You'll see scenes filmed along the roads between Da Nang and Camp Tien Sha -- driving through villages and countryside, past ships in the harbor, port activity, etc. The other important thing we had to do was to check the Red Beach causeway at 2400 hr. I wanted to go back and see that little girl before she died but all that next week I was to busy to get off early ( or maybe I was just to scared and heart broken). This combined attack, executed jointly by the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese People's Army, was a series of coordinated surprise attacks launched against both military and civilian targets. the place. risking my life in a really inadequate vehicle! Amphibious fuel lines were laid along the sea floor to storage tanks ashore at Red Beach Base Area, north of the city and the Marines' Marble Mountain Air Facility to the south. DaNang aerial photograph It was reported in an Email that National Geographic Magazine somewhere between Jan. 1967 and June 1968 had an aerial photograph of DaNang with enough detail to get the CIA uptight. She giggled a bit (talk On May 13,1968 we took 6 122mm rocket rounds as explained in my May 15,1968 leter. Chu Lai Base Area. This is the near miss at our Post office. I do web work now and I want to help you fix your articles so people can read them easier.I'm not asking to get paid I just want to do something for you. The Magazine was found If I wanted something I had to have Bet or Ski pick it up. The harbor defense unit used landing craft, picket boats and 16 feet (4.9m) Boston Whalers to monitor and protect the maritime traffic. It was kind of like the work orders I got. My work hours were 0600 to 1800 which made it impossible to use any of the base services! We were not part of the Marine Civil Affair but worked independent of them. So I would start the mornings dancing around the job site until the sniper was done and then we would get to work. Gallons of Herbicides Sprayed. The firemen loaded foam canister on a mule and were able to get to the UH-1 and finally put the fire out. Phu Loi Airbase Information by: Daniel Hanley, Phu Loi Airbase is 30 mile North of Saigon.I was with A Company, 1st Aviation Battalion, Infantry Division, October 1965-1966. because of all the flares in the mountains next to the base.
Naval Support Activity, Da Nang 1966-67 "Cruise Book" - eCRATER Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. During our night watch I would lock the office door ,lay my M-16, (locked and loaded) on the desk pointing at the door. They were all in alignment with our generators. I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon. Some times she would get so drunk that she couldn't walk anymore, was really funny watch her four legs going in different directions! reportedf to the USS Permit (SSN-594) at Mare Island, and got out a They had absolutely nothing and were dependent on the charity of other refuges in Dog Patch. It had been built the end of April so was brand new. John arrived here on November 21, 1968 and left December 22, 1969, thirteen months later. say I rarely ventured onto the left I cried to myself on the way back to the base. The Doc narrated as he worked, what he was doing, what he was going to do, when I should be prepared for the farmer to go ballistic! Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. I actually took the class in 1965 but at that time you had to be 18 years old to get a Scuba Certification. The iStock design is a trademark of iStockphoto LP. a small cargo plane in the middle of the night, all I You'll see scenes filmed along the roads between Da Nang and Camp Tien Sha -- driving through villages and countryside, past ships in the harbor . Level the frames and tie them to the stakes and I would have my concrete forms complete. Total Area Sprayed (sq. very first day of war. Mountain. He left me sitting there on the steps saying he would send Beerworth down at 1700 hr to get me settled in.
44 Declassified Vietnam War Photos The Public Wasn't Meant To See There are other memories of my time working at the clinic. They were pissed off at him because they were sent out there that night when they had already done a day patrol, and they wanted to scare the crap out of him. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. Don't try to cross in to the base as there were mines. In a while the nurse and doc came out to get the little girl and I volunteered to hold the little girl if they had other things to do. [4]:2[2], In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. Detachment Dong Ha - 1967 - 1970. person who was awake had access to the keys to the jeep. Coate would send dog food care packages to Judy. After our three big generators and fuel tank were up and running that area became a target for the VC. Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. shower heads came out from the side thought about was the airbase in Danang was under attack, the upper left hand part of the pic. to LCU-1498 (same routine). If there was any heavy weather and to many buffer pads were jumping out I would have to go back to the hooch and roust out a work crew. Retro. PTF base at after working hours. Administration Armed assigned Assistant August Back base boats Camp Tien Sha CAPT Captain cargo Center CHARLES Chief of Staff combat Commander Control Corps craft Cua Viet DaNang DAVID. There are over 500 chapters that provide fellowship, volunteer opportunities and community service. The after noon of May 14, I had a work order to make escape doors out of the back of FLC (Force Logistics Command) administration building. You are a builder so Beerworth or Yost will be who you report too." The map I sent you is how I remember that corner and pretty balanced oversteer under power out of the corners. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! We were also vulnerable to sappers . I was in Danang less than a month when the Vietcong used rockets to attack the Danang Air Base for the first time in the war, on the morning of February 27. I was told to put it between the farmers teeth with the ends sticking out of the sides of his mouth and I was to gently but firmly hold on to the ends of the stick and hold his head down. This is my Poem about the farmer who stepped on the mine. So over time it was easier to just not know anyone. Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. There was a bunker there. [2] Yes that's me smiling up from the 122mm rocket crater. There were no boat parts in supply You'll see the plumes of smoke, fireballs and falling debris from the explosion of the DaNang ammo dump on April 27, 1969 -- and close ups of some of the damage to buildings and barracks. I was new in country and still in John Wayne mode. Suprise, suprise, Camp Tien Sha, Vietnam. In the early days the security perimeter of the base was only about 50 feet from our shop and was not very well guarded. It was about the most insane thing I had ever experienced and was hard for my mind to grasp what had just happened. A half inch pipe [4]:8. in Subic and got a pro hair cut. There was one thing that bothered me about Tien Sha. On Friday I left the shop at 1800hr and went to the Children's Clinic. I would have to wait a few more days for that to start. About a mile out the crew started kicking boxes out the doors. when I was there. The Seabee construction crews he is referring to was my crew. For the time being they were stashed in my hooch and on May 24, Karl Voiles spent his first day assembling beds. Pretty big load for The nurse was carrying a little girl about 4 years old. Their shirt tail were hanging out and sleeves not rolled up (Marine style). On Friday May 17 I was sent out on another job. She did not cry but there were big tears running down her checks and every once in a while she would let out a loud shuddering sigh! There was no time off just the same 12 hr work shift. Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. I finished the shower and got Hard at work in the Investigations Office, Camp Tien Sha annex, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. First came the steps and as soon as that was finished I helped the Navy doctor and Vietnamese nurse move in a big grey office desk and an open book shelf unit. the two boat docks at DaNang. Apart from some shopping highlights and historical sights, the main reason for most travelers staying here is its proximity to the well-known My Khe Beach, Lang Co Beach, Hoi An and My Son. Modern. ] [ Base Drawing Legend ]. Donations for May. Most of the time if you were [3]:2, By 1969 NSA Danang was the Navy's largest overseas shore command and third largest supply depot after Norfolk and Oakland Naval Supply Depot and Camp Tien Sha had grown to accommodate over 6000 personnel. There are 186 crew members registered for the Naval Support Activity Danang. Electrician CN (E-3) Pat Brown, Builder CN (E-3) Craig Taylor, Builder 3Rd Class Calabresi. On May 15 I had finished 6 or 8 escape doors. that's one of our generators upper left. There was only one hospital bed and a couple cots in the building at that time.
We stopped work and watched. One about half way from knee to foot and the other just below the knee! So back around to the front of the hut and to work on the awning . Closer and closer, the engine starting to whine! The green building upper right is the hooch that I built for our Vietnamese workers. Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. Technicaly they were out side the perimeter so were not recorded, I guess. from Danang, Republic of Vietnam. Some of the rocket attacks were on Camp Books (FLC) . I got in the habit of sleeping with my right foot hanging off the edge of my cot so I would always be pointing towards the bunker. The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto trucks instead of offloading into Lighters while anchored in the harbor. BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major ports, a city rich in history. ( the rules for Camp Books were that to be off base you had to have a weapon). There wasn't much blood ,just a small whelp where the bullet went in.
Moore recalls serving in Vietnam | News | muskogeephoenix.com Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. The Brief. We were among the first units to arrive after ti was secured by Armor and Artillery. This comment has been removed by the author. This is the day I started my real job. The Marines in that ambush had fired on me to scare me because they thought I was the duty officer making the rounds. The Gunny Sargent assured me that the cost of the 782 gear would come out of their final pay check! Some times a lot of shit happened . The Some time before the end of the month we got three more guys in . The guys loaded up my tool box and gave me an M-16 so I would be able to walk back to the base later. Biologist), and chaired the Diving Safety Board. Danang Vietnam 1966 1967 Camp Tien Sha was an old French army base. I didn't know it then but that was my last good meal for a long time! Camp Tien Sha Stock Photo - Download Image Now - Vietnam, Military Base, 1968. Just as I was putting on the spring door closer a ARVN military police jeep pulled up in front (they were halling ass through the loose sand) Two White mice jumped out, went to the back of the jeep and carried an old farmer from the jeep into the clinic. Under the supervision of the Doc , the Vietnamese nurse and I got him tied down. Naval Support Activity Danang or NSA Danang was a United States Navy logistics support organization located in Danang, South Vietnam active from October 1965 to April 1972. And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. Published October 25, 2017 Updated April 22, 2021 These Vietnam War photos taken by U.S. Army photographers reveal a side of the conflict that few people have ever seen. I didn't understand at that time the danger of rocket attacks. naval reserves just before graduating from high school in 1962. line. The kids were always hanging around and the best way to keep them from stealing was to befriend them by giving them candy. It was good for our working relation ship to do them favors so that I could count on them to perform for me when I really needed them. Once I went "over" Da Nang Cluster. limits and no one ever said a word to me about these activities. Anniversary story of his trip back I was driving on the perimeter road with the dry storage ASM wall on my right.
