C Company, 1st /22nd, 4th Infantry Division, Vietnam, June - Nov, 1967
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- C Company, 1st /22nd, 4th Infantry Division, Vietnam, June - Nov, 1967
This video was filmed with 8mm home movie camera in the Central Highlands Vietnam. The exact dates and places unknown, film clips are in chronological order between approx Sept thru first of November 1967. For anyone in Charlie Company who was there I'm sure it will bring back memories. For anyone who has an interest, this is a first hand view of some of the stuff we did.
Filmed by Craig Nelson,
RTO (battalion freq) Hd Qtrs Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, US Army June-Nov 1967
My dad who served in Vietnam from June 1967- June 1968 as a door gunner in an us army CH47, will be laid to rest today at 10:30am at the North Little Rock Arkansas Veterans Cemetery. We love you dad and you are already so sorely missed
50 years and I still remember some of it like it was yesterday. Dates and exact events I don’t. There were terrible times, but there were also good times. I can still see faces, their voices. The thing I miss most is the brotherhood, that bond. In 50 years I’ve never found that again. Me and a lot of other guys owe our lives to the chopper crews. No matter how bad it was they always came for us. It never leaves you. Not a day goes bye I don’t think about it. 50 years, my god where did time go. ‘69-71
Viva os vietcongues , resistência sempre👊
I was a child in the 60's nam vets were my heroes!!! may god bless them all that passed on!!!!
That Huey has a rock-solid hover.Those pilots have balls of steel much respect to you guys
July 6 1967 year I was born.looking at these videos and saying thank you for the service men then and before and now.
Lots of memories, Thanks for the video. I was with the 2/8 Panther Battalion 4th Inf, Camp Enari, first known as twin teaties and Dragon Mountain Base Camp. Put the first shovel in the ground there in August of 1966.Never really saw the camp since we spent over 300 days in the field and forward fire-bases. along the Cambodian border.
C Co, 3/8th arrived by boat in summer 66, left by C-5 summer 67.
You are a hero to me , sorry that was a game for politics , greeting from Europe
This was my exact unit in Vietnam Jan -Nov 1970. Charlie Company, Roadrunn, then Headquarters Company RTO, Point etc. Thanks for sharing this . I kept a diary and have in on line under this unit: 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, Charlie Company.
I found your diary on the Battalion web site. Maybe you are aware but Charlie Company has a web site: charliecompany.org/about/
Not many people in a rifle company carried a movie camera (none that I know of) I only had one because I won it in a card game when we were in the rear for some reason. Posting this video is what put me in contact with some of the guys I was with and attending our 50th anniversary Charlie Company Reunion.
I was born and grew up in Pleiku. Your base was nearly a mile from my house, my parents told us stories about that day, when US troops came, things they brought to children and Jarai tribes during Christmas. My grandpa joined the war for the South from 1960 or earlier I am not sure, he was a Vietnamese Ranger, was still alive till the end of the war. After the war, my grandpa, my mom, my uncle were put in re-education camps for 1-2 years. I think you still remember Ham Rong mount ( Dragon mount). Until these days, some people there are still using things from US troops like forks and spoons, even your helmet lol. Sometimes we found some bullets on the ground from M16 or Carbine even M79. Some people died because picking them and tried to open them to take the power inside and brought to local market for fishermen, then bad things happened.
The war is now behind us 45 years but still we have stories of GI, some good, some not.
I am lucky to be a tour guide, with English I can search things about war, so that I can understand more from the others, not only what our government taught us about you- "the enemy" at schools LOL.
If you went to the lake, I think it has been changed a little bit but stll beautiful as it does.
I hope you will have good health, happy time with your family and friends there, for get everything behind if you can.
Thanks for sharing this video so that I can see what does my hometown look like back to that day.
Right on 👍👍 Damn shame it couldn't have turned out like Korea 👍😢 ‼️
I love Pleiku! It's Jarai for "high village"... 'nuff said!
Spent most of 1970 there, working out of the Montagnard hospital at the Special Forces compound, as well as the surveillance border camps in II Corps. I had access to a jeep, and often drove alone, or with my buddies out to the countryside , including the beautiful Bien Lake and Buddhist monastery north of town. Vietnamese were unfailingly kind to me, even when I discovered a bar out in the bush, and blundered right in, unarmed... I noticed everyone else had black "pajamas" and high, tight haircuts... their weapons were nearby, I was certain... OOOOPS! Wrong bar! We stared each other down for a few tense moments, and an understanding was reached... NOW would be a good time for ME to leave, which I did... I walked out, hopped in the jeep, and headed back to camp...
