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. 6320 Selago Drive. Yes that's me smiling up from the 122mm rocket crater. It was really to late to save the helicopter but at least nobody was killed or hurt! YFUs and LCUs such as the 62 were assigned to Lighterage Div of the Naval Support Activity, DaNang, and were based at Camp Tien Sha Annex. The pilots jumped out . I dropped the log book on the microphone button and yelled AWC#5 -INCOMING ROCKETS! I didn't realize at the time that the intended target was me and the generators. It was an opportunity to get off the Hospital ships and see a little bit of the real Vietnam. What the hell is that? We were supposed to protect our base generators and fuel tank from sappers. Another thing that screwed up the night for us was our night radio, phone watch, it was a real bitch ! 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! It is long gone. 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. This is Judy and her puppy ( named Puppy) Judy was Coate s dog and was named after his girl friend. With chow finished I had the rest of I had plenty of time to take it all in and it was very UN-nerving. By 1969 I was and RM3 in the White Elephant (an old French Fort in downtown Da Nang) where the commanding Admiral was located. I faked being a doctor from the USA and was shown around a little. A very nice book. 11/03/70 - John D. Shewmake Sr., SFC, Adona, AR. In reality, it is a collection of ideas, images, and information that enough people have chosen to preserve and disseminate. Often the convoys would drop off kids from out in the bush. Welcome to Viet----fuckn Nam you FNGs ( funking new guys) !!! 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. 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. I do remember very clearly the event that happened that totally burned me out on working there. Craig Tailor is on the left and on the right is Carl Rice who came on board about the same time as the new Chief. Paperback. The 53rd had five (5) CO's from 1942 through 1946. . Her husband was an ARVN soldier who had been killed. Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. James L Chambers (cause of death,misadventure). The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. 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 Brief. Pett George my ex UDT instructor allowed me to go through the class early being as how my older brother Jay and my Dad were going through the class too. When we got there the doc wanted to show us around. and drop their bow ramps. 3. (Actually, I rode in a truck.) On May 22 at 0200 hr. and I was just finishing up the door. 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). All of the rounds hit in swamp area between the main base and FLC command building . I am a 20 year old US soldier and my country says I have to be here! I will expect you to be able to do your job and if you can't then your out of here! So that's what I did, went back to work. There hours were 0800 to1700 so it was impossible for me to go. So off to Camp Tien Sha to get my gear and check out. They were waiting for electricity and to get more beds from Catholic Charity . ( very much reminds me of cutting up chickens at butchering time). Work started at 0700 hr and we got off at 1700 hr. I have never found any but I still have hope. we took twelve 122mm rocket rounds, there was damage again at the motor pool. There was a young mother with several kid and grandma and grandpa. The crew truck got there about 1745 hr or so and the doc was still busy. Dearest Rita, I just finished a quick letter to my folks first one since I've been here. This is the inside of our shop.The office was upstairs and to the left. 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 . As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. The little girl was fusing and didn't want to leave the nurse so it took a little effort to hand her off to me . I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! The two guys shot in the skivvy house that night were, Pvt. It was a Saturday, perhaps we were finishing up the cook shed. Very often our flares would land in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch burning down many Vietnamese huts providing more damaged children for the clinic. March 29, 1969. 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. Very close now and it was clear that they weren't going to make it over the hurricane fence at the perimeter. If there were any trouble calls from the Marines (usually lights out on the perimeter or something not working at the mess hall) then it was jump in the truck drive out and check and drive over to our hooch and get who ever was needed to go fix the problem. 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. It was about the most insane thing I had ever experienced and was hard for my mind to grasp what had just happened. It is also one of the top international surfing destinations. What the F is wrong with her? Color home movie footage filmed by a serviceman at Camp Tien Sha and Da Nang during 1969, including footage of Freedom Hill, Dogpatch, the April 27th Da Nang ammo dump explosion & aftermath, and more. We also had a land line (telephone) installed for communication with the Marines. 