Casper aviation platoon Photo Album 16

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PHOTO ALBUMS: These Casper Aviation Platoon photo albums are a powerful collection of more than 1,000 pictures that historically documents our units combat role and involvement during the Vietnam War from early 1965 thru 1971.

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Casper Pilot WO1 Phil Johnson taking a break on the flight line at LZ English 1969

Casper Crew Chief SP5 Dennis "DA" D'Andrea LZ English, Bong Son 1968

Casper Pilot CW2 Larry Griffiths airborne over Bong Son 1970

Casper Pilots CW2 Roger Shuster, Maj Bruce Silvey & WO1 Jim Revoir at LZ English 1969

SP5 Dennis D'Andrea, CW4 Bill "Gramps" Thompson and WO1 Bob Nelson shut down at LZ English 1968

Casper Tech Inspector SSG Bob Jameson in Tuy Hoa 1967

Casper Door Gunner SSG Joe "Woody" Wood holding on to Jay-Bo Willie Casper in An Khe 1968

Casper Pilot CW2 Kirt Butler checking out the mini-gun on one of the Inferno OH-58's LZ English 1970

Unknown Caspers on a convoy headed to An Khe from Tuy Hoa in November 1967

Casper Crew Chief SP5 Zelner Houchin Bien Hoa 1966

SP4 Terry Burke, Door Gunner on the General's bird Casper 571 at LZ English 1970

Casper Mechanic SP5 Bill Denney & Crew Chief SP5 Jerry Salamone on the flight line at LZ English 1969

Casper Crew Chiefs SP5 Bob White & SP5 Jeff Fales on the flight line at LZ English 1969

Casper SP5's: Mechanic Randy Vestal, Door Gunner Gary Braden & Crew Chief Bill Kinney at LZ English 1969

Casper Crew Chiefs Jaime Longoria & Jesse Saldivar posing in front of Inferno 076 LZ English 1969

After some successful horse trading for building materials we started our wooden hooch construction in February 1969

The total construction of the Casper BOQ and BEQ & hooches only took two months to complete

Casper Crew Chief SP5 Jeff Fales supervised all of the construction during this project in 1969

The first BEQ hooch is completed & compared to our old tents, they looked like a Holiday Inn to us

Work quickly begins on the second BEQ hooch in mid-February 1969. Things are looking good

Casper Crew Chief SP5 Ned Costa takes a break & poses in the doorway of his soon to be new room

With the second BEQ all finished, "Ghost Town" takes on a whole new look by the end of February

Phil Johnson, Buddy King, Larry Kahila, George Clouse & Jim Jeffryes new BOQ 1969

Our Pilots new home is completed in March 1969. Check out their porch, "Wow... what a view"

Casper Crew Chief SP5 Jeff Fales stands proudly in front of his newly completed hooch 1969