C Company, 3rd Battalion
Cambodia - May 1970


Check out the Unclassified Official Account of the 3-506 for 1970 article for
more details on the Cambodia operations in which the 3rd BN participated.


US Army photos from Carolyn Bender (sister of the late CPT Robert L. Acklen, Jr.)
Viet Cong Flag
C Company Commander, CPT Robert L. Acklen, Jr., holds the Viet Cong flag
found in the captured weapons cache site in Cambodia, May 1970. 1SG Theofilo
Macias is on the far left; SFC Bruce Adams is behind Macias.

Captured Weapons

An unidentified Charlie Company soldier counts, tags, and stacks captured
weapons in the LZ prior to the weapons being airlifted out of Cambodia.

On May 12, C Company, 3rd BN had discovered a large weapons cache.
Among the captured equipment were 760 small arms, 65 CSW, 101x 57mm
RR rounds, 222x B-40 rounds, 20x 75mm rounds, 525x 82mm rounds, 8,100
SA ammo, 155 pair of NVA binoculars, and about a thousand grenades and
mines of various types and descriptions.



Directing Search
(R): CPT Robert L. Acklen, Jr. directs the troops of Charlie Company searching
a hootch area in Cambodia near the captured weapons cache site. On the left is
SFC Bruce Adams.


Grenade Handles

On May 14, near the captured weapons cache site, Charlie Company found a
box with grenade handles, etc. in a hootch area 4 miles inside of Cambodia.


Cambodia LZ, May 1970
PFC Michael L. Marks, 1st Platoon, attaches an American flag
to a stump in the LZ in Cambodia from which the captured cache
site weapons were airlifted out by CH-47 Chinook helicopters.


Back to South Vietnam

1LT Francis F. Patalano and PFC Michael L. Marks (holding flag), both from
1st Platoon, board slicks in Cambodia to pull back to South Vietnam.


Ban Me Thout

FSB on a hill east of Ban Me Thout (?) where the 3rd BN
of the 506th was sent after pulling out of Cambodia.


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