Supply Convoy Operations to Phuoc Vinh - 1966 Copyright 2014 by Adrian Gravelle and www.quanloi.org
1 The Long Binh Ammunition Depot
2 Loading Conex containers
3 The dangerous Battalion Ammunition Officer, 1LT Andy Andreeko with some of his big bullets
4 ILT Andy Andreeko and SSG George Ponder, battalion Ammunition NCO, supervising the convoy formation
5 ILT Andreeko and driver SP4 McKee ready to leave for Phuoc Vinh
6 1LT Andreeko, battalion ammunition officer, SP4 McKee, driver and 1LT Cecil Gardner, battalion motor officer, conferring before convoy to Phuoc Vinh
7 The air blue with diesel fumes, a convoy heads out at dawn from Long Binh to Phuoc Vinh
8 Convoy leaving Service Battery at dawn for Phuoc Vinh
9 Just outside the Service Battery gate, a truck already in trouble; Captain McElroy, BC, looking on; SSG Harrell Lewis, battery motor sergeant, not happy
10 27th Artillery formed up for the trip from Long Binh to Phuoc Vinh
11 27th Artillery's serial in the much larger convoy to Phuoc Vinh
12 Convoy drivers prepared to defend themselves from attack
13 A tanker truck on the road to Phuoc Vinh
14 Oops. A truck off the road just before a panel bridge
15 Pulling the truck from the ditch
16 Battalion Motor Officer ILT Cecil Gardner accompanies the convoy
17 1LT Cecil Gardner and crew repair a broken truck on the road to Phuoc Vinh
18 The unpaved, laterite-covered narrow road to Phuoc Vinh
19 Approaching the one-lane old French bridge over the Song Be [River] on the road to Phuoc Vinh
20 The convoy arrives at Phuoc Vinh
21 Another photo of the convoy arriving at Phuoc Vinh
22 27th Artillery trucks ready to unload at Phuoc Vinh
23 Unloading 8-inch ammunition beside the air strip at Phuoc Vinh
24 Unloading two 3-round pallets of 8-inch ammunition
25 Borrowed ARVN wrecker unloading construction material
26 Upon return to Long Binh, unloading the refuse of war, 105mm artillery canisters probably from the 1-5th Arty at Phuoc Vinh
27 A driver returns from Phuoc Vinh
28 SP4 John Gjermundson returns to Long Binh
29 Mail call after return to Long Binh
30 Mail call after return to Long Binh
31 Weapons maintenance after return to Long Binh
32 Vehicle maintenance after return to Long Binh
33 SSG Lewis, battery motor sergeant, supervising maintenance after return to Long Binh
34 Quarter ton truck maintenance
35 The maintenance tent and maintenance on a 5-ton truck
36 Service Battery trucks lined up in the motor pool
