the Marines of HMM-165
1966
page 2
  East of Chu Lai, September 1966 
  
Quang Ngi, RVN, September 1966
  Before HMM-165's helicopters and personnel fully deployed to Vietnam, the Squadron's "advanced group" were put to work in crewing H-34s.
To the right is a load of walking wounded.  Above, a convoy snaking through "downtown" Quang Ngi.  The H34s were providing aerial cover.
 - photo courtesy of Rich Roth
- photo courtesy of Rich Roth
Flying as the port-side gunner on a Purple Fox 34D, Rick Roth, on HMM-165's 'advance crew,' checks out battle damage from the last mission.
- photo courtesy of Rick Roth
 
 
Over I Corps, RVN, 1966
A HMM-165's crew/chiefs, Rick Roth, sits at the door of his temporarily assigned Purple Fox's H-34D helicopter.  HMM-165's helicopters had not yet arrived in Vietnam.
 
- photo courtesy of Rick Roth
 
Over I Corps
One of the 'advance party,' Sanders, normally assigned to the Metal Shop, flys as the portside gunner.  A VMO-2 "slick" is framed in the hatch.
 
- photo courtesy of Rick Roth
1966 Era
Pilots Len LaPointe and John Jones "hard at work" in preparation for their morning missions.
 
- photo courtesy of Rich Roth

 
Mail from Home !!!! Greg Mount shows that he does know someone that can write as Rick Renner looks on in disbelief. September 1966, Ky Ha. Note: we were still living in the dirt floored squad tents.
(photo courtesy of Al Rose)


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