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     1st Battalion 6th Infantry, United States Army
23rd Infantry Division        AMERICAL
REPUBLIC   OF  VIETNAM
198th Infantry Brigade
This site is dedicated to the soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, 198th Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division (AMERICAL), who fought and died in Vietnam.  This site contains numerous photos, documents, articles, stories, maps, etc. collected from both official and unofficial sources concerning combat in Vietnam by the soldiers of a US Army infantry battalion.
Click on the links listed above or the buttons for detailed information.
The 1st Battalion 6th Infantry served for 1,492 days of combat operations during the war in Vietnam.  [As a point of historical reference, only 335 days passed during WWII between the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day and the unconditional surrender of German military forces on 7 May 1945.]  During its first year of combat in Vietnam, over 100 soldiers from the Battalion were killed in action while hundreds more were wounded.  The brave soldiers of the 1st Battalion 6th Infantry left a legacy of sacrifice and dedicated service in Vietnam that will not be forgotten.

This site includes more than 90 HTML pages containing detailed historical information and over 350 official and unofficial photos.  Dozens of other photos dealing with tactical operations by the 1st Battalion 6th Infantry in Vietnam are available by active links.

Construction of this site began on 4 July 2000.  By mid-August, more than twenty former soldiers had contributed photos, articles, rosters, etc. to the site.  By the time the site was revised in early October, it had been visited with 2,579 "hits" on the web.  Since 10 October 2000 when the counter was reset, the home page had been "hit" more than 38,000 times (as of December, 2002).

Special thanks are due at this time to Les Hines, the ADVA Vietnam Historian, for his invaluable work on the AMERICAL Division ORLLs, and to Ray Tyndall and Dennis Linn (both B/1-6 Inf 1970-71) for their numerous photos.  While any one of us, individually, may not have much from that era that has not been lost, collectively we have a wealth of information and photos to share.  Even one picture, one order, one list of soldiers, or one story will add to the historical record of the unit.  The motto of the 1st Bn 6th Inf--Unity is Strength--clearly is visible as the content of this site grows from individual contributions of historical material.

For detailed information about combat operations by the AMERICAL Division in Vietnam, and links to other units, visit the Americal Division Veterans Association web site.
To make contributions of photos, articles, stories, documents, rosters, etc. to this site, or to comment or ask questions about the content, please contact Wayne R. Johnston (1st Bn 6th Inf, 1970-71) at wr9r@aol.com.
This site is best viewed with the AOL browser, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5+, or Netscape Navigator 6.0+.  The screen resolution for the display should be 800 x 600 or the preferred 1024 x 768.

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The contents of this site are copyrighted and may be used only if authorized by the individual author or contributor.
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FEBRUARY 2001

 

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