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. T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. Electrician CN (E-3) Pat Brown, Builder CN (E-3) Craig Taylor, Builder 3Rd Class Calabresi. I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. 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. We took a left hand turn at the intersection and headed out the Tien Sha peninsula towards Monkey Mountain. Between 1969 and 1971 hundreds, if not thousands, of incidents of racial violence occurred in and around American military bases In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. You got to do what you got to do ! 15 rounds hit us with 3 KIA and 15 wounded. View from bow of LCM. 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. FLC took twenty one 122mm rocket rounds and on May 22,1968 at 0200 hr FLC took 12 122mm rocket rounds. It's the 4th largest city in Vietnam. So after the 2400 check in I would jump in the truck with M-16 and ammo. First I had to do a couple hour job at the 1st MP Quonset hut. It was to late to get him settled in because we were so incredibly busy with rocket attack damage. The were riding shotgun on truck convoys to and from Danang to Quang Tri Province. I had my broken leg cot and was living out of my sea bag. Battalion was deployed to Danang, Vietnam from January, 1968 through September, 1968 and again from March, 1969 through November, 1969. That's danger close to the shop! The feet just kind of hanging by muscle and skin. I had to pick up a box of those little "letter balls" for IMB Selectric typewriters from Camp Tien Sha and from there, "fight" my way all the way to China Beach. 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 She is always with me ! just out of the picture on the right. Necessarily, more is lost to time than is remembered. Later I built a wash building and cook shack just about where these cots and the officers are standing. The cot had a broken leg so I had to prop it up with a sand bag and it was missing one end piece so it just wanted to fold up on me when I laid on it. For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. 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. by the time they got to us AWC# 5 we would be awake (hopefully) and report in. In July 1966 the "Bridge Cargo Ramp" (160307N 1081352E / 16.052N 108.231E / 16.052; 108.231) began operations increasing NSA's supply capability. Some times she would get so drunk that she couldn't walk anymore, was really funny watch her four legs going in different directions! 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! Photo libre de droit de Camp Tien Sha banque d'images et plus d'images libres de droit de Vietnam - Vietnam, Base militaire, 1968. and to listen to music. I was 19 but not a drinker. Late in the day we had built them a nice hootch and had them moved in. Map of the Vietnam War. One night I was in the office with LT Branch . While my guys were working I was talking to the Gunny in the hut. So on the hour we would get a call. 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. We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. Donald is buried at Holy Trinity Church Cemetery, Hopelawn, NJ. There were 6 area work centers in the Da Nang AO . You will use the chain of command ,don't come to me. Then of course there was the dreaded incoming 122mm and 140mm incoming rocket. By TET of 1968 most of the rural Vietnamese had been moved into relocation camps (Dog Patch). DA NANG 66-67 - Camp Tien Sha Naval Support Activity Camp Tien Sha Danang Vietnam Danang Vietnam 1966 1967 Camp Tien Sha was an old French army base. Keep exploring. So just go back to work and keep moving so he doesn't have a stationary target and you should be OK!" We also had a couple of American Philco Ford teachers. 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) . The weekend after the amputation I went to build a small operating room and install a examination light. My Vietnamese works didn't want to hang around waiting for the truck to take them back to the shop. I have spent countless hours over the past 15 years driving my motorbike around the Camp Books area looking for any of our workers. The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. It had been a very busy month with a lot of things happening. It was a horrifying thing to watch. I asked about the little girl and the doc said she had died Thursday night. 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. The fire was caused by a Air or artillery white phosphorus flare ( WP). 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. June 29, 2022; creative careers quiz; ken thompson net worth unix A smell I have never smelled again in my life time. Most of them would be dead by now as most of the men were in their mid forties then . I am searching for anyone who may recall serving with me in the Seabees at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang between 1969-1971. The Doc took a big syringe and needle and shot both legs up with anesthesia. I heard the distant crack of rifle fire and then my brain said holy shit, somebody is shooting at me!! The helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. They were simply ghettos with poor sanitation , communal water supply, no roads or electricity. He spent the night at the shop bunker by himself , totally confused as to what was going on. There weren't even any stairs going up there yet. 2021/09/07 Cpl. Supported COMSEC 705 (Camp Tien Sha), Operation Big Look (Da Nang) and USMC ground missions (1st Radio BN). Well damn right I was scared. Coate gave me two sets of shorts and short sleeve shirts. You FNGs And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. Here is a poem that I wrote about the helicopter. S . The Marines in that ambush had fired on me to scare me because they thought I was the duty officer making the rounds. ---- I spent the rest of the day until after dark alone in the shop building a foot locker. 