The Vietnam-era MACV-SOG Seiko is the OG “Raider Rolex”: this is a vintage Seiko Automatic Watch 6619-8060 Vietnam SOG-MACV watch from approximately 1967. The following information was posted by a very interesting Instagram account called Watches of Espionage (@watchesofespionage). It’s a Social Media Account That Doesn’t Suck©®TM and thus is part of the FYSA files (specifically one dealingContinue reading “MACV-SOG Seiko Watch”
Category Archives: Vietnam War
Vietnam War From Inside The Attack Helicopter
Peter J. Wilson SOG MIA
From out pal, Bud Gibson The last picture of Mr. Pete Wilson, ( back to camera) taken as they prepped at the Dak To launch site. Mr. Pete would fall back to help a wounded ‘yard and setup a defensive perimeter for the remaining men of the RT to make a tactical retreat to getContinue reading “Peter J. Wilson SOG MIA”
SOG’s First Medal of Honor.
SOG’s First Medal of Honor. On the 7th of February 1967 a B-52 Arc Light strike had just finished hitting a major enemy controlled are in Laos. Some one in MACV had thought up the idea of the Bomb Damage Assessment. That is, putting troops right on top of the freshly hit target to seeContinue reading “SOG’s First Medal of Honor.”
OPERATION BLACKJACK 41C
From Richard H. Dick James 55 years ago, 13 May 1967, I was the Staff Sergeant Demolition Sergeant on Detachment A-422 (Vinh Gia), 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), in the western Mekong Delta (IV Corps) of South Vietnam, 2,000 meters from the Cambodian border. I was on my 6-month voluntary extension in Vietnam. The MobileContinue reading “OPERATION BLACKJACK 41C”
Captured PAVN Flag
I thought I would show this to you guys before I sent it off. A bring back PAVN ( NVA) flag capture from a Vietnam vet. The owner of SOGsite is helping the 5th Special Forces Group at Ft Cambell put together a SOG display at their museum and I am donating it along withContinue reading “Captured PAVN Flag”
OPERATION BABYLIFT: THE DOOMED FLIGHT OF A C-5A GALAXY TRANSPORTING VIETNAMESE ORPHANS, APRIL 4, 1975
April 3, 1975, in the final, chaotic days of the Vietnam War, US President Gerald Ford ordered an urgent mission of mercy called “Operation Babylift”. Its goal: to rescue Vietnamese orphans from the chaos of the war and take them to the US. The mission got off to a tragic start: In the initial flight,Continue reading “OPERATION BABYLIFT: THE DOOMED FLIGHT OF A C-5A GALAXY TRANSPORTING VIETNAMESE ORPHANS, APRIL 4, 1975”
The Vz58 In Vietnam
You never know what turned up in the Vietnam war. In this case the Vz58. I have to wonder how they kept the users supplied with a rifle that could not use the same mags as the Tye56/AK47. I asked the members of the SOG group if any of them recall seeing one and noneContinue reading “The Vz58 In Vietnam”
Interview With Lynne M Black Jr. US Army Special Forces & SOG Veteran
For this post we have a very special guest. Below is an interview with Lynne Black Jr. I asked Mr. Black if he would be so kind to submit to the torture of me asking him a lot of annoying questions he has been asked a million times before and he very graciouslyContinue reading “Interview With Lynne M Black Jr. US Army Special Forces & SOG Veteran”
18th Division RVN
In the last months of the Vietnam war, virtually all US support to the Republic of South Vietnam had been vindictively cut and PAVN forces from the north seemed to be ready to roll over the southern country in an unstoppable wave. All commentators and military experts predicted there would be little resistance. They hadContinue reading “18th Division RVN”
Scattered Shots 