101st Airborne Screaming Eagle Sapper 326 Combat Engineer in Vietnam, I used Demolitions and my Mini Dozer to clear the way for the Fire Support Bases (FSB) in Vietnam. Bob Griffin, 101st Airborne Screaming Eagle Sapper 326 Combat Engineer, Vietnam Veteran.

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