Tink, Hoskins &
Cpl Smitty, Okinawa NTA (Photo
courtesy of Dick Weber)
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Ologapo, Phillipines, Dick Weber, Steve Kittle, unknown Marine, Sgt.
Simpler and Tink (Photo
courtesy of Dick Weber)
Richardson
"Time out
for chow"
Carpenter
"(Alias 'Big Arnold') always is HAPPY"
Dufus Leonard
"from Intellectual Boston"
L/CPL J.P. Fields CPL.
Norman A. Hunter
unknown Marine
Squad Leader Cpl. Smitty, unknown
Marine, Tink, Dick Weber, Sgt. Simpler.
(Photo courtesy of Dick Weber)
PFC Freddy J. Atwood
CPL. Hosford CPL.
Simon Jones
L/CPL Carl M.
Jackson
Jeffers, Porter, and McKee
PFC Kupervich, PVT
Garcia
"Wpns. PLT sitting
1st PLT. standing 3rd PLT. assaulting
hill."
L/CPL. Keigney
Jeffers "sitting
after problem"
Norrington from Chicago
"This is at the end of problem waiting for helicopters to
pick us up."
PFC Thomas D.
Airo
CPL. Hosford
Smitty and Hauskens
"After we finally came out of the swamps & rejoined
company. We were lost for almost 24 hrs. thanks to brilliant
leadership."
Mariscal, Johnson, and
McKee "Disgusted & tired."
"ATTITUDE CHECK!
Answer Denny gave."
"Machine gun
section."
"Some of the
sergeants."
"Mama-sans
trying to sell sodas."
"People too tired to move. Mama-san
in back selling soda, beer."
"In landing
zone."
"1st
PLT. running tactics."
Ussery, Wallace, SGT.
Lebeau "1st PLT. in background."
"Fuji, these are a
few of the rounds we had."
"Going back."
Denny "Aiming
in."
Dave Coker "On
radio."
The men of WPNS Platoon, front row: Thomas
Presby, Tink. Second row: Joe Dodson, Dick Weber, Gary Williams,
Jerry Richardson
(Photo courtesy of Dick Weber)
Smitty
"Standing." Norrington "Bore sighting Smitty's
rocket."
Gary Williams
"Taken when he wasn't aware."
Johnson "Talking
to Mama-san."
Norrington
"Falling asleep from exhaustion we went thru rice paddies
and swamps all night."
"That's me
on the firing line", Mt. Fuji, Japan
"2nd
PLT. in ambush. Japs on hill picking up rounds."
2nd
Plt.
after ambush
2nd
PLT "after we ambushed them"
3rd Plt .
assaulting hill
Lawrence Denny, Dick Weber and
Tink in Okinawa
(Photo courtesy of Dick Weber)
"Radio Shack"
"Landing"
12 April 66,
Northington (stand) Wathen (2nd Sqd Ldr), End of
problem
Presby, " He wants to get
a pair of gooks ears"
Colonel with Lt.
Kopfler at C.P.
Eating breakfast at
noon, some would rather sleep
Hauskens, Smitty &
Norrington in position waiting to go up hill 150
