Mike & H&S Companies 

Third Battalion, Fifth Marines

Veterans of the Vietnam War
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Curtis Batten

Row 1Batten and Willie Reveria both to pooped to pop.jpg (11959 bytes) Batten boot camp pic.jpg (15861 bytes) Batten Countless chopper operation.jpg (11953 bytes) Batten Disembarking chopper.jpg (29321 bytes)

Row 2Batten facing camera.jpg (36171 bytes) Batten Friend or foe.jpg (32451 bytes) Batten Going up Hill 1192.jpg (27271 bytes) Batten HaiVan Pass looking from the south.jpg (22210 bytes)

Row 3Batten Hill 1192.jpg (33215 bytes) Batten Marine K-9.jpg (37722 bytes) Batten Muts at HaiVan Pass Railroad station.jpg (37921 bytes) Batten Ontos on Operation Essex.jpg (38913 bytes)

Row 4Batten sewing pants with needle and thread from Doc Bowman.jpg (9751 bytes) Batten Unknown Marine with South China Sea in background.jpg (28196 bytes) Batten Unknown Marines 1st night going up Hill 1192.jpg (37487 bytes) Batten Viet family and their home.jpg (32084 bytes)

Row 5Batten Vietnameese family and home.jpg (32986 bytes) Batten Water irrigation system.jpg (35410 bytes) Batten We all liked them friend or foe.jpg (44713 bytes) Batten Willie Riveria and unknown.jpg (27915 bytes)
BattenMaMa son.jpg (39454 bytes)

Row 1: From left, Curt and Willie Riveria completely pooped; Curt's boot camp picture; 2 pictures of choppers on an operation, the second is a disembarkment.

Row 2: Curt facing the camera, in the bush; a kid (friend or foe?); going up Hill 1192; Hai Van Pass looking from the south.

Row 3: Hill 1192; a K-9 german shepherd; mutts playing at the Hai Van Pass railroad station; Ontos on Operation Essex.

Row 4: Curt sewing his pants with needle and thread borrowed from Doc Bowman; Unknown Marine with South China Sea in background; Unknown Marine the first day of the climb up Hill 1192 (May 1968); A vietnamese family at home.

Row 5: A vietnamese family in front of their home; Water irrigation system; three kids; Willie Riveria and an unknown Marine.

Bottom picture:  Mamasan.