New Maps coming soon!!

I have been working with Aryln Perky on some new maps that cover a few of the AO's we were in and the events that took place. It's quite a bit of work compiling and notating the maps so I can post them. Hopefully we should have something up by summer!

Keep your eyes open!

Red Tails has Magalia Ties

Red Tails has Magalia Ties

Cambodia Invasion Video

I received an email last night (10-23-10) from Kevin Perrier (E-Recon 2/7 Cav & B-2/5 Cav) advising me that he had found video of our unit D company 1st Bn 8th Cav, 1st Cav Div during our time in Cambodia, on the National Archives website. I was able to locate them, downloaded and put it on YouTube. Since the original video was a little over 22 minutes long I had to split it in two so I could get it on YouTube. This allows you to view them without having to wait for it to download and also keeps me from having to load a huge file on to my webserver.

Here's a link to the site: http://www.webewebbiers.com/vietnam/Cambodia%20Video/webpage/Cambodia%20Video.htm

Something new

I added a new feature to the main page of the website. If you scroll down to the very bottom of the page you will find a map with small push pins on it. Each pin represents a location of a person that recently visited the website. If you click on the map it will take you to a page that shows the names of the locations. It is about a day off so all of the "pin" sites don't match up with the locations, but I think it is still kind of neat.

Too Long!

Sorry, I haven't been keeping up lately!

Ed Nored is in Prague helping with technical details for a new movie coming out this year. The movie is being produced by George Lucas (Star Wars & American Grafitti) called "Red Tails". It's the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Looking forward to seeing photos and hearing the stories when he get's back.

New Photos from Arlyn Perky

Received some new photos from Arlyn Perky this week. I have added them to the "ED NORED Story w/Photos section pages 3 and 4.

New Photos

Added a number of new photos and comments from Arlyn Perkey to pages 3 and 4 in the "Ed Nored" section.

Take a look.

Arlyn Perkey

Received new comments for the October, November and December time frames from Arlyn Perkey. Added his email address to the roster and comments to "Ed Nored Story & Photos" section.

Tour of Duty

Received the following poem from Pat Dooley D 1/8 1st Cav Oct.1967 to Oct.1968:

TOUR OF DUTY
BY PATRICK DOOLEY
COMPANY D 1/8 1ST AIR CAVALRY

It started with a letter that one fateful day
Of Greetings from the U.S. of A

Our fathers and uncles had gone before
And served with honor in the great World War

It was our turn to answer our Nation’s call
Little knowing how many names would end up on the Wall

The training was basic then on to advanced
From shooting a rifle to blousing your pants

A month with your families then off to the War
To take that airplane to that far distant shore

Not knowing your future with the new family found
The smells, the excitement, the strange new sounds

We walked through the villages on narrow dirt trails
And ran through the rice paddies when sniper bullets sailed

We slept in the jungle on cold rainy nights
Under poncho tents without any lights

We flew by choppers into many landing zones
Seven in a Huey with outcomes unknown

At the end of our tour we flew back to the Place
No warm reception some got spit in their face

As I remember the War from a different time and place
The suffering the anguish the toll to my heart
Brings a tear down my worn out face

Cool Pix

Thanks to Ed Griffith for sharing this link:

"Cool Pixs"

http://www.tom-phillips.info/images/cool.pics.military.3.htm

Billy Joel song: "Goodnight Saigon"

I'm posting a YouTube link to a video of Billy Joel performing the song: "Goodnight Saigon".

YouTube link

Ed Nored found this on e-Bay. Not sure why he hasn't bought it yet!



$24,995 starting bid

Huey for sale!

"Hanoi Jane" in Iraq

Thought this was neat!

Oldies are back!

Thought you might enjoy this.....

Growing up in SoCal in the 50's and 60's we had two AM radio stations in San Bernardino that competed with each other for listeners. As most things they went away back in the early 70's when FM kicked in. Not sure about your area but even the "oldies" stations now are playing stuff from the 80's and 90's that well, just aren't old!!!!

Anyway. I stumbled across this a few weeks ago and thought you might enjoy it as the time table fits and kind of goes with the cars.......

KFXM was one of the 2 radio stations (KMEN was the other). Somebody bought up all of the records from KFXM and put this up on the internet. (they have a small transmitter also) Love the fact that they keep the commercials to a minimum!.

You will need a "high speed" connection to stream it (I assume you have one...)

You'll hear stuff you haven't heard in years!!!!

Click on the 'VU-Meter' in the middle of the page and it will stream to Widows Media. Let me know what you think!
http://www.kfxm.com/

Gordon

Memorial Day 2008

Thanks for the following link sent by Kevin Mynderup (C 1/8 1st Cav 1968).

Fellow Veterans

I found this page, I Am Old Glory Flag Of United States, on a very nice site. Check it out at, http://www.lovethissite.com/oldglory/

Remember our fallen Veteran friends on this Memorial Day.

