INDEX OF UNEDITED PHOTOS
Pat "Juaquin" Eastes
........................59 Photos.................
PE-1 - Heavy Scout Gunship 444 in the Corral at Cu Chi
PE-2 - Hog 513
PE-3
PE-4 - OH-23G Raven landing in a forward area
PE-5 - Juaquin and mascot in the Hootch
PE-6 - Mark Schmidt Heavy Scouts Gun Team Leader
PE-7 - John Kelly lounging near the trench bunkers in the company area.
PE-8 - John Kelly lounging near the trench bunkers in the company area.
PE-9 - Juaquin lounging near the trench bunkers in the company area.
PE-10 - Costanza, First SGT, I think (not on roster yet)
PE-11- Mike Siegel examining enemy 51 cal machine gun
PE-12 - WO1 Bill Gold Slick Pilot
PE-13 - WO1 Bill Gold Slick Pilot
PE-14 - John Kelly with the 51 cal
PE-15 - Gun sight on the 51 cal
PE-16 - Eastes holding a dug up, exploded 122 in Corral, morning of Tet 68
PE-17 - Award Ceremony in Company Area. John Kelly receiving award. Charlie Johnson on his right.
PE-18 - Panama City weekend during flight school
PE-19 - Bob Taylor on the flight line
PE-20 - Bob Taylor and his historic Flight Helmet.
PE-21 - Bob Taylor
PE-22 - Bruce Powell before he learned how to trim his moustache
PE-23 - Jeffery "Doc" Halliday Gun Pilot
PE-24 - John Kelly, Bixby (Kelly's FO buddy from another unit), and Slick the wonder dog
PE-25
PE-26 - Unkown, Bob Taylor, and Richard Honyoust - Company Area
PE-27 - Stiles (?)
PE-28 - WO Deryl Gunn
PE-29 - Claudine, hootch dog
PE-30 - Larry Patterson slick pilot
PE-31 - Tom Meeks Gun Pilot
PE-32 - Village outside the wire near rearm pit
PE-33 - WO Russ Mattison
PE-34 - Juaquin
PE-35 - Siegel and Halliday
PE-36 - Juaquin viewing captured weapons
PE-37 - Juaquin
PE-38 - Me pulling fire guard in Basic, Ft. Polk
PE-39 - Juaquin
PE-40 - Juaquin with Willi Williams VC Flag, before Willi got all the signatures on it.
PE-41 - Night miniguns in a fire fight on the perimeter
PE-42 - Night miniguns in a fire fight on the perimeter
PE-43 - Christmas Card 1967
PE-44 - Charred wreckage that used to be 468, Charlie Model gunship, where Schmidt, Anderson, Henson and Barsch were killed in December 1967
PE-45 - AK-47 round through the greenhouse (roof over pilot's head). Round narrowly missed the pilot in the right seat. Could have been me. Can't remember - Jauquin
PE-46 - One of the new AH-1G Cobra Gunships
PE-47 - AH-1G Cobra Back seat instrument panel.
PE-48 - Bruce Powell and Pat Bilyk
PE-49 - Eastes and Halliday on standby at Dau Tieng. Maybe Jones on the lower right
PE-50 - Cobra nose turret
PE-51 - Three "strac" troops - (l to r) Pat Eastes, CPT John Whitehead (Slick Platoon Leader at the time), and Mike Siegel, a slick driver but a gunship pilot at heart.
PE-52 - Hobo Woods - Look at left center of photo and you might see smoke rising from a trail where we had just put in some rockets
PE-53 - Hog Gunship
PE-54 - TJ Lange, Crew Chief working on his gunship 462. Yellow patches are for bullet holes
PE-55 - Mark Schmidt
PE-56 - Mike Galloway and crew rearming rockets in their Hog in the rearm pit. Hog 513
PE-57 - Rockets enroute - taken during a testfire or training run in AO Erp, just Southeast of Cu Chi
PE-58 - Mike Siegel and John Kelly on or about the day of Tet 68. They look like they were rode hard and put up wet, and they had been. I am pretty sure that Siegel had been shot down that day.
PE-59 - Mike Siegel's Slick