Cpl. Terry Oldham. Taken at Hotel Battery.
If you look carefully below the fireball on the left you can just make out someone's helment. Don't know where this was taken.
A lot of the NVA/VC strategy revolved around staying as close as they could to us so we couldn't use our two biggest assets; airpower and artillery. That explains why so many of the firefights wher fought at such close range.
They also dug holes everywhere they went. Given any real time they usually spent it preparing positions to fight from. This made it very difficult to dislodge them from areas where they had had a lot of time to prepare.
Tony said the man on the right was killed on August 25, 1969. That would mean he is Pfc. Richard Shelton. He got in country on July 29th and was walking point when he was shot. My only memory of him is when he was carried past me on a bambo mat after he was killed.
January 14, 2002. It now seems like this isn't Richard Shelton. Contact has been made with his sister, Mary Drumheller, and she doesn't think this is him.
Roary Walsh was the second man in line when he was killed. He spent a couple of tough hours lying behind Shelton's body before we could get him out.