Danang Scene 1966-67 by Ron Holder (60) | DA NANG 66-67 - Ca | Flickr They had been covered with poncho liners but they had blown off. Then walk the length of pier re-installing any buffer pads that might have come out. What has stuck in my mind all these years is how much that bullet hole in the blond guys head looked like the bullet hole in the back of the head of a very large possum that I had shot in the back of the head when I was about 16 years old. The building to the right of the Post office was the base exchange and it took a shit load of shrapnel from this hit. I hated that phone, radio, air conditioning and black coffee! loading the LSTs and loading onto trucks. They never did a direct hit on the fuel tank but the got damn close several times! I held the door open for them. Danang. I wondered how I would feel if someone burned down my home ,killed my dad and took my little brother away to a hospital. Here in Vietnam with the advanced gangrene she was going to die and there was nothing that could be done! As I remember It I have nothing but respect for those that were. At that time the base fir truck showed up. The new pier facility allowed deep-draft ocean-going vessels to unload cargo directly onto trucks instead of offloading into Lighters while anchored in the harbor. The shop doors were always open and a light on in the shop. The causeway was a floating pier that extended about a 100 yards into Da Nang bay and was used to off load ammunition and bombs. I am on the far left. The wounded man was the Mess Sargent who was the only one at the mess hall at the time.
Danang U.S. Naval Support Activity 1964-1973 - MRFA Spent four years in college, and achieved QM3, and qualified in He told me step by step every detail. Message is: I am looking for members that served at Tien Sha Ramp in 1968 through 1969. The station hospital begun in 1965 had treated over 21,000 casualties, 44,000 nonbattle patients and one million outpatients flowing in from the hostile and disease-ridden I Corps environment. By TET of 1968 most of the rural Vietnamese had been moved into relocation camps (Dog Patch). Only 364 more days to go! Alan on base whole story here. Our office was up stairs. care of the base. Sure. those Nastie's were fun boats! The doctors at the Hoa Kahn Clinic were all Navy I think mostly off the hospital ships, they would volunteer for the clinic and rotate out every week. K-9 Security Unit-1 (Navy Sentry Dog Unit) Det Cua Viet 1st Naval LARC Division. She smelled horrible! [1], U.S. NSA Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965 under the operational control of Commander, III MAF. The two guys shot in the skivvy house that night were, Pvt. I had my parents send me my Scuba diving lesson book and in what little spare time we could find we would hold Scuba study sessions. Those care packages and her letters help keep me going when ever times got really tough! Finally, the harsh northeast monsoon made cargo operations at Danang and throughout I Corps hazardous and difficult during the winter months.[1]. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. Jeep parts? No. VVA's goals . I did spend plenty of time on Marine firebases around the Da Nang-Phu Bai area and spent time at a camp located at Phu Loc. Learn more about royalty-free images or view FAQs related to stock photos.
U S Naval Support Activity Danang Vietnam 1969 Yearbook - Worthpoint Download this Camp Tien Sha photo now. Everyone was busy as hell and I didn't have any idea as to what was going on. this place, wearing only "shower I joined the Navy Reserve and went to Viet Nam anyway. [3]:8, In April 1972 all US Navy facilities in Danang were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.[4]. The advantage was that I got a whole extra year of dive time at Hoods Canal with Pett and got to do deep water dives with him ( 120 to 140 feet) in the summer of 1966. Khoi Tran and Hong Th Hin faved this 3,723 views 2 faves 0 comments Taken on March 17, 2017 Some rights reserved Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED there. time does that. snakes and other items of entertainment. didnt get shot at and we safely landed and taxied off the run way. just out of the picture on the right. In this pic the enlisted two parts, right and left, I have to good times in the "duty jeep". This article incorporatespublic domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. [2] The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1700 men, together with a barber shop, post exchange and milk plant. Often several rockets would have gone off before I even knew we were under attack ! He always seemed happy and smiling and the whole time he was around the clinic I never heard him speak a single work. vietnamandmilitary $6.00 Original, In Wrapper P-38 Vietnam War vietnamandmilitary $175.00 Naval Support Activity, Da Nang 1968 Cruise Book vietnamandmilitary Seller Information Seller vietnamandmilitary Contact Seller The usual row of sinks, toilets and I shook my head when the CO sent you to Red Beach to exercise your idealism, knowing no one would want you there in the CB team already established. enough for me. embarrassed but she didn't seem to All though I grew up on a farm butchering animals to put in our freezer every year this was something different for me. From March to July 1965, III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) troops delivered supplies to the units in the field while the Seventh Fleet ran port operations. navy was the hair thing. If they were caught they were punished by court marshal and were busted one pay grade. If you are able to extract the The ESSO fuel plant from the north east side where we were snorkeling. - 300 dpi - RGB, Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that content. The Doc told me to help tie the farmer down to the desk. She would pull out handfuls of her hair and pound herself with clenched fists! On the night of February 23, 1969, we held off an attack on the Da Nang Air Base by a large VC force. Nights in Vietnam were uncomfortable at best. It was just after 1700 so I was good. I was going to start building my own hooch so I would have a place to sleep ! click here or click "back" until you . configuration it would hold about 10 people. It is just to heart breaking to see the suffering of the children in this world who are caught in a war! such a small vehicle. They were simply ghettos with poor sanitation , communal water supply, no roads or electricity.