Her husband was an ARVN soldier who had been killed. Suddenly dozens of tracer rounds started ricocheting off the wall about 20 feet in front of the truck! U.S. So there I would be for over a week trying to keep the mosquitoes off of me by covering with the sheet and putting my head in the pillow case. It is also one of the top international surfing destinations. 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. We took good care of Judy and she ate very well, We would get stake and chicken from the mess hall and She also loved to drink beer. side was a barge with a sign. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain. right , Huan one of my carpenters. Nights in Vietnam were uncomfortable at best. Tracers were bouncing all over in front of the truck. One night I was called out for some lights on the west perimeter. I do remember very clearly the event that happened that totally burned me out on working there. Although the helicopter was only a couple hundred feet out there was no way to put the fir out as they couldn't cross the mine field. Necessarily, more is lost to time than is remembered. Lance Corporal James D Feucht (cause of death,misadventure). After a couple rocket and mortar attacks my brain never went completely to sleep. Target audience. In these years, U.S. Army Vietnam alone retrograded over 671,000 short tons of supplies. Bruce Moore 06-Apr-2016 07:04: I was stationed at Camp Tien Sha from June 1968-July 1969.,I was a BU3 attached to the US Naval Support Activities Danang.I lived in barracks #35 which was on the backside of Camp Tien Sha.I was in barracks #35 when the Rocket and mortar attack began.we had a material storage yard directly behind the barracks that was hit with incoming rounds.I also, as a . It took until 2000 hours to finish that first slab. The Marines broke out in laughter. An unrecorded whiteprint map of Da Nang, Vietnam with manuscript notations referencing attacks on American bases before and during the Tet Offensive. Here are the Activity reports for May 1968 for the Marines in my AO (area of operation) . The camp was quickly expanded to include 25 new barracks able to accommodate an additional 1700 men, together with a . Detachment Phu Bai - 1965 -1970. Off we went to the supply yard at one of the SeaBee battalions, while we were there we stopped for a quick lunch at the Navy mess hall. As such a small group we couldn't do the standard Navy 4 hour watch. You are a builder so Beerworth or Yost will be who you report too." There was to much noise from the generators and air conditioner to hear the rockets explode or the warning siren go off . The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. (Actually, I rode in a truck.) It had been built the end of April so was brand new. Go through their front gate then out their back gate to the causeway. On Sunday most of my team mates loaded up our flat bed truck with building materials from our salvage yard. Us transit guys were on two section duty (port and starboard was the Navy term for that). Ray Norton. U.S. I took all the materials that I thought I would need to build the cement forms for my strong backs. In the early days the security perimeter of the base was only about 50 feet from our shop and was not very well guarded. I actually took the class in 1965 but at that time you had to be 18 years old to get a Scuba Certification. It was a Saturday, perhaps we were finishing up the cook shed. On May 15 I had finished 6 or 8 escape doors. Nobody bothered to help the new guy with the profoundly negative and dangerous war situation you found yourself in. It even included a week in Coronado, a week at Pendleton (weapons training), ands a week at Whidby Island (E&E, and SERE. And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. Dearest Rita, I just finished a quick letter to my folks first one since I've been here. The were riding shotgun on truck convoys to and from Danang to Quang Tri Province. Great Discounts & More! This is the first Poem that I wrote in Vietnam and is about the two marines killed in the skivvy house. Soon there were Marines all over the place. Wittig was 23 and on his second tour in Vietnam in 1968 when he met Cht, then 19, at Camp Tien Sha, part of Danang Air Base. I had to make a quick exit when the patients got excited when I walked towards the main ward! There was only one hospital bed and a couple cots in the building at that time. In Feb 1973, evacuated Danang to San Miguel . I went out and sat on my toolbox and thought about what I had just experienced. Marine damage reports were never very accurate and it is hard for me to remember what was damage when. This is our new Chief Builder. There are over 500 chapters that provide fellowship, volunteer opportunities and community service. Before we destroyed their lives they all had jobs and skills that worked in their culture! Then walk the length of pier re-installing any buffer pads that might have come out. Our shop the day we put up our sign and officially became Area Work Center #5. As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. LCM is up to port side of barracks craft. The ESSO fuel plant from the north east side where we were snorkeling. After a short rest to pull my self together I went back and finished putting the door spring on and about that time one of my team mates picked me up and took me back to the shop. Da Nang East. Vietnam Shortimer Calendar, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. Well sure I heard about it and even saw them down at 1st MPs. He praised me for staying calm and I had done good then he said I should go outside and sit down as I was looking a little green around the gills! A sad day because we were no longer a Seabee Team ! MCB . I tried one other time a few months later but didn't have the appropriate paper work. Port bow of the barracks craft shows no. APL-30 and dock at Da Nang harbor. The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. It is long gone. The helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. Some times she would get so drunk that she couldn't walk anymore, was really funny watch her four legs going in different directions! (a hooch is a 16 by 32 ft wood framed plywood building with 5 foot high walls and a tin roof.) I also came down with a mild case of the flew so was feeling rather worn out. Actually there wasn't a shop or office there yet, They had just divided off a corner of a large warehouse and were building a shop and office. She would be down on her hands and knees crying and waling. . I didn't know it then but that was my last good meal for a long time! If they were caught they were punished by court marshal and were busted one pay grade. He seemed totally comfortable and relaxed. History [ edit ] Following the initial landing of Marines in South Vietnam on 8 March 1965, the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (9th MEB) established their headquarters in an old French Army compound on the western edge of Da Nang Air Base . Dock area at Da Nang harbor. and I was just finishing up the door. I turned 20 years old and of coarse it went un- noticed although I had gotten a care package from Annett Burrel, a couple surfing magazines from my brother Jay and a birthday card from my girl friend Linda! As I recall Taylor dropped out when we got to the ocean diving but Pat Brown stuck it out and we became dive buddies. Bombardier. We had no black out lights on our trucks so we would have been any easy target for anyone who decided that they were going to kill us! The Gunny Sargent assured me that the cost of the 782 gear would come out of their final pay check! Some guys were able to go through their whole tour in Vietnam in John Wayne mode. while we were starting the wall framing we heard the sound of a UH-1 helicopter. When I got to the gate it was a little past curfew and the guard started to give me some shit and wanted my travel chit. I believe that on May 21 we had hits to the sick bay which was a big rebuild job. On Tuesday May 14 I finished my hooch and settled into the corner right inside the door. The main supply base for the Marines in I Corp was at Tien Sha near the coast in Da Nang. Sometimes we could be called out 2 or 3 times in a night. meal in Vietnam was roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, green peas, 2 large iwas in the 1097th med boat co. dongtam,vietnam 1968 towed 3rd 34th artery barges up down the canels moble riverine force 9th inf divion, caption wild was incharge Don't try to cross in to the base as there were mines. 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. I held the door open for them. I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. Because I was just getting situated it was just mass confusion for me . I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! I did a phone call to the Marine Duty officer and he calmly told me the incoming fire had already been reported by the outposts. Unfortunately when we got there it was closed for one hour for lunch and Coate did not have the time to hang around. To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! Friday was an interesting day. We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. It's claim to fame was that it had a black prostitute. I arrived in Da Nang in June 1968. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. It must have been about 1100 hr. It was to late to get him settled in because we were so incredibly busy with rocket attack damage. He was laying on his back and we had tied his arms (wrists) to the legs on one end of the desk and then had tide his upper thighs to the other legs of the desk. 1968: US Naval Support Activity DaNang: Publisher: U.S . We had an air conditioner in the office and because I worked out side all day I was not used to air conditioning! He was standing about 10 feet from me and the first round of a rocket attack went through the ventilator on top of our building ,exactly four feet above the LTs head and exploded in the ware house bay next to our shop. 5440 x 3520 px (46,06 x 29,80 cm) - 300 dpi - RVB, Les licences libres de droits vous permettent de ne payer quune fois pour utiliser des images et des vidos protges par un droit dauteur dans des projets personnels ou commerciaux de manire continue, sans paiement supplmentaire chaque nouvelle utilisation desdits contenus. Nang officers billeting ! Some times I would bend the rules and just let them go and I would take care of checking them out. We also had a couple of American Philco Ford teachers. On Friday I left the shop at 1800hr and went to the Children's Clinic. The rocket attacks after that the would be on target! I was new in country and still in John Wayne mode. