Ken Gow Photos | 101st Airborne 327 Infantry

2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division

Ken Gow Photos

Name: Melvin Fenn
Hometown: Alvarado , Texas
Date: July 28, 2010 - 11:58 AM (pacific)

Great site. I can smell burning bamboo and taste the unique taste of the water there. My achilles still hurt so I have that effect going. Very proud I served; collectively we halted the cancer of communisim in that region of the world. We had a window of opportunity, for the blink of time we were just the right age...we took it and served. --Shot in right calf, medic Pate fixed it, did not infect...no lost time since we did not move much just then. A rare time of carrying a rolled up poncho at all, shot through it into the butt...Pate and Lt Eklund pulled it out...don't think any of us enjoyed it. Laughing. Grenade to right side during an assualt; no idea where we were when that thing flipped me, but instantly back to the feet as if carrying a fountain drink and not wanting to spill a bit...another piece of those frags just may be making it to the surface at this very time, and it is minorly exciting after so many decades. Bad deal on a parachute jump (no idea of who to thank for getting me out of that little deployment), and a comma for a few days, then right back to work. No purple hearts, as they were refused, same as I saw other guys do for insignificant wounds. I remember a cigarette lighter we were given just prior to leaving, one of my daughters holds it now, it reads on the face: "America's Finest at Freedoms Frontier". Wow, did I wear out several pairs of boots for that honor. We were tired, right! ---I've had a great life as I hope others have as well...lustfull times, confused times, fortunate and earned...most things once wronged were gotten 'better'. I Cannot complain.

Vietnam 2nd battalion

Photos from Ken Gow

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(Below Left) Taking time for Chow - L to R: K Gow, SSG Wayne Foster, "Schoolteacher", "Apache". Since I was squad RTO, I always had to have that PRC 25 hanging off me to monitor any traffic.
									FSB Tomahawk somewhere

									This was posed at Camp Eagle during a 3 day standdown in 1969
I remember this was taken at our CP along Highway 1 under FSB Tomahawk									Below: Summer 1970 from the bunker pulling guard duty in the city of Hue along the Perfume River. Notice on the "table", 2 firing devices for Claymores and a M72 LAW standing by for GP!

Top left: Somewhere in the area of Nuoc Ngot at our day site. We were conducting nightly squad sized ambush patrols in the area, probably early '70

I took this pic along some mountain trail during a "take 5"! L to R (No names): Our Redleg Forward Observer, Apache, and Winnie									Camp Eagle. Back Row L to R: Colorado with M79, Ed SooHoo, Bruce ? (Squad Ldr), Meachum? Front: Myself (KGow), and ??? I felt I should censor the poster, which colorfully proclaimed our distaste for communism!

Jan 1970 under FSB Tomahawk. Part of the squad with captured AK47 Rifles: L to R: LT, K Gow, L Rasmussen, ?, ?, "Colorado". The owners of the rifles were cropped out of this picture									B Company Area, Camp Eagle in Thua Thien Province South Vietnam 1969