Karl Sherck's Alpha Btry 6/27th Artillery Photos

Quan Loi 1967-68
Copyright 2105 by Karl Sherck and www.quanloi.org

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1 Barney, Jerry Clay, Karl Sherck	2 Pete Farris with Caesar the monkey	3 Gene Mikovilje at the lanyard	4 Alpha Battery Motor pool guys with Hooch Maid in back
5 L-R Unknown soldier, Gene Mikovilje, Sgt.Tweat, and front soldier Unknown	6 Unknown Soldier showing how it is done.	7 It takes two Montagnards for one American (Unknown)	8 Karl Sherck and a Montagnard.
9 John (Vietnamese worker) on the Iron Coffin.	10 John (Vietnamese worker)	11 John (Vietnamese worker) taking a break.	12 L-R Unknown Soldier, Jerry Clay, Unknown Soldier, Barney, Kezzel, Unknown Soldier & Unknown Soldier Let us know if you know any of the unknown soldier's names.
13 L- R Top Unknown Soldier, Unknown Soldier, Jerry Clay, bottom row all Unknown Soldiers. Do you know the Unknown Soldier's names?	14 Look at Jerry Clay with mud on his boots.	15 Jerry Clay going to his tent.	16 Barney, Karl Sherck, Unknown
17 Jerry Clay at the Piss Tube Latrine .	18 Karl in the driver seat of the PC.	19 Karl behind the 50 cal. on the PC.	20 Karl, Pete Farris in front of the gun section bunker.
21 Karl on top of the gun section bunker	22 Unknown Soldier on top of the gun section bunker.	23 Karl in bunker doorway.	24 In the process of rebuilding #2 bunker.
25 L-R Karl Sherck, Unknown Soldier and Jerry Clay	26 Karl Sherck	27 Mortars did a job on the trucks - Tet - January 30, 1968	28 Truck in motor pool. Tet - January 30, 1968
29 Mortars did a job on the trucks. Tet - January 30, 1968	30 Several trucks were hit that night in the motor pool.	31 Pete Farris & Karl Sherck in ammo bunker.	32 Pete & Karl waiting for fire mission.
33 Stud Baker, Sgt. Tweat, Pete Farris on gun.	34 Fire Mission.	35 8” gun brings smoke.	36 Pete Farris ready to fire the cannon.
37 Karl on the Iron Coffin.	38 Looking at the 8” gun from the rear.	39 L-R Jerry Clay, Kezzel, Unknown Soldier and Ron Eith	40 Karl S. night off the gun. They got to wear civies when off duty?
41 Karl S. by the tent. These tents were soon to be replaced with underground personnel sleeping bunkers when one night they were hit with rockets with resulting casualties.	42 The tents where we stayed and slept in on our nights off.	43 PC	44 Pete Farris wiping down a 175 gun tube.
45 175mm gun fire mission.	46 Tank on the way from An Loc,	47 Guard tower outside of French swimming pool.	48 Montangnard women filing sand bags.
49 Vietnamese workers being dropped off in An Loc,	50 Stopped at Montagnard Village to drop off workers	51 Montagnards going home after working all day at Alpha Battery.	52 Hooch Maids.
53 We were supposed to have an American show - Look what we got. The 6 Uglies!	54 Rebuilding the bunkers at Quan Loi.	55 Another shot of rebuilding the bunkers.	56 Our tents and a view of our perimeter.
57 Village on the way to An Loc.	58 Not sure what this was - on the way to An Loc.	59 Two of the Vietnamese Workers.	60 Passing School kids along the way to An Loc.
61 An Loc Locals.	62 Sargent (who? - Can someone tell us?)	63 Rear - L-R Gene Mikovilje, Unknown Soldier, Unknown Soldier, front row Craig Belsir	64 Unidentified Soldiers - Lost in Memory. Do you know names?
65 Unidentified Soldiers - Lost in Memory. Do you know names?	66 Unidentified Soldier - Lost in Memory. Do you know names?	67 Night before Pete Farris left for home	68 Same as Previous Shot, but rotated.