Mid 1968 (May), C Company, 1/327 IN, 101 Airborne, discovered Large number of hidden bunkers containing thousands of round of small arms Ammo and artillery rounds up a small canyon just outside A Shau Valley. The next day, after we made our way to the floor of the Rao Nho river valley, we discovered two field pieces, and 33 trucks all buried next to the river.
An amazing engineering feat, the NVA, had been using the river (a large creek at this point) as a road, moving large boulders out of the stream and driving right up the river. When our prepping artillery and bombing told them a large push was coming they both buried all of the rolling stock, and transshipped all the Ammo up into the hills nearby.
every truck was put into a large hole up to the top of the bed, then covered.
we dug several of them out, and pushed them into an area cleared by artillery, and lifted two trucks and both guns out.
We burned the rest.
The photo with troops in it: myself at extreme left, Walt Jackson with torn pants, Valerian Teel, machine gunner(no shirt) and in stingy-brim hat John Gertsch, MOH.
Recent image: Me with FO Ron Christian, and FO RTO Don Cooney, who were also there, Same gun, Pratt Museum Ft Campbell, KY. 2021.
