was in “Rolling Thunder, The Vietnam Experience” main

exhibition museum platoon tent. The scene recreated a

portion of the South and East walls of the teamhouse circa

1969.

It comprised of two mannequins showing the two most

popular uniforms worn by US Special Forces soldiers in

Vietnam: the tiger stripe and the jungle utility uniform. 

Display photos from J-L Delauve and Jim Fleet

This depict one of this long and lonely evening spend in the teamhouse. The commo Sgt in tigers

stripe uniform has one of the handset from the two PRC25 in his hand and has just given a Situation

Report to the C-team. Every night one member of the A-team would be on radio watch either from the

commo bunker or from the teamhouse. One of his buddy a Sgt First Class has decided to keep him

company for a little while and is reading the latest copy of Playboy magazine over a cup of coffee.

Like every night the heat is quite oppressive and the old wall mounted fan is purring away blowing a

warm breeze. The only other back ground noises for the moment  are radio traffic from other camps

and songs from Army Forces Vietnam Network, the US Army radio station playing on a old radio.

From time to time the peaceful night may be interrupted by passing Helicopters or fast movers on

there way to support nearby operations.

If you study carefully the two photos above you will see that many of  similar originals items from

the teamhouse have been obtained or recreated, more on this in the following pages.

Martha Raye Visit, Nov 1969

Ha Thanh website

Hosted at the War and Peace show, Beltring, Kent, England, 22nd-26th July 2009

This display is dedicated to US Special Forces MSG T Sosniak & PFC R Traster

both killed in Ha Thanh Teamhouse by a direct hit in August 1968