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20230426_A421_SSG Ron Owles332 viewsSSG Ron Owles, Weapons Sgt. Typical team uniform of Tiger fatigues; standing in front of chicken coop (team had 100 chickens as a Civic Action program - we ended up eating them; no eggs as the coop was 25 yards from the 105mm/4.2" mortar pits). SSG Owles was career SF - retired as CSM.
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20230426_A421_North Wall330 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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A421 Ba Xoai Original Team Patch 325 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 Buddist Temple325 viewsBuddist temple (Wat) located behind (west of) Hill 58/A421 camp proper. Temple was surrounded by CIDG family "hooches" but within the overall camp perimeter. An NVA sapper penetrated the perimeter and took refuge in the temple; CIDG forces killed him by gun fire on the balcony (white balustrade in photo). He was the only on of his 48 man company to penetrate the perimeter.
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A421 Ba Xoai Original Team Patch (Reverse)312 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_ARCLIGHT309 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_Hill 58 Looking W to E308 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_FDC_Nui Cam306 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 58300 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_Wat 01291 viewsBuddist Temple "Wat" within the Ba Xoai perimeter on the East side of Hill 58 amidst the CIDG family "hooches". An NVA sapper penetrated the perimeter and took refuge in the temple; He was KIA on the temple balcony (white railing) by CIDG troops the morning of 1 April 1970 after a 48 man NVA Sapper company assaulted the camp.
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