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. Luxury. nstar48; Media item; Jan 30, 2008; Download this Camp Tien Sha photo now. Well I never did hear from Barbee. The kids head had been stitched up and looked just like a soccer ball. side was a area called Bridge Ramp which was where the Navy LSTs would pull in Indianapolis, IN 46203. So every week there would be a different doctor. NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIBITY DANANG, VIETNAM" patch on the front cover with gold embossed Naval Support Activity Da Nang 1966-67. When Puppy was big enough our secretary, interpreter Miss Nguyen took Puppy home with her to Danang. Within a hundred feet of the generators. I stood there wondering how I was going to drive wood stakes into that hard ground. Nice history lesson for me. History is not a fixed set of facts. Anyone who tried to open that door without giving our pass word would have been shot. Tlchargez ds aujourd'hui la photo Camp Tien Sha. Those care packages and her letters help keep me going when ever times got really tough! Soon we came to the bridge across the Han River. Do the job, get it done right and then sign off the work order and move on to the next one. Bruce Moore says he first returned from a 13-month stint in the Vietnam War to a "poor response." "We were at Norton Air Force Base. Vietnam Shortimer Calendar, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. I was at Camp Tien Sha from June '69 until Feb '70. 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. 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. Sleeping in that bunker was not good.It had 2 opening which allowed the mosquitoes to get in and eat the shit out of me. The shop doors were always open and a light on in the shop. Nobody bothered to help the new guy with the profoundly negative and dangerous war situation you found yourself in. 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. Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. I didn't think about the danger but was aware of it. The first half of my year in Vietnam (1967) I was stationed at the large U. S. base in Danang. $10 of that came from me. Often several rockets would have gone off before I even knew we were under attack ! 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. On the left The tents were on the right. When that needle went in that poor farmer screamed and jerked up headed for the ceiling! We had to give Puppy away as we were not even supposed to have a dog. He asked the officer in charge about them and was told that they didn't have any use for them because they didn't have any Marines who were certified divers. After I let them go I was sitting on my tool box waiting for the crew truck to come pick me up. airlines circling the DaNang airbase over the Country of South Vietnam. went by (so slowly! Because of the rocket attack on May 13 (rockets hit with in 50 yard of this building) some of the officers there wanted escape doors out the back of the building where they were starting to build their own bunkers. In these years, U.S. Army Vietnam alone retrograded over 671,000 short tons of supplies. Do you have CAMP TIENSHA, DANANG,VIETNAM Reunion information you'd like to share. In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha.:33. Modern. The former Marine HQ (III MAF) which was located not too far away is now used by the Vietnamese army (it was built by the French) and is a no . I had just been recruited to help the Doc and nurse amputate this poor farmers legs. Friday was an interesting day. Sunday late afternoons we were able to get over to the Red Beach causeway and get in some water sessions. The Doc first put surgical tourniquets on and took the belts off. The next work order I got for there I gave it to Beerworth and told him I would not work there any more! Then to Travis, Hawaii, Subic Bay (and shore patrol in Olongapo), then to Danang. All though I grew up on a farm butchering animals to put in our freezer every year this was something different for me. Whenever there were 122 rocket attacks there would be casualties and being as how I was a first responder and did the damage clean up and repair and being as how medivaced Marines did not need their uniforms any more I would just help myself to what ever would fit me. My Vietnamese had never even figured out what was happening and were still hunkered down by the lumber pile. march in columns of two over to that building. Guest 31-Aug-2016 02:35: . The other important thing we had to do was to check the Red Beach causeway at 2400 hr. The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? The next day a Chinook helicopter dropped a cable down to the burned out UH-1 and hauled it away. I thought they were trying to lighten their load. camp tien sha danang, vietnam 1968. Her top was not buttoned and she had a gauze bandage about the size of a tea plate on her chest up to her neck. 6 years ago. You are a builder so Beerworth or Yost will be who you report too." I don't remember when I stopped doing work at the Children's clinic, Maybe the end of June or early July. I arrived in Da Nang in June 1968. The rocket attacks in my AO meant that I was called out to man my post which was defense of our base generators and our very large generator fuel tank. The number of rockets are probably plus or minus a couple rockets. 