I returned in 2005 and taught English in VInh... The faculty took turns giving me a two hour language lesson every day...Students brought me home to meet their extended families, share a meal, and offer incense at their family altar. One young lady, a co-worker, adopted me for her dad, and had me give her away at her wedding. I look forward to returning to this magical and fabulous place. Toi yeu Viet Nam... I love Vietnam...
Steve McElmury you are always welcome
@@hoanglongnguyen8584 Cam on nhieu! Thank you very much!
Thank you all for your service. Amazing footage. Thanks for sharing. Wow!
I was in the 4/42nd Artillery 4th Inf. Div. around the same time 6/1967 t0 12/1967, they were commanded by Col. Rosell, a really brave and fine leader. We fired many a round of 105mm to help them stay alive.
Thanks Nick for your service. Glad you made it back!
S Lvov ggddghn
What is it about war, that it has this alluring pull on it?
It pulls young men into this whirlpool of mayhem, horror and suffering. Yet they find something priceless in it.
You really got to admire them getting into this mess because of honor and integrity. These things are in really short supply these days.
I myself havent been in any wars and perhaps im blowing wind out of my arse right now, but in any case i salute you all who went through that ordeal.
We were drafted like our forefathers and we accepted the call as Americans and now we vets are brothers something that civilians cannot understand.
@@e.g.flores2819 You are 100% right. Posting this video put me in contact with guys in my Company after 50 yrs. They ALL say the same thing.
Hope you are well, Craig. Thank you for sharing this.
This film is the best in country (routine duty) l've seen so far. Great respect.
Outstanding!
Thanks
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I was with the 4th in 67-68 medic with the ambulance platoon. Remember our buddies that didn't make it out. To those that did, "WELCOME HOME"!
Great video! Footage is awesome! 👍
Thank you for sharing this video with all of us! Glad you made it home safe ✌️
Jody we all heard about you
@@garyhartley3680 I'm not sure I follow....
@@jodyljohnson8515 Drill Sargents in basic always insured a guy named Jody was taking care of our girl back at home
@@garyhartley3680 lol, I see ✌️
This is unbelievable. Its real. The real thing. I'm sitting stunned. It like I get up and go to work every day but these guys do the same. But I'm not gonna get shot at any turn. They seem to take this like an every day job. Amazing bravery. It actually goes beyond bravery its stunning to see a human act with such stoicism, in the face of such adversity, I'm in such awe of this I have no words or emotions to convey what im am feeling..
May í ad without offending anyone this is the idea of a HERO to me. Yet are rearly mention today by the youth their definition is warped thanks for the video an the music. I salute you on this memorial day God BLESS.
That was excellent in a haunting kinda way. I was in architeture school when this was made and never went. I'm thankful for that. But God Bless those who did participate.
Thanks, I was in a car accident, during my recovery time I dropped out of college. A few months later I was drafted. The rest is, well. . . . this video and now 50 years later a bit of a window into history.
Outstanding soundtrack. Thank you for sharing!
*Great work!! Glad to see!!!*
Excellent footage great soundtrack best Vietnam flick showing the real deal
Too all my country men and women.
Thank you for your service Ivory Men!
Long! Live! America!
Steadyfast & Loyal
Nice and telling footage, great choice of music...!!
Thanks for the comment. I've taken some heat for the music. Some people think it should be "period correct"
Thank you very much see you again
Not many home movies back then, thanks for posting... I was B 1/22 for last of`68, then went to 1/22 Recon for much of `69 (as a medic in both cases...).
Great video and music, I was with HHT 7/17th Air Cav, Plieku and Anson (Lane AHP).
I am from Central highland Vietnam. Thank you for fighting for our freedom. I really wish US troops won the war.
I wish we won too. 50 years later I think though your country is better off than then with all the fighting and loss of life. Thanks for the comment.
My grandfather was in the central highlands in 67 68 as an RTO with the 25th infantry
ouch, its not often spoke of (our defeat in vietnam) , in fact its more often you'll hear flat out lies about glorious victory, or maybe even just hints of it being more of a wash our hands of the whole thing.. but never EVER is it thought to be tragic defeat. the sad thing about war is that its quite necessary every 10 or 15 yrs. but this wasnt even technically "war", war was never actually declared. it was termed as a "police action". always trying to force out way of life, our govt. our ideals etc down the so called throats of other countries. imagine this "police action" having been in todays times. hmm its definitely interesting to delve into that horror. good day to you & your gorgeous country.
