redBeach

8inch Howitzer M-110 USMC No. 51461, at "Red Beach" Northern Artillery Cantonment, Danang, I think Early 1968, this was the gun I was assigned to when first getting in country in January 1968 as a PFC. Before going to Ammo Tech school in Okinawa, and becoming Battery Ammo Tech, I was A-Gunner, (Guy that got to pull the lanyard), Driver, and general Gun-Bunny, and went to LCPL.. Nothing quite compares to pulling that cord, and sending a 200+ pound projectile down range, (in excess of 10 miles), and then being told that we put it "in the door" of a bunker, by the FO.