Honor and Courage
Kevan

Rope Trick

Wifey wanted me to blog this.....

Not sure why.....

WWII planes at local airport

These guys are at our local airport for the next few days. I'm planning on getting over to see them!

The B-24 is the last flying B-24 in the world so this is something special!

Click on the link below to see the video.

Video

The French Artillary in Afghanistan

Thanks to Ed Griffith (our Artillary FO in Vietnam) for forwarding this along:

WARRIORS The film

Thanks to John Butler for forwarding this along:


WARRIORS... in their own words




We have always had warriors, from as far back in history as one can go — warriors are timeless.

Warriors have a moral code and are not simply trained killers (as they are all too frequently portrayed).

If we did not have warriors, we would undoubtedly be speaking another language, German, Japanese, Chinese, or Russian.

Warriors are born, they are not created. Certainly they are trained, but to be a warrior is a calling.

We should be forever grateful to our warriors and to their families who are all so courageous.

We should honor our warriors. Warriors are NOT, as they are commonly portrayed, victims with no where else to go but the military.

This project will show people what intelligent, honorable, and brave people we have standing in the way of the free world’s demise.

Link to website: www.warriorsthefilm.com/Movie.html

Remembering Leonard Bauer

April 18th, 1970 Vietnam:

Photo of Leonard Bauer (KIA April 18th 1970)



(Gordon Swenson)
This was a bad day. We were following a trail and our point man called back to say that he found a machine gun setting in the middle of the trail with no one around it. Just as they were calling this in he heard voices and saw some enemy individuals walking down the trail towards the machine gun. One of them had a AK47 slung over his shoulder. They never saw our guy. The point man opened up with his M16 and killed two of them. Turns out there were about 7 or 8 more of them just around the corner. Suddenly all hell broke loose. I got on the radio and called for air support. About then we got a call on the radio that one of our guys had gotten killed. I called for a Tactical air strike with Napalm. A few minutes later the jets showed up and began dropping the napalm. I found that if anything could stop a fire fight, Napalm would. Sure enough the shooting stopped. Our casualty was Leonard Bauer. I helped carry him to the helicopter to be flown out. I can still remember the boots sticking out of the poncho liner that was covering him and his dog tags attached to the shoe laces. (This was common practice to keep the dog tags from rattling together like they would if you wore them around your neck.)

(Ed Nored) On this day 3rd platoon had point for the company. My squad was point. For the life of me I cannot remember who my point man was this day. I think it was Mike Mahr, but am not sure. We left the night lo and moved a pretty good distance. At least an hour. I remember we were looking for a stream or "blue line" on the map. I was walking 3rd man back when I could see the point man walking into a clearing. He had gone a few yards into it when I quietly called him back and told him to stay in the tree line and move to the right of the clearing. A minute or so passed and walked up a small rise in the terrain and as it leveled off walked right into a small somewhat level area and found 2 bunkers. (I know this is a silly game to play. But if we had showed up 8 - 10 minutes later. My point man would have come up that little 15 foot rise and come face to face with 1 to 3 gooks less than 20 feet away.) One bunker was old and the roof had collapsed on it. There was a new one built on the left. Jay Selby and myself checked out the new one. I remember Jay went in one end and me the other. This wasn't the smartest thing to do. If someone had been in there Jay and I would have been firing at each other. What we found was a very clean fully packed NVA backpack and next to it was a light machine gun. The type with the round drum on top. The rest of 3rd platoon was being spread out. "Gator" and Bill Pease of 2nd platoon had taken positions in the collapsed bunker. As I exited I noticed the bunker had a clean shot into the clearing we had previously avoided. Then "Gator" opened up with his M-14 when he spotted 3 NVA soldiers coming through the bush about 40 - 50 feet away. Then Bill Pease opened fire with the "60". One brave NVA held his ground and returned fire what seemed to be about 15 - 20 minutes. Measuring time in such circumstances is difficult. Out front to the left were Jim Watradowski and Leonard Bauer of "Ketch's" squad exchanging fire with the lone NVA. I believe is was Jim who yelled Leonard was hit and Doc Kloss ran crouched over with his aid bag to where Leonard was lying. As it turned out there was nothing he could do for Leonard despite Docs attempt to resuscitate him. I remember seeing a very clean bullet hole, with no blood, on the top, back of his left shoulder. The shooting ended. A napalm strike was made. Leonard was picked up and began his trip home. We moved into a night location and just as it was getting dark someone told me Cpt Perkins wanted to see me and I walked over to the CP and he had a piece of paper and pencil in hand and said turn around and said something to the effect that "I had got him 2 gooks" as he placed the paper on my back and signed my E-5 promotion. I had very mixed feelings about my promotion being tied to the days events. But one thing for sure. The new guys got quieter.