We weren't allowed too win the war plus l have a issue with losing the war we didn't lose the war either no matter what anyone thinks or saids I'll say it again we didn't lose the war and we had our hands tied behind our backs and still we didn't lose l don't recall them winning any major battles besides they have more of our companies there than they do any other country plus our job was to stop the spread of communism and l think we did even if indirectly we did it
We tried my friend and believe me we are sad to this day for the way things turned out. We went there to make things better
My Dad went over on the "Pope" September of 1966. Went to Dragon Mountain, Pleiku. He did a lot walking around for a mechanic. Sgt. Robert Levine. We had been in Germany for a few years then went to Ft. Lewis,Wa. My Dad had been at Kornwestheim near Ludwigsburg. In typical Army thinking my Dad was made the drill instructor for the conscientious objectors at Ft. Lewis. When he told my Mom he was moving into the barracks because he was a DI for the C.O.'s. He showed her the stack of manuals and went to work. Respect to all IVth Infantry Division!
Bless you all!
Thank you, never forgetting. The Waterboys were an interesting touch, I don't know why people are complaining. They probably complain a lot. 🤔
To all the young men and woman that went to Vietnam and never came home R I P 🙏
You will never be Forgotten ❤
From a Canadian
My dad was in the 4th; Recon support for 10th Armored, 1970. Go Lost Lieutenants!
USMC - 1969 to 1973; Vietnam '71 - '72. Ohhhh Rahhhh, Semper Fi to all my fellow Jarheads.
Thank you for your service sir. Sure you have some insane stories.
Steadfast & Loyal!!
Good!
Great job Craig. C1/22 Jul 67 - Jul 68
So what
My Father was at 1/22 HHC Battalion Aid Station - Camp Enari, Pleiku 67/68/68/69
I put the first shovel in the ground at Camp Enari, before Enari it was called Dragon Mountain Base Camp, but we called it twin teaties for the two hills there that looked like a set off breast sticking out of the ground. We landed there, after a 19 day voyage that left in July of 1966 from Tacoma Washington. We got there 19 days later first part of August. Camp Enari was named after one of the first Lieutenants killed in action. I was with 2/8 HHC Panther Battalion, combat medic assigned to line companies and forward fire-bases. 66/67.What is/was your fathers name?
E. G. Flores that’s awesome. If I had a way to directly message you, or email I could tell you his name. I just don’t want to expose his name on CZcams though. There is a 1/22 website that he corresponded with before he passed away. He uploaded many, many photographs from that time
@@e.g.flores2819 C Co 3/8th. I think "Patch" was the name of the merchant marine boat. 1st boat out of port of Tacoma broke down about 12 miles out and we disembarked in Seattle...had to wait 2 weeks for another ride to Nam. Walked the bush around Tuy Hoa for 4 or 5 months then up to Dak To special forces camp (Pleiku area) and the hills around the Cambodian border.
Bar chrome I remember "Enari" base of Dragon Mtn..we would stage our convoy there wait for the to be swept..
of mines..onward to our FB 25 miles to the south on QL-19...was also a staging area for...battery from /92nd
arty with their 175mm & 8inch "earthquake"!!!!💪💪💪💪💪👏👏👏👏🦅🇺🇸😎❗️❗️❗️✌️
For my brother in law Sgt Robert Mulford (Oct68 - Oct 69) 11B40
iT WAS A 8MM WORLD BACK THEN, color/silent and maybe a zoom lens..if you had a Yashica.
allen schmitz wow, I had a Yashica.
This are the easy jobs in the Army.
It takes ten of this jobs to keep a
Grunt in the mountains hunting
the NVA .But a grunt can go
without food,water and sleep
for many days and still climb the
mountains and fight the NVA.
Music’s personal. People shouldn’t criticise. It sets a vibe. In this case it works fine.
BTW, tell us what brand movie cam you used, was it a Bell& Howell?
Anyone happen to serve in the Army with the 4th IND (Ivory Men) anywhere from oct.1969-oct.1970? I'm curious because my dad, PFC. Tom Croud (AKA Gator) was in the 4th infantry division during that time span. Hes still alive and I think it'd be cool to find one of his buddies. I think it would help him alot being able to talk about things with the guys he was there with. The things he can't talk about with anyone else
i was with them at pleiku and ahn khe april 69 to april of 70. was at lz oasis most of it
I was HHC scout platoon not Nam but in 2008 great unit loved it
And we all go down together
Too all my country men and women.
Thank you for your service Veteran!
Long! Live! America!
Steadyfast & Loyal
1st/16th Infantry 1968. I was there.
