the Marines of HMM-165
1967
page 6 
 Phu Bai, 25 December 1967 
 A Christmas gathering of White Knight offiers
Top row (l to r): Ned Connely and Ed Hoddie.
Four row: Marlow Bailey, Bob Rogers, Bill Seward, Chuck Biltimire, Mike Davis, Ken Mackie, Jim Morgan, Jim Merrill, Mike Weaver, John Heine, Tom Edmuns, and Ed Pearce.
Third row: Bill Long.
Second row: John Jones, Dan McDyre, Ron Shreves, Lee Dufresne, Steve Bulkley, Jerry Gartman, Harvey Dunn, and Gary Green. 
Front row (l to r): Mike Friel, Vince Gennaro, LtCol Romaine (CO), Maj JJ Tharp, and Doc Romph.
 - photo courtesy of Jerry Gartman
 
 
 Phu Bai, RVN
A crew, minus the gunner, standing on the Phu Bai flight-line.  In front of YW-17 are pilots Lt. Gennaro, Capt. Rogers, and crew/chief "Hulk" Silveira.
 
 - photo courtesy of Joe "Hulk" Silveira
Crew/chief Joe Silveira's "Second to None," YW-17, (from left to right) are crew/chiefs Gary Brown, Joe Silveira and Ben McMillon.  Silhouetted through the hatch is the gunner's mounted M-60 machine gun which dates this photo to be during the early days after the White Knights arrived in Vietnam.
- photo courtesy of Joe "Hulk" Silveira
  
 
 
In cargo hold of aircraft YW-3 sits a group of White Knights sipping Shastas, and from their appearance, on standby.   They are (around, from left to right) Larry Plank, Gary Brown (a.k.a "Big Ed"), Joe "Hulk" Silveira, Ben McMillon, Ed "Van" VanHouten and Ron Boyer.
 
 - photo courtesy of Joe "Hulk" Silveira
"Hot LZ," I Corps, Republic of Vietnam, 1967
 Marine "Grunts," under fire, beat feet into one of three awaiting HMM-165 helicopters.  At the rear of the CH-46 stands a squad leader ensuring that his people get safely aboard, while other assigned Marines (one with his foot on a rice paddy dike) protect the rear.
- photo courtesy of  Tom  Mix


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