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968. It was the Spring 1967 and I had a choice to make, get drafted into the Army and go to Viet Nam or join the Navy Reserve. It was not exactly what you would call a state of the art mental hospital ! Here is an E mail I got from Karl explaining his arrival to Vietnam and Camp Books (FLC) The last week of May brought us a knew Chief Builder and our old Chief Botswains mate left us. I was probably in as much in shock as the farmer. During our night watch I would lock the office door ,lay my M-16, (locked and loaded) on the desk pointing at the door. I was one of the unlucky ones who ended up shoveling a lot of shit! Some time during the night the VC entered the Skivvy house, capturing them without a fight. Coate introduced me to a Chief Boatswain Mate who was our executive officer.The Commanding officer wasn't there( a lieutenant Junior Grade.) I needed to know which of the sound meant danger! that's one of our generators upper left. The pilots jumped out . Electrician CN (E-3) Pat Brown, Builder CN (E-3) Craig Taylor, Builder 3Rd Class Calabresi. I was standing in front of the hut assessing the job. Another thing that screwed up the night for us was our night radio, phone watch, it was a real bitch ! whatever you say Mr. Naval Communication Facility. I was able to remain calm and under control and do what ever he told me but inside I was on the edge of losing it! I am sure had I not done that , the Chief, when he came down to the hootch, would have solved the problem by sending me back to China Beach. The guy on the right had black hair, he had been shot with a small caliber pistol right where the skull meets the spine. The year 1968 was the year of the Tet Offensive including Khe Sanh and Hue City. It didn't take long to get out of bed when the first rocket struck nearby. List of aircraft of the Malaysian Armed Forces, http://www.worldcat.org/title/southeast-asia-building-the-bases-the-history-of-construction-in-southeast-asia/oclc/952642951&referer=brief_results, https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/by-sea-air-land-marolda/chapter-4-winding-down-the-war-1968-1973.html, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, United States military bases of the Vietnam War. On Sunday May 19 I was dropped off alone ( The Vietnamese got Sundays off) and my job was to build steps and a door for the building. Coate would send dog food care packages to Judy. I don't remember when I stopped doing work at the Children's clinic, Maybe the end of June or early July. I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! a lot in Vietnam. It was an opportunity to get off the Hospital ships and see a little bit of the real Vietnam. So much for getting Sunday off. Beddoe. On Friday May 17 I was sent out on another job. Battalion was deployed to Danang, Vietnam from January, 1968 through September, 1968 and again from March, 1969 through November, 1969. She would throw dirt into the air and scratch at her face until it was bleeding , rubbing dirt into the cuts. Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the . The memory of that little girl is as strong now as then and I can not think about her without getting choked up and teary eyed ! At NSA Camp Tien Sha, an enlisted men's club was constructed. He didn't mince words. " Had fun there, especially since I had to wear civilian clothes. 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. Didnt take long to figure out that everyone could see that you were a FNG. Anyone who tried to open that door without giving our pass word would have been shot. She is always with me ! Some where along the line the nurse had done an IV drip. The Seabee construction crews he is referring to was my crew. Faites votre choix parmi des millions de photos, vidos et illustrations de haute qualit. I pretty much walked the whole base then back to the EM club for a cold beer My address is: Phillip K. Sampley. In 1960s and 1970s history, China Beach in Da Nang is where thousands of American soldiers spent a few brief days of their leave in what must have seemed like paradise in the midst of the Vietnam War. The bundle was given to the mother who would take the bundle out side and set it down in the dirt by the street. [1] In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. My very first Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! Then