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From: sonnycraven06@aol.com
Date: 07 Jul 2001
Time: 14:27:37
Remote Name: 152.163.197.212
Looking for veternas of the 221st Signal Company (Combat Pictorial), the Army's official in-country combat photographers of the Vietnam conflict. While there were many unit photgrapher's who bravely documented the efforts of their units, only one unit had the responsibility to provide archival record footage to Washington for posterity in both motion picture and still media. Based in Long Binh, the headquarters had 16 elements deployed throughout RVN and assigned to major allied and U.S. fighting forces, including Riverine forces, Korean Tiger Division, Thailand's Queen Cobra Regiment and all the major U.S. Division and seperate Brigades.
These teams documented the TET offensive, attack on the Embassy, attacks on II Field Force Headquarters, Dak To, Khe Sahn, and much more, including coverage of new technologies and war fighting experiments (does anyone remember the Tree Crushers from the Tree Crusher Detachment - Provisional?. Damnest thing you ever saw as the Army searched for ways to clear the forest/jungles. Required several APCs and a squad of Infantry to police up VCs scared out of the jungle by this thing (actually, two of them). (Last one I saw was resting nicely on the bottom of the South China sea - after a test to prove it would float and was watertight - NOT!)
Please contact me.