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Mike Battery 4th Battalion 12th Marines Pictorial History
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Original 155 towed after landing in Vietnam August 1965. These towed howitzers were soon replaced with the newer M109sp howitzers.140mm rocket craterBill Coleman M 4/12Bill Relf M 4/12Joe Oldham walking through the mud and rain at Camp Carroll during Monsoon season...More Monsoon rain; notice the tents are not sandbagged above the cot level. That would soon change as enemy incoming began to make Carroll a consistant target.Charlie Dennis radio operatorDennis & DaltonFord - 4/12Gun 1 at Camp Carroll 1966
Photos provided by Joe Oldham 1966-67, Gary Gallentine 1965-66 & Charlie LeBlanc 1967-68
The Oldham family - 1995 R-L Joe's wife Sue, Joe with granddaughter, and two daughters.Joe & Sue Oldham at the "Traveling Wall"The "Traveling Wall" from a distance...Another view of the "Traveling Wall"The Wall...Christmas tree, Vietnam style...Gun 1 ammoTents - Gunner's row at Camp Carroll 1966Incoming at Camp Carroll during 1967
Joe Oldham at Camp Carroll in 1967Joe Oldham at camp Carroll in 1967John & Charlie working on their tan's at "sunny" Camp Carroll during 1967...John HuffmanLCU float October 1966
Continuing the LCU Float in 1966Firing the .50 cal machine gun...Dead waves...Continued...Maintinance tent at Camp CarrollCamp Carroll Maintinance tent for Mike 4/12...Joe Oldham 2151 - Camp Carroll 1966Early picture of Mike 4/12 firing old "Towed 155's"A jeep reended by another vehicle when the convoy came under attack...
Christmas - 1965L-R - Mike Dennis & Dave Clark looking over a jeep that hit a mine...Mike Battery Motor T section...Joe Oldham & unknown at Camp Carroll 1966Joe Oldham in front of Mike Battery 155sp. Joe worked in the battery maintinance section repairing tracks and other parts of the 155's so they remained in the field and active...Mike Battery's Gun 1 in action the summer of 1966...Another picture of Mike Battery's Gun 1 firing at Camp Carroll in the summer of 1966.Gun 1 at Camp Carroll in the summer of 1966.Mike Battery's Gun 1 in the field 1966.
Mike Battery's "Pappy" in October 1966.122 or 140mm rocket craters and hole at Camp Carroll 1967L-R - Unknown with Staff Sergeant Bryant at Camp Carroll.The "Six Holer" at Camp Carroll; a place of rest and reflection, a pause to drop a duce or two ;o)Tim Edgar of Mike 4/12 1966UnknownUnknown at Camp CarrollUnknown at Camp Carroll