to Travis, Hawaii, Subic Bay (and shore patrol in Olongapo), then to Danang. The Marines slept 12 to 14 men in a hootch. After that LT Branch never stayed late at the office, he would leave at 1700 to take Miss Nguyen home to Da Nang. We aren't sure where he is yet and haven't got permission to go after him! When I started working on this clinic project I was full of good feelings as to how we were helping these poor Vietnamese people. This would also give Beerworth time to get his guys out on their job. En savoir plus sur les images libres de droits ou consulter la FAQ sur les photos. Well, the Camp Tein Sha barracks got me for Friday, and Saturday. He got in line and they loaded his truck with beds, lots of beds. Welcome! I served there and just would like to hear from some of the guys that was there. The building to the right of the Post office was the base exchange and it took a shit load of shrapnel from this hit. So after the 2400 check in I would jump in the truck with M-16 and ammo. What that means is we stood a four hour night watch every other night. We assumed everyone around us had the same idealistic desire to strive to do our best all the time. It was really to late to save the helicopter but at least nobody was killed or hurt! Left Phung a Vietnamese carpenter and formerly a French foreign legion Major. The three strong backs that I was to build for 7th motors was put on hold. We went through the gate, down Main Street, took a left and stopped in front of a small building that looked like a hamburger stand. I donated money several times while at Camp Books. 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. There was a young mother with several kid and grandma and grandpa. He lets fly with 8 or 10 rounds then he is done for the day. 2021/09/07 Cpl. View from bow of LCM. If one of the other bases in our AO got hit by mortars or rockets then our siren went off and we were on red alert which meant we had to role out with weapons, helmets,and flack jackets and man our posts. That's danger close to the shop! Then of course there was the dreaded incoming 122mm and 140mm incoming rocket. Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. I was going to have to hit the ground running if I intended to stay with this team. Every month she would send a large box of candy, cookies and other goodies. 89 helpful votes. Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. Long , long ago, far, far away on the other side of the I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! MOS. loading the LSTs and loading onto trucks. Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major ports, a city rich in history. There was the real possibility of hitting a mine or being ambushed by the VC (it happened more often then I would like to think about) . I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. THIS IS A FULL Collection of 4 pages of FIRE BASES, AIR FORCE BASES, Naval and Medical, BROWN WATER Naval, and any and all bases DOD during the Vietnam War 1963 to 1975. Clayton Beerworth and I were working on major repairs there by 0600 and the Mess hall was in operation more or less by that evening although it took a couple more days to get it up to 100% . Also we took care of damage at Camp Reasoner and the small CAP out posts. With tears in my eyes I told the guard that I had been helping the doc at the children's clinic and he could take his fucking travel chit and shove it up his ass! His home of record is Carteret, NJ. Older Vietnam veteran who served in the US Navy at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang, 1968-1969. Very often our flares would land in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch burning down many Vietnamese huts providing more damaged children for the clinic. uniform. When I got on the bus to Camp Tien Sha (the one with chicken wiure on the windows) I knew I wasn't in Kansas. The tents were on the right. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. "Ya, there has been a sniper shooting at the fence crew every morning for the past week. Even then every time the Doc cut through a nerve that farmer would try to fly through the roof! Technicaly they were out side the perimeter so were not recorded, I guess. Camp Tien Sha is a former United States Navy base located in Danang, Vietnam. It was closed in late 1969, the Admiral moved to China Beach and in 1970 I was an RM2 working at the Triangle Communications Center on the east side of the Han River (between Camp Tien-Sha and China Beach). Uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett (. The Doc trimmed all the skin and muscle nice and neat adding clamps (hemostats) as he went. All terrain forklifts would scurry back and forth off Book cover type. All of the rounds hit in swamp area between the main base and FLC command building . After he was medivaced one young labor worker(Baby son) would ask me every morning If I had heard how Barbee was and if I got a letter from him. I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. These