Lynn "Butch" Dalpez's partial VN Album

We owe a GREAT debt of gratitude to "Butch" Dalpez, For these great shots of some stuff we don't get to see much of! Thanks, Butch! Most of these are closeups. And I have been asked by several interested parties or friends about them. Well, here are the pictures that are worth a THOUSAND WORDS! Unfortunately we did not know about the hazards of swimming in diluted agent orange. Other than that, the shot of the bomb crater swimmin hole is FANTASTIC!----Apologies that I was not able to get them scanned in and the album up till now!

|Ft. Lewis | The Cruise | Bear Cat | Convoy to Dau - Tieng | Building Dau - Tieng |
General, Arty OPS |Battle of Soui - Tre | A/2/12Inf. Warriors on SouiTre | FSB BURT |
Alpha 2/12 Viet Safari Photos |Tet @ Dau - Tieng | HOME | Life as an FO's Rto |
|Who are these Guys? | Alpha Battery Album '68 | A/2/12Inf. @ Home |
| A/2/12 "Thunder Road Mission" | Uptight 2/77FA & Cambodia '70 |

This is the Quad .50 that was blown up by one of our guns
with an HE 105 round I believe during Soui Tre. Or beehive. The enemy was in the process of turning it upon the us. Taken a few weeks before the battle.

This the twin 40MM "Duster." We always had at least one of them
and usually a couple of Quads with us at our FSBs. Note the IIFFV, 2d Bn. 5th ADA Designation on the left of the front.
This of course,is a swimmin hole break. For you interested civilians,
the "Swimmin Hole" started as a 1,000lb. bomb crater
caused by a B-52. Lots of them in our AO. 3rd Platoon, C/2/22 Inf.(M) hadn't had a bath in weeks.
This is Combat Lynn, "The Butcher Baby". He's gettin ready to go on patrol.
He was not posing, but caught unaware.

These are some Arty "Practice Shots" on the treeline of Soui Tre called by Lynn.
At the order of his Lt. Probably similar to what is often called "Final protective fires" by the Arty
This picture is an old fashioned "Instant Replay" of Lynn washing at a Viet Cong river camp. Set up cuz he fingered it would make a great "Life in the bush" shot. Good thinkin, Butcher Baby, hahaha!
The "Dreadnoughts" (2/34 Armor) in scratch head conference. Do we have to "break" the track to get off all the vines that wrapped around the drive sprocket? Best recollection - Lynn thinks they did.

|Ft. Lewis | The Cruise | Bear Cat | Convoy to Dau - Tieng | Building Dau - Tieng |
General, Arty OPS |Battle of Soui - Tre | A/2/12Inf. Warriors on SouiTre | FSB BURT |
Alpha 2/12 Viet Safari Photos |Tet @ Dau - Tieng | HOME | Life as an FO's Rto |
|Who are these Guys? | Alpha Battery Album '68 | A/2/12Inf. @ Home |
| A/2/12 "Thunder Road Mission" | Uptight 2/77FA & Cambodia '70 |

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This is the Quad .50 that was blown up by one of our guns with an HE 105 round I believe during Soui Tre. Or beehive. The enemy was in the process of turning it upon the us. Taken a few weeks before the battle.	This the twin 40MM "Duster." We always had at least one of them and usually a couple of Quads with us at our FSBs. Note the IIFFV, 2d Bn. 5th ADA Designation on the left of the front.	This of course,is a swimmin hole break. For you interested civilians, the "Swimmin Hole" started as a 1,000lb. bomb crater caused by a B-52. Lots of them in our AO. 3rd Platoon, C/2/22 Inf.(M) hadn't had a bath in weeks.	This is Combat Lynn, "The Butcher Baby". He's gettin ready to go on patrol. He was not posing, but caught unaware.
These are some Arty "Practice Shots" on the treeline of Soui Tre called by Lynn. At the order of his Lt. Probably similar to what is often called "Final protective fires" by the Arty	This picture is an old fashioned "Instant Replay" of Lynn washing at a Viet Cong river camp. Set up cuz he fingered it would make a great "Life in the bush" shot. Good thinkin, Butcher Baby, hahaha!	The "Dreadnoughts" (2/34 Armor) in scratch head conference. Do we have to "break" the track to get off all the vines that wrapped around the drive sprocket? Best recollection - Lynn thinks they did.