NDQSAAir Defense Artillery service during the Vietnam War
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Daniel Gallagher’s personal digital slideshow scrapbook video is about 6 minutes and is titled
“The Duster Units in Vietnam 1/44, 5/2 and 4/60”
Most of the pictures belong to him. Some are from the men of the 2/7th Cav at Phan Theit in 1967.
Some are from the 1/44th Duster Battalion, Charlie Battery on the DMZ.
Locations include L.Z. Betty, L.Z. Judy, and at Phan Theit, Rockpile and D-5 at the DMZ.
These units were spread from the DMZ to Saigon. They were used to guard LZ’s, run convoys, and search and destroy with infantry units from 1966-1972.
William Hodges’s gave us his hour long color movie that is his personal look at life in a Duster squad. His movie includes convoy operations, perimeter security, and daily life on a fire base.
Some of the movie is bouncy but what do you expect when filming from the turret of a Duster. Some Duster live fire. An interesting piece filming the squad pulling an engine pack.
Your webmasters put together a short YouTube video of some of the best material that we think you will enjoy.
A good reflection of daily life in a Duster squad in the Central Highlands in 1971.
Bernard W. Boimann, Headquarters, 4th Battalion (AW)(SP), 60th Artillery, Camp Radcliff 1970 shared this heritage artifact, a commercially produced yearbook, with the NDQSA webmasters. He also has his own scrapbook video on the website. All 140 pages of the yearbook were scanned, but for WordPress limitations and better presentation it is broken up into the individual companies and the battalion headquarters. All of the named individuals and most of the candid photos are of men assigned to the headquarters element of the companies rather than in the operational platoons which are combat deployed at fire bases away from An Khe and Camp Radcliff.