2023 iStockphoto LP. As tired as I was I never got much sleep. Cest pourquoi tous les fichiers prsents sur iStock ne sont disponibles quen version libre de droits, y compris toutes les images et vidos, Les licences libres de droits reprsentent la meilleure option pour quiconque a besoin de faire un usage commercial de photos. Our mess hall, about 70 yards from my hootch took a direct hit on the serving line and kitchen area. Da Nang marks the halfway point between Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City in the south. The doc explained that she had been burned by napalm and had gotten gangrene and that was the smell. First I had to do a couple hour job at the 1st MP Quonset hut. ( very much reminds me of cutting up chickens at butchering time). 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. [3]:8, In April 1972 all US Navy facilities in Danang were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.[4]. T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. What I really When Puppy was big enough our secretary, interpreter Miss Nguyen took Puppy home with her to Danang. I believe we also tied him around the waist. This book is the capstone volume of the entire series in that 1968, as the title indicates, was the defining year of the war. 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. 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 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! VVA's goals . There were Seabees, Korean Philco Ford, Vietnamese all working like mad . 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. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! He had to re arrange his schedule to accommodate me. Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. November 3, 1968 camp tien sha danang, vietnam 1968 left December 22, 1969 worked at the Deep Water Piers, working,! The feet just kind of hanging by muscle and skin. I wanted to know everything about what happened to those Marines. He lets fly with 8 or 10 rounds then he is done for the day. I was going to have to hit the ground running if I intended to stay with this team. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968. nstar48. That episode followed rioting along China Beach by black . Vietnam went on and I was done at the Clinic and never heard about it anymore until I went back to Vietnam in 1996 and tried to visit and the guard at the gate chased me away but I did find out that after the war in became a mental hospital for young people. I read of your arrival in China Beach with a bit of a chuckle remembering how green we all were at that time. 15 rounds hit us with 3 KIA and 15 wounded. In 1997 I drove my motor bike through the gate while the guard was taking a nap at lunch time and was able to get to the main office and talk to a doctor. Port side of APL-30 (Auxiliary Personnel Lighter) or barracks craft. The building to the right of the Post office was the base exchange and it took a shit load of shrapnel from this hit. U.S. The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. Around back there was a Jeep with a utility trailer on behind. A love affair. Barrels of asphalt damaged by rocket attack, April 1969 . Book description. building. side was a area called Bridge Ramp which was where the Navy LSTs would pull in After a couple rocket and mortar attacks my brain never went completely to sleep. I was not prepared and he totally over powered me! I went back to my cubicle crawled into bed, ending my I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. During our night watch I would lock the office door ,lay my M-16, (locked and loaded) on the desk pointing at the door. It was kind of like the work orders I got. Coate was not there to know about Puppy. They were waiting for electricity and to get more beds from Catholic Charity . Well sure I heard about it and even saw them down at 1st MPs. So that's what I did, went back to work. This is our new Chief Builder. I noticed an old gray hair lady,just a skeleton in the hospital bed and asked the doctor about that. We are the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1122, based in Collin County, Texas. She is always with me ! Uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett county ( lst-786 ) uss garrett (. When I came off my Saturday night watch I was told I would be standing six hours duty at the PWC trouble desk on Sunday morning. It was time to go look for some food! Well damn right I was scared. Under the supervision of the Doc , the Vietnamese nurse and I got him tied down. Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! Then he could pick my guys up and pick up materials to build my hooch. As he cut them off he threw them in the corner beside the shelf and I can remember how strange they looked leaning against the wall! The . 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 . View from bow of LCM. He was transported in critical condition to the NSA Hospital in Da Nang with a massive head injury. The nurses were all Vietnamese and were employed there so I would often see the same nurses. The two crew members jumped out just under the flames .They carried their M-60 machine guns. (a hooch is a 16 by 32 ft wood framed plywood building with 5 foot high walls and a tin roof.) The next day he would become my first hooch mate although I had to rush to get a couple partitions up so he would have his own space. Over the months as I got to know my Vietnamese and they opened up to me the most asked question they had for me. I was to hear FNG We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! Because I was just getting situated it was just mass confusion for me . In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (16.12N 108.214E) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. 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! Gave me the creeps then and still does now when I think about it! 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. Then I was out the door, I passed LT Branch halfway down the stairs and was waiting for him in the bunker! African Americans perceived racial issuesrace relations, prejudice, and discriminationin Vietnam through a lens heavily influenced by their earlier experiences in the United States. 