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. Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major ports, a city rich in history. Re: Vietnam Nam vet wants to see war sites. I just haven't had time for any more. 1968: US Naval Support Activity DaNang: Publisher: U.S . 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. To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! The wounded are only those who were medivaced to a hospital. I could see through the gauze and there was some kind of wound underneath that looked like velvet. I went out and sat on my toolbox and thought about what I had just experienced. 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. . Port bow of the barracks craft shows no. Some where along the line the nurse had done an IV drip. On the far end of the bridge right I felt sorry for the other guys in the truck with me . Da Nang is known as the tourist capital of South-Central Vietnam, with a west coast location that makes for beautiful sunsets against an impressive backdrop of lush mountains. APL-30 and dock at Da Nang harbor. The take-in was the same as you wrote. Why are you here in Vietnam ? Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! Older Vietnam veteran who served in the US Navy at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang, 1968-1969. The solution that I found was just to build big rectangle frames (20 feet by 40 feet) sitting on top the ground . Go through their front gate then out their back gate to the causeway. Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. When the Doc was finished he told me I could remove the stick. There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! It sure seemed longer then a month, to me it was more like a few months! The hooch in back is the doctors office and residents. We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. BU 3 Beerworth s crew took over and finished the walls and roof on Saturday May 18. LCU-63 * MI I held that little girl sitting on my tool box and in a short time she was used to me and clutching onto the front of my shirt. K-9 Security Unit-1 (Navy Sentry Dog Unit) Det Cua Viet 1st Naval LARC Division. Barrels of asphalt damaged by rocket attack, April 1969 . DS CS: Jan 1968: 6 Oct 1972: NSGDet - at 8th RRFS, PhuBai, Vietnam. His home of record is Carteret, NJ. I didn't know it then but that was my last good meal for a long time! Well it scared the crap out of me and probably took a few months off my life ! - Danang Harbor Pilot - (Quang Nam) U.S. Army 329th Heavy Boat Company 5th Transportation Company Mine Explosion. Book cover type. The He had no hair and always had snot running out of his nose and down his chin. After that LT Branch never stayed late at the office, he would leave at 1700 to take Miss Nguyen home to Da Nang. One night I was called out for some lights on the west perimeter. It was not exactly what you would call a state of the art mental hospital ! It was at maximum power and flying very fast. 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. paths and painted white and there were white picket fences around almost every I lay there waiting for the out posts to return fire, nothing happened! At the base of Monkey mountain was Camp Tien Sha, the main Navy base. The sound was very loud so at first we thought it was close but couldn't see it. Often times during a rocket or mortar attack rounds would over shoot landing in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch ,providing children for the Clinic. An electrician CN (E-3). 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. The Marine on the left was blond and looked like a California surfer.He to had been shot in the back of the head. Danang, VN _ _ DS CS: 1964: Feb 1973: Detachment Bravo, FLTSUPDET, Navcomsta, PI. Memoir of my time served with the Navy at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang, during the Vietnam war. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. Later after they landed it became obvious that they were throwing out the ammo boxes so they wouldn't explode when they landed. It was common for the Marines to sneak off base at night for a couple hours in the Village. He told me step by step every detail. I would have to find some time to build a foot locker. Short EM3 Camp Tien Sha Fire Department. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain. In Feb 1973, evacuated Danang to San Miguel . Some time before the end of the month we got three more guys in . Vietnam Memorial Monument Mobile Memorial Museum . Camp Tien Sha, Vietnam. So much for getting Sunday off. 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. 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