The Mighty Ninth

Strive To Reach The Summit


Most viewed - Michael P. Kurtgis
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MK12.jpgOCS Classmate197 viewsLt Harry Kerestes - a classmate of OCS Class 33-67 of Ft. Sill, Okla. Many Arty OCS grads saw duty in Nam.
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MK-64.jpgDoc & POW197 viewsDoc watching over NVA prisoner.
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MK290.jpgAttack on The Oasis192 viewsThis is a trip flare tied off with bamboo strips where they tried to come "through the wire" in the Artillery area. The NVA and VC were also experts at defusing Claymore mines.
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MK263.jpgOut of uniform192 viewsGreat to get that uniform off and clean up.
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MK9.jpgHoochmates191 views"Indigenous personnel" do the boot-shining.
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MK293.jpgAttack on The Oasis191 viewsA "Duster", twin 40mm guns mounted on a chassis, hit by an RPG on the west side of the perimeter. Crew inside killed.
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MK-62.jpgWounded NVA190 viewsCaptured NVA; left behind for us to find.
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MK17.jpgHere I Am186 viewsYours truly, Michael P. Kurtgis, "B" Battery, 2/9th, attached to "B" Company, 2/35th Inf Regt, July, 1968.
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MK292.jpgAttack on The Oasis183 viewsPolicing up the explosives in the wire where the three NVA Sapper assassins were killed. This was a diversion away from the main Attack on the Northwest Perimeter corner of the “Oasis”.
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MK306.jpgAttack on The Oasis182 viewsOne of the main objectives of the attack was the Hawk Missile Radar Battery (without the missiles) at the NW corner of the “Oasis”. We were using the radar to track Russian helicopters coming across the border to Plei Me.
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MK307.jpgAttack on The Oasis182 viewsThis was the Hawk radar unit I used to target and shoot Artillery air burst rounds at Russian helicopter targets; also used the Q4 radar.
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MK-57.jpgThe Suspects182 viewsThese are "Yards" who were blacklisted as VC suspects.
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