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Michael Chalifoux, following a tour in
Germany, arrived in Di An, South Vietnam in June, 1966 where he was assigned as a
truck driver with the 1st Infantry Division. He ran a number of
convoys and for a period of time transported the bodies of fallen comrades
to the Di An Airstrip for shipment home. "One day," as he describes,
I was loading bodies in my truck to
take to the air strip; we were in Di An. I was told to get all my stuff, I
was going to the field for 3 days. I spent 10 mo 18 days in Quan Loi, as a
detail man. We landed by chopper in the jungle, I was there about 6 days
before I got out of the jungle, and saw the French golf course/landing
strip." It was at a place called
Quan Loi that he and fellow soldiers walked out of the jungle onto a
grass-covered, combination golf course/airstrip on the Terra Rouge
Rubber Plantation. He was to spend the remainder of his tour at Quan
Loi tending to the airstrip fuel dump and handling cargo from late 1966 to
1967. For ease of viewing the forty minute video, recently transferred to DVD, was re-edited into six shorter videos for presentation here via YouTube by John Wavra. Commentary by Mike Chalifoux and John Wavra was recorded via Skype and added to each of the videos. Mike's videos are truly unique and we thank him for sharing them with us.
Michael Chalifoux
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