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Larry Irwin
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BM3 Johnny Salmi's Photos, T-111-12

Courtesy of his son Don Salmi

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6.  7.  8. Sitting, front - right, BM3 Miller, standing, BM2 Don Gregerson in white t-shirt, ?, Mike O'brian 9. 10. 
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11.  12.  13. SN Bonacchi, Johnny Salmi 14. Don Gregerson, Boat Captain of T-111-12 15. Don Gregerson, Boat Captain of T-111-12
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16. Don Gregerson, Boat Captain of T-111-12 17. BM3 Miller and Johnny Salmi 18. Seated on center table, Salmi with (then) GMG2 Chester C. Stanley 19.  20. 
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21. Standing, left to right, Bob Pawlicki, ?, BM3 V.B. Jones, SN R.W. Cooper, ?, SN B.G. Craft, ?, ?, ?, RM3 Dave Raybell (me), SN A.J. Lindeman. Crouched, GMG2 Chester C. Stanley. Seated: ?. ?, ?. We were all waiting to get out of Dodge...I mean, Dong Tam, to catch the Freedom Bird home. What we were wearing was what we wore home. Everything else had pretty much rotted in Vietnam. 22.  23.  24. Same as 21 25. 
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31. Crew of T-111-1, Front: Johnny Salmi (white T), BM3 Miller. 2nd row, Bob Pawlicki, Mike Jasper, Mike O'Brien. Far back, Mike Hall 32.  33.  34. Pete Seitz on right, sitting. 35. 
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36. Salmi and BM2 Don Gregerson (Don Gregerson earned his Silver Star the hard way on 15 September, 1967) 37. M-91-3 38.  39.  40. 
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41.  42. Weapons Cache 43. Suspected VC 44.  45. 
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46. Johnny Salmi 47. Weapons Cache 48. Captured VC 49.  50. 
 

Thanks to Dave Raybell, M-111-3 for identifying many in these photos

  

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