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ARVN soldiers in 1970 at FSB O'Reilly and in the surrounding mountains
In 1970 South Vietnamese Marines from the 1st ARVN Division occupied a fire support base called O'Reilly near the Laotian border and close to FSB Ripcord where the 101st was under attack and eventually abandoned the base in July. The North Vietnamese then turned their attention to O'Reilly, which had already been the target of smaller attacks. But by late summer - with Ripcord closed - the NVA were thought to be planning a massive attack on O'Reilly. I was a motion picture photographer with the 221st Signal Company/Southeast Asia Pictorial Center and went to O'Reilly in October with Jim Saller, a still photographer and Ken Conkle, another mopic guy. One morning - in an attempt to surprise the NVA - we all left the base on foot, rather than by helicopter. The plan was to try and go so fast through the mountains that we could reach a distant landing zone and be pulled out by helicopter the next morning before the NVA could mass and react. We moved so quickly in such steep and rugged terrain that the only film I have is crossing a fast-moving river that swept one ARVN well down stream. This was not the place to be left behind. Then the film shows people settling in on the LZ for the night and preparing to be lifted off the next morning. I ran out of film just before getting people loading on the Hueys. Film was shot with a Filmo using 16 mm and no sound. It was powered by a wind-up spring (I kid you not) and didn't have a light meter. Army photographers were taught to guess at the exposure.
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