MAG 16 Sign Crash rescue Sign
Home made shower KC-130 Air dropping supplys
Water falls close to Khe Sanh village
This page was last updated on: May 19, 2007
I would like to honor Steve Weldon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines.
July 2, 1967 during the battle of Buffalo he was wounded 3 times. He spent over
4 months in the hospital. When released from the hospital he was assigned duty
with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines and finished his tour of duty as a
true Marine would. Steve is alive and well in up state New York. Now you have
met a true American Hero an a Marine who is a living part of history. Semper Fi
my brother.
The air drops was the life line for troops at Khe Sanh.
The air drops were tried and tested under combat and
were prefected by pilots and crewmen who gave their
lives to deliver supplys to their brothers on the ground.
The same methods tried and tested at Khe Sanh were
used in a later war, years later, Desert Storm.
A real hero Navy Hospital Corpsman FMF Vernon Wike
Corpsman Wike trying to save the life of a
wounded Marine on hill 881 North in 1967
The hill battles lasted for 12 days stright.
Navy Hospital Corpsmen saved the lives
of countless Marines in combat, and a lot
of Corpsmen were killed while giving medical
treatment to Marines. When they heard.....
"CORPSMAN UP" they were there,exposing
themselves to enemy fire. Corpsmen are highly
respected by Marines. They are the few, the proud, the Corpsmen assigned to Marine units.
Vernon Wike was only 19 years old when this
picture was taken. What were you doing at 19 ?
March 1967, evidence provided by Recon Teams points to an
all out assault on the Combat Base at Khe Sanh, Khe Sanh
Village and all outpost in the area by the North Vietnamese
Army.
April 1967, Operation Hill Battles starts.
May 1967, Operation Crockett starts.
July 1967, Operation Ardmore starts.
November 1967, Operation Scotland starts.
December 1967, the elite 304th NVA Division is spear
heading the drive to Khe Sanh along with 12 other NVA
Divisions and their main intent is to take Khe Sanh and
kill every american there. I rotated back to the States the
same week this was going on, must have been my lucky
week. I was glad to leave,but yet I wanted to stay,I hated
leaving my friends behind knowing I would never see them
again.
During the 76 day siege the North Vietnamese Army pounded Khe Sanh with a estimated total of 40,000
rockets,mortors and artillary shells. The siege was
declared over on April 6, 1968. Two months later
General Westmoreland ordered the base to be abanded.
Didn't make a whole lot of sence to me and I was very
pissed off when I heard about it, knowing that so many
lives that were lost and for what........
Khe Sanh Combat Base Goodies from heaven