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. Another interesting point is the H&S Co. Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. What ever it was we were done by shortly after 1600 hr. I was at Camp Tien Sha from June '69 until Feb '70. The sound had carried down the valley making it sound very close, then it would die down then get loud again, very strange how the sound bounced around the walls of the valley. I had to make a quick exit when the patients got excited when I walked towards the main ward! This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. A refugee family was living in a lean too in Dog Patch south . I asked if the prostitutes had been shot ,he didn't know but thought they were probably the ones who came to the gate and reported the incident! 89 helpful votes. would be thinking about that meal a lot! An electrician CN (E-3). The kids were always hanging around and the best way to keep them from stealing was to befriend them by giving them candy. They had been covered with poncho liners but they had blown off. It's the 4th largest city in Vietnam. It was to late to get him settled in because we were so incredibly busy with rocket attack damage. It sure seemed longer then a month, to me it was more like a few months! The kids head had been stitched up and looked just like a soccer ball. Price which includes postage (Media Mail) and insurance. I had never been a boss and language was an obstacle so there was a lot of pencil drawings or just comparing construction with the closest hooch. Nang officers billeting ! There was a young mother with several kid and grandma and grandpa. His home of record is Carteret, NJ. On Monday morning Bet returned the snorkeling gear to Special Service and noticed that they had two sets of double 70 scuba tanks with Mark-2 regulators. Some where along the line the nurse had done an IV drip. I dont know a damn thing so That sure screwed with our sleep! The poor farmer had stepped on a mine. the evening to wonder about and check out what Camp Tien Sha had to offer. I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon. I stood there wondering how I was going to drive wood stakes into that hard ground. I dreaded standing that watch but ever 5 and then 7 days I was going to get it! It was in a large dirt field 150 yards outside of the north perimeter. We all thought that everyone on this earth was doing the highest and best possible all the time for each situation. I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic.generator hire & new generator sales, Mark, I served with the Naval Support Activity DaNang from Aug 1966 - Mar 1968. Vietnam Shortimer Calendar, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. The Chief did manage to get bedding (Ha,Ha) I got one bed sheet and one pillow case. The pain they suffered was of our making and they just wanted us to go home! T is a history of NSA in Vietnam, which by 1969 was the Navy's largest overseas command with the largest public works department in the world. Craig Taylor was pulled from the job to go work another project.He had also gotten cement poisoning in a cut on his foot so would not be able to help on any more concrete work. I faked being a doctor from the USA and was shown around a little. I was 19 but not a drinker. It didn't take long to get out of bed when the first rocket struck nearby. Had tied their hands behind their backs and executed them. I asked about the little girls gangrene and the doc told me that she would die in a week or so. Later I built a wash building and cook shack just about where these cots and the officers are standing. Detachment Hue - 1965 - 1970. Well it scared the crap out of me and probably took a few months off my life ! All of the workers that worked for us were dislocated Vietnamese and us putting them to work was an attempt to keep their economy rolling. Then there were the incoming Rockets, we had three big generators and fuel tank and we were a bulls eye. Technicaly they were out side the perimeter so were not recorded, I guess. I didn't know it then but that was my last good meal for a long time! Da Nang East. 2021/09/07 Cpl. We were also vulnerable to sappers . The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. To know all the different sounds was to be able to read what was happening at night and how safe I was. Da Nang Vietnam 1968 stock footage and images. She would be down on her hands and knees crying and waling. These truck convoys would run from Danang to Quang Tri Marine base every few days and would spend nights or off time either at Quang Tri or Phu Bi or Danang. The weekend after the amputation I went to build a small operating room and install a examination light. When the Doc was finished he told me I could remove the stick. On the evening of May 23 we got a knew man in, Karl Voiles. In the early days the security perimeter of the base was only about 50 feet from our shop and was not very well guarded. My body was always waiting to react. The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. - LCU-63 * MIA * A couple of our guys , Craig Taylor and Pat Brown were interested in learning to Scuba dive so I took it upon my self to teach them. cold glasses of chocolate milk, ice cream and an apple to go. 