|
Varsity Photo
Gallery |
|
Photos/captions this page by Paul
Sparrell and Denton Sandquist. |
|
Varsity Valley - home sweet home once
again. Lower pads, I think behind Gork and officers' hootches. Nose in or out. |
|
A/C 435. Second tier flight
line. Access road just in front. |
|
A/C 143 crew chief Dennis
Phillipine waiting for weather to lift. |
|
A/C 143 at Chu Lai.
|
|
Paul Sparrell with the late A/C 435
on upper flight line. Company area directly behind ship. |
|
A/C 143 in revetment #10 where a
hill was just in front of blade ends. Don't get too far forward here! |
|
Nice tow vehicle. (Easier to tow downhill
like this if you have good brakes. Tom H.) |
|
Prepping out in the open away from
other ships. Rocket shrapnel on left side from nose to pylon - some on both sides. Note burial monument. |
|
Sling attached. Start lifting.
|
|
Breaking ground,
A/C 143 leaves for Da Nang.
|
|
Away she goes.
66-19143 off to Da Nang.
|
|
EM club above my right shoulder.
In front of "Ed Cunningham's" AA + bunker. Ed was former infantry turned hook door gunner. |
|
A Shau Valley Firebase. Maybe
north or up around Vandergriff. |
|
Hue '69. Church under
repair all year, not much progress. |
|
Hue '69. Another damaged church.
|
|
Memorial cemetary outside Hue.
Burial plots, not bomb craters in foreground. |
|
Pilots may recognize this
landmark near Hue. I don't.
(Part of the Citadel. Tom H.)
|
|
Perfume River bridge near Hue.
|
|
AH-1 Cobra security blanket
on the way to the valley. |
|
UH-1 "Huey" slingload over
South China Sea. Could be the one we dropped at Chu Lai. Maybe not. |
|
Paul Sparrell
|
|
James Walton and Paul Sparrell
|
|
Varsity 142 flipped over during
night maintenance run-up in 1970. Photo caption is typo. |