Hysterical Journey to Historic Places 20 TON EUCLID DUMP

I liked driving that yellow truck but was allowed to do so after I backed it into and wrecked a conveyor belt. The tower in the background was our main guard bunker where we set up the .50 caliber machine gun that none of us knew how to fire. Xom Tam was originally a train station built by the French. Our guard tower was once a water tank for steam locomotives.

Hysterical Journey to Historic Places

September 7th 2013
THERE’S A SOLDIER IN A HUT…… With a bullet up his butt, Take it out, Take it out, Like a good boy scout. We were all given a month’s leave at home before reporting to Oakland Army Base for processing to overseas duty. For some of us it would be the last time we ever saw our families. During that month the siege at Khe Sahn took a lively turn ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Dong Nai » Bien Hoa

The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more

8th May 2017

Richard Lindquist
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Dump trucks and machinegun tower
I renmember when the Euclids came in and we had to train drivers and mechanics up on them. I forget if we had three or four of the dump trucks. Were you there when the VC put an RPG through the water tanks on the shower thinking it was the MG tower?

1st August 2017

DoubleBarreledBob
Frank S. Oliver

Water tower
I do not remember the water tower ever being hit by an rpg.

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