the Marines of HMM-165
 
1966
page 3 
Smoke rises (left of the M-60 barrel) where the LZ is being "prepped" as this helicopter starts its descent into Helicopter Valley.  This was not a good day.
 
 - photo courtesy of Rich Roth
   
This motley group walking along the flight line at Ky Ha in early September is (l. to r.) Dave Laubach, Al Rose and Rick Roth. Per normal, Roth had lost his head and Rose is carrying him on his back.
 
 
 
 

    (photo curtesy of Al Rose)
Ky Ha, Republic of Vietnam, October 1966
The Four Horsemen: these four HMM-165 Crew/Chiefs are (from left to right) Jay Dunn, Mike Burgess, Don Anthony, and Jim "Wizzy" Wissmar.
- photo courtesy of Rich Roth
After missions in October 1966, Maj. "Lima" Payton, Maj. Perry and Capt. "Bobby" Byrd are in the "normal" pilot setting.  Opportunities to let off some steam were welcome and necessary!
 
- photo courtesy of Rich Roth
I Corps, Republic of Vietnam, Fall 1966
Crew/Chief Richard Dick's YW-19 lays upside-down and shattered on this hill in Vietnam.  The bird was one of twenty-one HMM-165 helicopter that took part in a "strike" that day.  The copilot, John Fulton, was the only seriously injured Marine in the crew.  An unidentified crew member shifts through the wreck.
- photo courtesy of Jim "Wizzy" Wissmar
 
 
I Corps, Republic of Vietnam, 1966
Russell "Sprad" Spradley aboard a Buffalo City '46.
 
- photo courtesy of Rick Roth


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