The first photo shows Marines of Echo and Whiskey Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division working on clearing gun positions for fire support base on Hill 510, 35 miles southwest of DaNang. (Defense Dept. Photo, Taken by GySgt Parnell on or about 17-18 Jun 1970)
The second photo shows Marines of 11th Engineers as they swarm all over bridges as work is being rushed to Operational Route #9 to Khe Sanh on Operation Pegasus. (Defense Dept. Photo, Taken by SSgt J.A. Reid in April 1968)
Submitted by
John Ratomski
My name is Terry Johnson. I served in Whisky 2/11 from 69-70 and I am the man in the middle of this picture. I had a copy of this picture that was printed in the Sea Tiger on August 7, 1970. The man to my left was named Hodgkiss and the one on the right was named Laurance, I unfortunately lost the copy of the paper over the years but do have a zerox copy of it. Couldn’t believe it whenn I saw this picture…thanks for putting in here.
I was in 3/11 at the time in 66/67 before we moved to hill 55.many people never talk about the 67 TET when all guns were pinned down. but 11ths guns fired I was at OP lou at the time.
I was on hill 510 with whiskey 1/11 Sept 69.