From Richard Lakatos
| Richard Lakatos on the right. |
From Rik Pugh
| 1st platoon's hootch at Cobb Bridge. The square tin roofed ediface is what we referred, mostly in humor, as our club. You weren't allowed in it, but at 5 o'clock or so we could line up outside and buy two warm beers. |
From Ray Rankin
| This was taken at Cobb Bridge. All the men here were from Hawaii. We picked them up either at the very end of Operation Oklahoma Hills or as soon as we got to Cobb Bridge. That would have been toward the end of April. By the end of August they were almost all gone. Curtis Kern front left, John Pedro center, Clarence Stevens. Clayton Tellio top left, Charles Kanehailua, Kimo Peleiholani leaning on his hand, Tom Abril. Kimo was killed August 26, 1969. Clayton was wounded August 26, 1969 Clarence was wounded August 23, 1969 Curtis was wounded, date unknown Charles was wounded about October 15, 1969 Tom was wounded, date unknown One day on a patrol John Pedro got all excited when he saw some bananas and wanted to show us how his mother cooked bananas and how good they were. We were all generally in accord with about anything allowing goofing off and this looked as good an excuse as any so he was told to have at it. He cooked and fumed and fussed in a most satisfactory manner for a long time until he announced they were done. They really sucked, but it was something to do. |
From Lonnie Hedley
From Lonnie Hedley