Vietnam War photos taken by U.S. Army photographers reveal a side of the conflict that few people have ever seen. Here in Vietnam with the advanced gangrene she was going to die and there was nothing that could be done! So as May 1968 ended I had been in Vietnam for 1 month! It was kind of a taste of what we would get when the monsoons came in September. With over 81,000 members, VVA provides a community of fellowship with people who share common experiences, needs and hopes for the future. A refugee family was living in a lean too in Dog Patch south . I was not prepared and he totally over powered me! NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIBITY DANANG, VIETNAM" patch on the front cover with gold embossed Naval Support Activity Da Nang 1966-67. Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. Liked the Oriental rock bands came to the Club: Christopher, Eric: RD3: Mar 1970 - May 1971: Naval Support Activity Danang: YFU 73 - a flat bottomed Skilak. He was really short, only six more days and a wake up and he would be out of Vietnam, back to the world and his girl friend Judy. I couldn't grasp what was going on at the time. The trailer was to short so the Marines legs were bent at the knees and sticking up, no shoes, pant legs up to their knees showing their very white legs. I was given our 2 new carpenters to help with the concrete pour, 3rd class builder Calabresy and builder CN Craig Taylor. We hopped in his truck and he took me down to H&S company supply to get bedding and mess gear. 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 . Don't go to Dog Patch at night and stay way from the prostitutes. He expired nine days later. The base appears to remain in use by the PAVN. Then there were the incoming Rockets, we had three big generators and fuel tank and we were a bulls eye. Detachment Nha Trang - 1965 - 1971. So my hooch would now have 5 of us. At the base of Monkey mountain was Camp Tien Sha, the main Navy base. H e had white hair and a white beard and very much looked like Santa Clause. After the bones were cut the Doc tied off all the bleeders and removed the hemostats . ALL work centers report in : AWC # 1 reports everything is quite ! This is the poem I wrote about the little girl who died from gangrene. It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. Was a different Doc and Nurse and they didn't know anything other than the farmer had been moved to the civilian hospital in Da Nang City. What the hell is that? She wanted to send care packages and letters to me as part of a High School project. Danang East/Main: Served in Da Nang East then Main. 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. We had fox holes around the generators and fuel tank and I would sit there looking up at that big ass fuel tank thinking that if the VC hit that with a RPG (rocket propelled grenade) I was going to be turned into a crispy critter. Vietnam veterans, age 60+, American. It was the UH-1 trailing smoke. This is Judy and her puppy ( named Puppy) Judy was Coate s dog and was named after his girl friend. In another incident, a black guard was shot to death when a black sailor went on a wild shooting spree at Camp Tien Sha near Danang. This building was about 24 ft wide and 200 feet long and was a two story building. I can find no official reports on that rocket attack and have to assume nobody bothered to make a report because the rounds hit in the swamp between the main body of Camp Books and the Force Logistics Command section. In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. The shop door are between the 2 telephone poles. VVA's goals . Some of the rocket attacks were on Camp Books (FLC) . camp tien sha danang, vietnam 1968. When we arrived at Red Beach the Seabee team shop was a mad house. I slowly walked around the trailer checking them out. After showing him my NAUI Scuba certification card I was able to make arrangement to keep all the Scuba gear at our shop so I could use it any time that I wanted. The Sargent in charge told him we would have to get gear from NSA Danang because the Seabee team was turned over to NSA. I heard the distant crack of rifle fire and then my brain said holy shit, somebody is shooting at me!! 1968 - Harold Goldman's Cobra Gunship Hue 1970, submitted by Roger Carver Hue 1970, submitted by Roger Carver . 15 rounds hit us with 3 KIA and 15 wounded. 03/11/66 - Harvey L. Engel, QM1, Lincoln, NE. : . I took my time cooling myself off in that shower then went I got a letter from Annette Burrell ( Johns younger sister) sometime in May. I was in Vietnam from November 3, 1968, through November 7, 1969. My day was done!! I have 'issues' from that crap hole as well.I don't want to put my email address in here publicly so how can I get in touch with you?Ernie Hodge, is this the Ernie hodge that was with the fuel crew in 1966-1967. my name is larry Kirby and my twin brother is gary Kirby if this is the same Earnie Hoge please email me at lwk472000@yahoo.vom. 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