SP5 Marc D.Turpin, 1968/1969
2nd Platoon, 1st Squad

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Photos of 2nd Platoon Guys

                                   
1 - Marc and two mechanics
2 - SSG Chas. Green and Wm. Sharp, Walker Adams in rear
3 - Name not remembered
4 - Gary Strader: Marc's best friend in VN. They reunited two years ago
5 - Marc Feeding a monkey. The monkey was owned by Antonio "Monk" Gonzales from the Flame Platoon. Marc made contact wih Gonzales in 2012

                                       
1 - Stokes and Marc
2 - Walter Adams at the Bob Hope show
3 - Possibly Tim Murphy
4 - William T. Sharp
5 - Stokes, Turpin, Sharp, Strader

                                       
1 - Stokes, Turpin, Adams, Sharp
2 - Steven Wonderly (Marc went through AIT with him at Fort Leonard Wood)
3 - Gerald Hoffman, a fun loving guy from South Carolina (NC?)
4 - SFC Ted Farmer the Company "Top." Remembered as a very good leader
5 - William T. Sharp (Atlanta GA)

                                       
1 - Woman burned by napalm at ferry site
2 - William Sharp after putting a gash in his leg with a circular saw that had its defective blade guard wired open
3 - A TC for a flame APC on My Tho ferry
4 - Mike Banda courtesy of Tony "Monk" Gonzales
5 - Name lost in time. May have been called "Chief". Flame platoon?

                   
1 - Name not recalled
2 - PLT SGT Harvey Campbell and Gary Strader
3 - Light fixture, tennis official's chair, Ben Tre: No names (Tennis???)
4 - LT Aldridge?? New prefab buncker for Ben Tre area
5 -  LT Aldridge (?) was backing Marc up when the rear duals hit the timber dam. Marc informed the LT and was told to back-up and shut-up in that order. Marc followed orders. The 5 ton dump truck full of rock got hung up on the dam. Three Flame APCs tried but failed to move the dump. Late in the day a Tank Retriever from Dong Tam pulled the dump back on the road. The tide had risen three inches up the windshield by that time. Marc's ass got an early bath.

                   
1 - Arther Mowatt (Maine)
2 - Entire 1st Squad with a few extras from 2nd Platoon
3 - Gerald Hoffman
4 - Marc Turpin and Gerald Hoffman
5 - Marc and James Bell

                    
1 - Marc on guard duty atop a guard tower, Dong Tam perimeter racking a Ma Deuce (.50 cal M2 machine gun)
2 - LT Hoover???
3 - ???, Francis Willett and Garry Strader
4-5 - Shaving creme/baby powder fight (John Nay and Adams)

                                       
1 - John Nay and Adams after shaving creme fight
2 - Top guy Dennis Lamee
3 - Marc Turpin in his 5 ton dump truck
4 - Lamee and friend
5 - Roy Linson and Gerald Hoffman

                             
1 - Members of Hawaii Reserves; the one on right Lamee
2 - John May with portrait of his fiancée; portrait framed in Dong Tam
3 - 2nd Platoon Sergeant Harry Campbell keeping beer stock high
4 - 2nd Squad Leader, SGT Moreland

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