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. Just keep on working in the rain. I held the door open for them. A very nice book. They did hit the fuel bladders at truck company several time so I knew there would be a nice warm fire if our fuel tank got hit. Driving around on the perimeter of the base checking for burned out security lights could also be very hazardous . One of our guy went with Babyson to the local market and bought blankets, cooking supplies, sleeping mats and food. Remember the talk we got about staying away from the prostitutes that I got my first day in Vietnam? But when shit happens to you and you are the victim, everything changed! It took until 2000 hours to finish that first slab. : . Thursday morning we stripped the forms and started building the framing of the first building. That was my first time seeing dead Marines. Familiar Places. The helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. Bombardier. The day we put up our sign . Target audience. He got the point and let me through the gate, no more questions asked. After the bones were cut the Doc tied off all the bleeders and removed the hemostats . MCB 53 was decommissioned at Davisville, Rhode Island on 10 December 1969. This is the near miss at our Post office. It seemed a bit strange to see everything so neat and tidy when I think that maybe it was a way to help get my thoughts together, write the event down and then move on. It started raining Saturday June1st and rained continuously until Wednesday morning but that didn't slow down work any. So much for getting Sunday off. Often the convoys would drop off kids from out in the bush. Detachment Phu Bai - 1965 -1970. 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. Great Discounts & More! Coate gave me two sets of shorts and short sleeve shirts. 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. - Danang Harbor Pilot - (Quang Nam) U.S. Army 329th Heavy Boat Company 5th Transportation Company Mine Explosion. Well we 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. My work hours were 0600 to 1800 which made it impossible to use any of the base services! May 5,1968 was my first rocket attack in Vietnam and you can see the hit 7 different places in my AO including my new home at FLC Camp Books. 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. When I look back it sure seems stupid but at the time what else could I do? Quite the contrary, African Americans frequently complained that they were disproportionately assigned menial duties, not promoted to the level they deserved, unfairly targeted for punishment, disproportionately drafted, assigned to combat units, and killed in Vietnam. The tents were on the right. Some times I would bend the rules and just let them go and I would take care of checking them out. Then I started paying more attention. to my new cubicle and dressed in my slightly used green utility working There wasn't much blood ,just a small whelp where the bullet went in. 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. Iowa. The number of rockets are probably plus or minus a couple rockets. 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% . I was one of the unlucky ones who ended up shoveling a lot of shit! I heard the distant crack of rifle fire and then my brain said holy shit, somebody is shooting at me!! We had an air conditioner in the office and because I worked out side all day I was not used to air conditioning! The new wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. At that time the base fir truck showed up. Her husband was an ARVN soldier who had been killed. The second floor office was just being framed up . Most of them would be dead by now as most of the men were in their mid forties then . Detachment Nha Trang - 1965 - 1971. Dock area at Da Nang harbor. There was always something interesting to watch at Camp Books. Welcome! Well guess what ? This is the inside of our shop.The office was upstairs and to the left. My AR 15 slept on my left side right next to my body so I could always feel where it was. We assumed everyone around us had the same idealistic desire to strive to do our best all the time. Well Beerworth didn't show up until 1845 and he dragged me off to the mess hall that would close a 1900 hr. I am not sure what possessed me to write poems there. In these years, U.S. Army Vietnam alone retrograded over 671,000 short tons of supplies. Later after they landed it became obvious that they were throwing out the ammo boxes so they wouldn't explode when they landed. 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. Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. Lance Corporal James D Feucht (cause of death,misadventure). BBC News, Da Nang, Vietnam. thought though was he was just putting on a show for us new guys. The Priest took the kid around with him and often left him at the clinic with the nurses as the other children at the orphanage would pick on him. I have never found any but I still have hope. I would share it with my team mates but a lot of it I gave to the Vietnamese children at the Clinic or whenever I worked off base. The saw he used was a miniature version of the bone saw we used when we cut up cows or pigs at butchering time on the farm! "Ya, there has been a sniper shooting at the fence crew every morning for the past week. This comment has been removed by the author. He seemed totally comfortable and relaxed. They had to be manned 24 hours a day. Every tree trunk was painted white, every rock was neatly lined up along the Then a voice came from inside the Quonset hut." There are other memories of my time working at the clinic. while we were starting the wall framing we heard the sound of a UH-1 helicopter. The doc had no idea but it was a sure thing she was going to die. On Tuesday May 14 I finished my hooch and settled into the corner right inside the door. Camp Haskins, Da Nang, Vietnam, served as headquarters of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, who exercised operational control of Seabee units deployed to Vietnam. painting rocks. By 1969 I was and RM3 in the White Elephant (an old French Fort in downtown Da Nang) where the commanding Admiral was located. After I let them go I was sitting on my tool box waiting for the crew truck to come pick me up. paths and painted white and there were white picket fences around almost every We were supposed to protect our base generators and fuel tank from sappers. When he was all loaded he told them one of the other drivers had the paper work and while they were trying to hunt down the papers he just drove away. In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha.:33. BU3 Hovanec expired July 7, 1969 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. She smelled horrible! 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). Found any but I still have hope to die years, U.S. Army Vietnam alone retrograded over short! 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