documentation

Marines of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion

1st Marine Division at the Joan of Arch Church

after the battle.

Sergeant Gonzalez platoon was in Alpha Company.

Credit: Museum of History - Edinburg TX.

Picture: Eliana Calderon

                                         

Gravestone of Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez

Hillcrest Memorial, Edinburg, Texas

Credit : Eliana Calderon 

 

North Vietnamese B-40 Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) non functional.

Circa 1968

Derived from the Soviet RPG-2 ROCKET

propelled grenade was fired from a hand held launcher.

A B-40 felled Sgt. Gonzalez

MOSTH Collection

Donor:Dr. Scott Garrett.

Marine Corps guidon or unit flag,from Alpha Company, First Battalion, First Marine Division

Fleet Marine Force,circa 1968

On january 31,1968 it remained at Phu Bai

when the Marines left the Hue

MOSTH Collection

Museum of history -Edinburg tx.