Respect from france
Alpha Co. Iraq war 2003-2006....love y'all... steadfast and loyal
I was 3/66 AR mortars. Ya'll were right down the road from us at Hood. Some 1/22 would occasionally roll through our AO in Bayji back in 2003.
Thank God you for you for your service!
@@brucewands1433 just a job...thanks
649th MP CO, Task Force Lonestar 588th Eng BN, FOB Warhorse. Diyala Province Iraq 2003-2004. 💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸
Really good filming for the day. Music should be time appropriate because that's what they were listening to then.
I was there 1967 on board a navy destroyer, We operated from the Mekong delta and river to north of the DMZ naval gun fire support, Thing is we were using World War 2 ammunition.
My uncle was in Charlie company at camp evans Charles E Carroll or chuck.
Awsome film! Unbelievable soundtrac.
The Waterboys soundtrack to this works so well even though it’s not from the same era!! Listen to the music and watch.
Welcome home brothers...68 yo Navy Veteran, never in-country
Glade you made it home brother. I LOVE MY FLAG.
Another day at the office
I recognized Capt. Kleese because of his hair color and black shirt but not many others.
1 bn/2nd inf, 1st Inf Div. Mar ‘68-Apr ‘69
A war that should have never happen
525MI Grp 4 Inf Div 68-69
Where's the Poison Ivy... Salute you Brothers ...
Craig did you by chance live in LaPorte, CO , if so we know each other and would like to get back in touch
Nice footage, was this single *8 or super 8mm?
Sound track: Water Boys.
and the track name?
FalconMoose new wavers
Music sucks. The video is good though
Bad music
God bless all who fought because they were ask and the drafted because they did. Diabetes took me out but I would have gladly joined.
HQ1/22 4th Inf Div
Thank you and welcome home!!
So
Anyone know what type of cannon that is at 19:36,is it a spg?
So much talk that Americans lost that war. That we were defeated. America didn't loose the Vietnam war. The definition of defeat is surrender. We did not surrender anything other than our willingness to continue killing and being killed. We walked away for the sake of all rightousbess. This is not loss. This is sanity. Loved the video and the music was very fitting. Thank you.
Donald King bullshit
Don King. The U.S.A. became involved in Vietnam to protect its strategic & economic interests in South Vietnam by defeating the Viet Cong (and when the NVA got involved, they also had to be defeated).
Due to the actions of the NVA & Viet Cong, the U.S.A.failed to fulfill any of those goals. That means the U.S.A. did not win the war in Vietnam, it lost..
Yes technically we won every battle and figured out the south would never fight for its own freedom and walked away.
@@sethlance8009 The war was an immoral disgrace, started and promulgated by the US because they thought it would be easy, and ultimately lost when you slunk away with your tail between your legs.
Hugh McInally ok but they stopped fighting for themselves so we left
Tet 68, was a FNG at Camp Holloway across the street from Camp Enari. Recall when sappers blew your ammo dump and there was that huge yellow mushroom cloud! We were, what a mile away or so ( oops! forgot "clicks) and our ground shook and all the wooden window covers came slamming down, jumping out of the bunk looked a next guy and his eyes were like "F...! My first thought was holy shit we've gone nuclear!! 2 weeks earlier at Bien Hoa getting off the airliner it was mortared, no KIA's , but welcome son! I only have but one regret, was an RA.
thinking back, must have been a little more than 2 weeks, who knows, and if someone knows, why?
Iwas a tunnel rat 4th-8th field recon.
Nick Mad how was It Sir? ¡RESPECT!
My uncle in 68 69 he said you had to grow up fast and that's all he said about VIETNAM. He's one of the BEST people I know. GOD BLESS ALL of THOSE MEN WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM.
Better you than me. I have a story of a guy in my company. He was in a tunnel and got shot he said he saw a light and felt at peace. Then his mother was telling him not to go. The whole time we are pulling him out. When he got out there was a bird to get him to the field hospital. I saw him 2 years later in Coranoto. I didn't think he made it. His mother knew when he was shot and was praying not to go home when we were pulling him out. True story he was always happy and said nothing to fear going home. We called him mouse and I lost track of him when I got out. I heard he bought a bar in Vallejo ca. This was 1974 when i got out he stayed in. If your in Vallejo and see a guy that answers to mouse tell him Sgt mac says high from L co.
AWESOME - Tunnel Rats did God's own work...
