LZ BRILLO PAD
This Photo taken by Bill Boe is displayed in the 4th Infantry Division Museum
NVA weapons & equipment left behind after 2nd night-long siege
Pulling enemy 51 cal. machine gun bullets from sandbags. NVA Bamboo Bangalore Torpedo packed with C4.
View from inside a bunker on Brillo Pad after being hit by NVA heavy mortar round.
Early
Photos of LZ Brillo Pad:
Shots taken before interconnecting
trenches were completed around the perimeter.
New photos from Barry Dwyer
Firing in Support of Brillo Pad
Memories, pictures and info: courtesy of Steve Sipos, 8th Artillery
Recorded radio transmissions from the action on the night of 15 May 68, posted in an autoloading ASF Streaming Audio Format. ASF Files can be heard on all Internet Explorer 5+ and AOL browsers and many other, but not all browsers. For those with Netscape, simple go on-line with Netscape and then open the Internet Explorer browser and type or copy and paste the URL at the top of tne browser: http://1-14th.com/MemSteveSiposTape.html and it should play for you. Our server currently does not support the larger Real Media files, but I'm working on changing that. Be advised, the tape was posted in its entirety. After automatically loading, the first 50 seconds is almost inaudible. The remaining 20 minutes is actual FDC radio traffic from that night, giving us all an idea of the work that went on in the Fire Direction Centers to save our hides so many, many times.
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