11th Pathfinder Company, 1st Cavalry Division (Air Mobile)

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11th Pathfinder Company Operations Building, Harmony Church, Fort Benning, GA, June 1965 Air assault airfield somewhere in South Carolina, Exercise Air Assault II Oct 1964 Mechanical Mule unloads from a CV-2 Caribou, Exercise Air Assault II Oct 1964 Company “fun jump”, Lee Drop Zone, Fort Benning Jan 1965 Pathfinders jumping at Air Assault demonstration, Fort Benning Apr 1965 L-R, Gillem; Birmingham; Robinson; Angeli CV-2 delivers supplies by low-level extraction, Air Assault demonstration Fort Benning, Apr 1965 Troops board the USNS Darby, Charleston Naval Base, 14 Aug 1965 Preparing to depart Charleston, 14 Aug 1965 Weapons training aboard the USNS Darby Aug 1965 Going through the Panama Canal Aug 1965 SSG Lopez, assisted by SGT Truss, conducts training aboard the USNS Darby Aug 1965 Qui Nhon Harbor, 14 Sep 1965 Preparing to debark at Qui Nhon, 14 Sep 1965 SGT Max Bennett and SFC Charlie Moore in right foreground Going ashore. Foreground L-R: LT Hoffman, SSG Armstrong, LT Fullerton, and Spofford Enroute to An Khe by CH-47 Chinook, 14 Sep 1965 First look at Hwy 19 and An Khe Pass Initial Pathfinder tent area, An Khe base camp, Sep 1965 Clearing the company area, an Khe base camp, Sep 1965 Number One Airborne Laundry, An Khe, Sep 1965 Main street, An Khe, Sep 1965 Parachute training, An Khe, Sep 1965 The banyan tree on the Golf Course helipad, An Khe base camp Oct 1965 UH-1Ds pickup sling loads at An Khe base camp, Oct 1965 Looking east from An Khe Pass, Oct 1965 Final coordination before liftoff, Operation Shiny Bayonet, Oct 1965 Initial lift outbound, Operation Shiny Bayonet, Oct 1965 VC POW, Operation Shiny Bayonet, Oct 1965 Happy Valley, east of An Khe, Oct 1965 Morning fog in Mang Yang pass between An Khe and Pleiku, Oct 1965 French cemetery in Mang Yang Pass, Oct 1965 Holloway Army Airfield, Pleiku, Oct 1965 Plei Me Special Forces camp, SE of Pleiku, where the battle of the Ia Drang Valley began, Oct 1965 Catecka tea plantation, SW of Pleiku, Oct 1965 SGT Knab supervises air traffic control during opening day at LZ Oasis SW of Pleiku, Oct 1965 LZ prep, Ia Drang Valley, Nov 1965 LZ X-Ray, Ia Drang Valley (picture taken Apr 1966) Enroute to a combat assault, Ia Drang Valley, Nov 1965 Combat assault at LZ Crooks, Ia Drang Valley, Nov 1965 Assault CP of the 2d Bn, 5th Cavalry at LZ Golf Ia Drang Valley, Nov 1965 Last elements of the 2d Bn, 7th Cavalry depart LZ Golf Ia Drang Valley, Nov 1965 CH-47 recovers downed UH-1, Ia Drang Valley Nov 1965 CH-54s on the Golf Course helipad, An Khe base camp Dec1965 Hon Cong Mountain, An Khe base camp, Dec 1965 11th Pathfinder Company area, An Khe base camp Dec 1965 The Red Hawk Inn, An Khe base camp, Dec 1965 Hon Cong Mountain in the background The Bob Hope show, An Khe base camp, Dec 1965 The daily shit -burning detail, An Khe base camp, Dec 1965 “The Eternal Flame” Pathfinder camp at the “Turkey Farm” forward aviation base, near Pleiku Jan 1966 Roadside banana salesgirl, Pleiku, Jan 1966 Pathfinders training with the trooper ladder, Pleiku, Jan 1966 Pathfinder CP at LZ Dog (later LZ English), Bong Son, Jan 1966 First CV-2 lands at the assault airfield at LZ Dog near Bong Son Jan 1966 On long final approach into LZ Byrd SW of Bong Son Operation Masher, Jan 1966 VC Main Force POWs, LZ Byrd, Jan 1966 CPL Ed “Bull” Warren controls a flight of two UH-1s into LZ Mike Operation Masher, Jan 1966 Air assault enroute to an LZ, SW of Bong Son, Jan 1966 MAJ Bruce Crandall (Serpent 6), CO of Co A, 229th Assault Helicopter Bn Operation Masher, Jan 1966. MAJ Bruce P. Crandall will receive the Medal of Honor during a White House ceremony February 26, 2007 for his heroic actions in the Battle of Ia Drang. Close air support, North West of Bong Son, Feb 1966 Hilltop artillery position, NW of Bong Son, Feb 1966 Air assault in progress, NW of Bong Son, Feb 1966 Staging area, SE of Bong Son, Feb 1966 The river south of Bong Son, Feb 1966 Pathfinders enroute to an LZ south of Bong Son Dam Tra Lake and the coast in the background, Feb 1966 An LZ vicinity of Kannack, North East of An Khe, March 1966 Pathfinder CP, Soui Ca Valley, Mar 1966. LT Dick Tifft on the right LZ Cat, Ia Drang Valley, following night air assault by a rifle company and an artillery battery, April 1966 LZ Cat, Ia Drang Valley, April 1966 Resupply of artillery ammunition by airdrop from CV-2 Caribous LZ Cat, Ia Drang Valley, April 1966 Infiltration trail with bamboo tied overhead on the Cambodian border west of Pleiku, April 1966 CH-47 delivers 105MM howitzer into LZ Mustang to support 2-8 Cavalry near the Cambodian border, March 1966 Assault CP, 1st Bn, 8th Cavalry at LZ Mustang on the Cambodian border April 1966 UH1H from Co C, 229^th AHB off-loads troops in a rough LZ near the Cambodian border, March 1966 Staging area, Plei Djereng Special Forces camp west of Pleiku, April 1966 Pathfinder officers, An Khe, May 1966 L-R: LT Mc Knight, LT Blizzard, LT Valcourt, CPT Gillem, LT Sanders Central coast near Tuy Hoa, June 1966 Max Bennett and LT Jackson check downed UH-1D dropped by CH-47 during recovery operation near Tuy Hoa, June 1966