0574-VTN-12/2012
Michael S. Harper

[574-2] - Mike during the monsoon season, 1971. Saddled up and ready to move with 110 pounds of gear.

[574-3] - "Another Best Friend." Overflight of a Cobra gunship in the Fall of 1971

[574-4] - Mike crossing a swollen river during the monsoon season, 1971

[574-5] - Tom Novak from Buffalo, New York. Mike was his assistant gunner.

[574-6] - Big Jimmy Cox, of Laurel, Mississippi. Mike's assistant gunner for 4 or 5 months. Fall 1971

[574-7] - Fall 1971. Mike in a hammock. "This is how we slept most nights. Very comfortable once you get used to it."

[574-8] - Fall 1971. Catholic Mass in the field.

[574-9] - Fall 1971. Mike sitting in the door of a UH-1. "Enroute to our LZ."

[574-10] - Twenty miles west of Da Nang, Fall 1971. An artillery white phosphorus "marker" round explodes on a hill side zeroing in on the enemy.

[574-11] - Fall 1971. A Vietnamese mother and daughter.

[574-12] - Mike "returning from a late aftrnoon patrol. Thankfully it was uneventful as I still have approximately 450 rounds remaining." fall 1971.

[574-13] - Spring 1972. Shaving in the bush. Jim Bellar (left) and David ___?___

[574-14] - Mid-June 1972. Mike and another soldier: The day we learned we'd soon be leaving country. We were "short."

[574-15] - Jim Bellar as "point man" cutting throught the jungle foliage. Spring 1972.

[574-16] - Soldiers from "A" company on river patrol. Spring 1972.

[574-17] - Fire from a couple of Cobra helicopters "firing up the enemy at close quarters." Spring 1972

[574-18] - Mike with a .45 cal "grease gun."

[574-19] - Some soldiers during R & R at China Beach. Spring 1972.

[574-20] - Mike on patrol during the spring of 1972. "My daughter still wears the watch I have on my left wrist."

[574-21] - Spring 1972. "Another of a grunt's best friends - the Medivac chopper."

[574-22] - Jack Coor (CIB), Mike Harper (CIB), Col. Carleton Prothro, Richard Campbell (CIB). Early 2000's

[574-23] - Mike Harper, 2009

[574-24] - DD-214