Album 32 - Vaughn Banting


Merrit on APC	Cooking with C-4	L.T. me & Merrit VC	Dwight Stone	Orchid	An orchid

Clear LZ series 3	me & Benji whole_photo gum removed	Collecting water from stream	Rifting	assistant RTO	Page from V.C.pack

Vaughn Banting	Cymbidium orchid	Leach crossing	Collage	Donut dolly	Water Fall - Banting

VC bunker base of tree	Donky dick used to keep camera dry	VC captured documents	VC cooking area liquid speed	VCf base Wwith Kid & Bradshaw	VC bunker W/M-16

color unshaven	VC bunker during new years celabration	Loach front view	Tabe - Carson scout	Banting on APC	Banting

Dustoff	Loach	Resupply	Native cymbidium orchid	Bunker at Husky (1)	Rifting

Bust of Banting	Cooking with C4	RR	Husky Tower	Breakfast	Banting, Captossi, Rodel, Folse, Sgt Mack

Prayer	Banting at bunker 3	C-rations	Shaving	Orphans	Vaughn

Two little girls	Gift shop at Husky	Stream 2	Orchid2	Vaughn, SgtNeal	Rubber Tree

Orchid 1	Donut Dolly standing

     Vaughn Banting was a grunt with Charlie Company 2/12 from 1970 thru 1971. After his discharge Vaughn returned to his horticulture career and started what was to become a highly successful horticultural services company. Vaughn was a member of the National Bonsai Foundation and had lectured on bonsai around the world. Some of his Bonsai trees are on display at the National Arboretum where there is an atrium dedicated to him. Vaughn and his wife Gayle made their home in Louisiana.
     During guard duty on missions Vaughn would compose haiku or poetry in his head and then commit them to paper at first light. He mailed them to his mother who would type them and mail them back to him. Some of Vaughn's writing can be found on this site by clicking here. http://www.vlbanting.com/
     A small historical fact: Vaughn was wounded in the last firefight ever fought by the 2/12 Infantry Regiment. Vaughn passed away in 2008 (see TAPS)


View from convoy	Viet ox cart mangrove	Temple	Viet Plantation House	Convoy sitting with LT	Loading up

Roadside market	Load of bananas	Another market place	Plantation House	Ox cart	Back from convoy ride

Convoy & Jeep	Convoy ride


Unhooking water trailer	Running to Chinook	Setting down the trailer	Loading up	Taking mail to chinook	Cobra gunship

Praying	Loach rear view	Hook Up	Cobra	Chinook front	Cobra setting down

Resupply with CH47


Pumping water	View of Coast 2	Tuy Hou base	Tuy Hoa beach	Rubber from the air	View of Coast 3

Rice Paddies	Ruins	Village	Small Hamlet	Bananas	Fishing boats

Tuy Hoa town	Tuy Hou watch towers	Bean Can on MG	Temple 2	Tuy Hou watch towers front	Chopper cockpit 1

View of coast 1	Door Gunner	Firebase	Dangling foot	In the chopper	Miles of jungle

Chopper Pilot and map	In country R&R	Budha rock


VC indoctrination classroom	VC cooking area liquid spee	VC stuff, LT Williams	VC captured bunker with mortar	Bunker 2	VC opening bunker complex

Bunker 1	VC trail marker	The Kid and Bradshaw	VC bunker base of big tree	VC wood drying shed	VC captured documents

VC gas mask	Stuff from VC pack	Tabe Kit Carson scout