2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division
327th Infantry Regiment "Yankee Jim" Simchera 327th Infantry Regiment
   

"Yankee Jim" Simchera

A Company 1969 - 1970

yankeejim@327infantry.org

 

 

"Yankee Jim" Simchera. Spouse, Patti. Daughter, Vanessa. Grandson, Andrew. Originally from Saddle Brook, N.J. Now living in the Florida Panhandle. Served with 2nd Platoon, A Co. 2/327th Sept. 69-70.

  

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Yankee Jim

Jim Simchera

Fire Base Los Banos 1970

Yankee Jim & Kit Carson Scout

Yankee Jim outside F.B. Tomahawk

Tonight my little buddy,
YOU take up the point!

Nuoc Ngot just outside
Fire Base Tomahawk

Jim Simchera & LOH crash

 

 Yankee Jim and his Gun

LOH crash while trying to explode a 500 lb bomb 

 

Yankee Jim - 1970
Yankee Jim with his long rifle


Left - I still think that this was the oldest 60 in Nam. Wish that duct tape was invented then. I would have used it to hold the Buttstock on. Oh this baby could sing, even as old as she was. She must have come over on the boat.