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Picuture looking up the hill
from the C/1/13 XO pit to the FDC bunker on the left of the picture.
Taken the day after the FDC bunker took an 82 mortar round through the
roof. Of the 4 Marines inside, 2ndLt. Leslie M. Palm, Sgt. William
Hubbard, PFC Gary L. Riley and one other Marine, only PFC Riley was injured.
PFC
Gary L. Riley's memories of this incident.
. Photo by, Lt. Leslie
M. Palm
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2ndLt. Leslie M. Palm on left holding the fin assembly
of 82mm mortar round that went throught the roof of the FDC bunker the
night before. On the right of the picture is Sgt. William Hubbard.
Unidentified Marine in the middle.
. Photo by, Lt. Leslie
M. Palm
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Photo taken from the C/1/13 FWD FDC bunker down the
hill towards the "C" XO Pit. Marine is sitting on the wall into the
XO pit. Late Jan 1968.
. Photo by, Lt. Leslie
M. Palm
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Another photo of 2ndLt. Leslie M. Palm and 1st Lt.
Carlton B. Crenshaw, with the binos this time, firing at NVA mortar position
south of 881S. Late Jan or early Feb 1968.
. Photo by, Lt. Leslie
M. Palm
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Photo taken from the top of 881S towards 881N.
Flames over the ridgeline on 881N are from 2 napalm cannisters colliding
after they were released from a jet trying to drop on an NVA position.
Elements of I/3/26 were in contact with dug in NVA force. Either
19 or 20 Jan 1968.
. Photo by, Lt. Leslie
M. Palm
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Cpl. Joseph Y. "Jody" Hawkins arrived in country in
Sept. 1967. His CO noted his size and directed him to become a M-60
machine gunner. When he arrived on Hill 881S he was designated a
.50 caliber machine gunner.
. Photo by, Cpl.
Joseph Y. Hawkins
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