Have yuo gone back I visited there last year threat isn't even thuoght of
HHC 2nd/11th INF 4th INF
co. B 1/22 june 67 to june 68
Co. A 1/22nd
July67-July68
So what
Music was fine what type of music should you play for this type of situation I don't care about the music I care about American soldiers Going In Harm's Way God bless each and every one of them
Vipers aka “ one bite Betty’s “
if you talkin bout the guy with the snake wrapped around him or the big long snake on the ground slideing around .....neither one was the bamboo viper....i didn't watch each and every second of the video but those two were not , can't remember what they were called , i did see the last 3 ft. of one , twice as big around as those two , the front past of him was out of my line of sight . Them 3 step mothers was real little (Short ) , and skinny , less than a foot or so long , like i said that f'er will kill ya deader than a door nail , and you don't have time to say tell ole linda lou / betty sue i said bye . I couldn't say weather they was able to come up with some anti venom for'em or not . I never saw any body get bit but have seen enough to shake out everything real good before puttin somethin on . No disrespect to the fellers that said they were bamboo vipers....i ain't no expert on nothin .
Where Pleiku- Ayunpa.
thank you
nobody agrees about the dates
where u guyz find this shit lolol I thought I seen it alll nice men coooll
Whats with the music?
4.2 inch motors co e 1/22 68 and 69
Can't remember SFC in 4.2 that was there in 69', believe it was his 3rd tour, a amazing Section,! Cdr E Co
@@brucewands1433 was it Martinez?
@@garyhartley3680
Think it was his 3rd tour.
CAM ON NGUOI LINH MY ĐA CHIÊN ĐÂU TAI VIÊT NAM 😂😅👍👏
Choppers were the balls!
Mỹ tham chiến ở VN 1965 đến 1973 xem những trận đánh mà phóng viên chiến trường quay lại như cinema và những tài tử Hollywood mạng sống của chiến binh hoa kỳ tựa lông hồng
Yes I am
0pm you can be
Rolling stones
If I was rich I'd buy me one of them " Hueys 👍🤗 ‼️ "
Great Soundtrack, who is it? Before my time.
The Water Boys from the 80's. From the comments there is a love/hate relationship with the soundtrack, the haters think it should be period correct 60's.
@@craignelson6113 I think that the songs are perfect. It doesn't matter when they were recorded. What matters is what they express. I was born in 1960, so I just missed the Vietnam war, but if it had lasted, I most likely would have enlisted. Never would have thought our government would have lied to us back then. Now, it is almost expected. Thank you for your service. My mentor, a former Marine, passed away a number of years ago, having been shot twice in Nam. He was my football coach, teacher, and friend. And my hero.
เป็นสงครามที่โหดผู้คนล้มตายเยอะมากอีกสงครามหนึ่งในความทรงจำของอเมริกาและเวียดนาม
Why did I survive when over 58k didn’t
Does anybody know what kind of snake that was in the beginning of the show?
Here is the story on the snake. 1-22infantry.org/history4/clarence.htm
brd400 bout a 16-18 ft long python...btw...had my first taste of python at a local "yard" villiage after we came
in after 5 days of recon round our FB in the Highlands in 68.. it was cornered under a troopers cart taking his
muddy boots an throwing his boots under the cart...flash...snake came out slithering between his feet.. snakes
head was wider than two fists together!! one swipe of machete..problem solved...it was a little greasy.but
washed it down with home made "Rice wine" put a fire in me...I might add!!💪💪💪😝😝😝🦅🇺🇸✌️😎❗️
At around 00:32 it looks like the snake on the ground is a Boa Constrictor, which is only native to South America. How did one of these wind up in South East Asia in the late 60s-early 70s?
I am no snake expert and cannot confirm this but I heard a story of someone bringing their pet snake from the States, maybe this is it, have no clue how someone could pull that off. I have to say though there are some huge snakes over there as I almost stepped on an approx 12-15' snake before seeing it. Scared the crap out of me.
@@craignelson6113 love the footage... love the sounds of the Huey's and the Chinooks.... family of 3/12 4th A co.
Welcome home ✌️
Update on the snake, here's the full story: 1-22infantry.org/history4/clarence.htm
@@craignelson6113 quite an interesting read! Thank you for sharing this with us and giving the update on Clarence... love it ✌️😋✌️
Hey.
THANK YOU SOLDIER !...4 NOT RUNNING 2 FCUK'N CANADA EH !
Infantry living in jungle for 60 days at a time terrible terran
Fuckin A Willie Pete, Follow Me
Anntonia
Did they kill the snake
I would've ate it.
That music does not fit. What's your agenda?
It sucks.
wtf
I think it fits ,off kind or way
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