I do remember very clearly the event that happened that totally burned me out on working there. Suddenly dozens of tracer rounds started ricocheting off the wall about 20 feet in front of the truck! 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 . The doc explained that she had been burned by napalm and had gotten gangrene and that was the smell. Barbee was very well liked by the labor crew. He finished his tour with detective work as one of six NSA investigators at Camp Tien Sha, adjacent to Da Nang. The following information was emailed in to side was a area called Bridge Ramp which was where the Navy LSTs would pull in . the place. Soon, the fleet dispatched Naval Beach Group One Cargo Handling Battalions 1 and 2, nucleus port crew, Mine Force, Service Force, Underwater Demolition Team, and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units to Danang. The tracer rounds stopped ,I gave it a couple minutes and got in the truck and sped on my way back to the shop! 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. I know NOTHING of a chapel Was I scared ? I suppose we had a good conversation but don't have a clue of what. 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. At Freedom Hill you'll see some panoramic shots of the base and buildings (USO Club, ), likewise at Tien Sha (Snoopy's Chicken Hut, Acey Ducey Club). I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! There was a Marine listening ambush set up outside the perimeter in that area. Danang List - The Mobile Riverine Force Association - MRFA He had no hair and always had snot running out of his nose and down his chin. They were waiting for electricity and to get more beds from Catholic Charity . 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. Another interesting point is the H&S Co. [4]:8. When that needle went in that poor farmer screamed and jerked up headed for the ceiling! My Vietnam war was a very small place a small cargo plane in the middle of the night, all I 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. It was the UH-1 trailing smoke. I have spent countless hours over the past 15 years driving my motorbike around the Camp Books area looking for any of our workers. Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters - Navy Unit Directory - Together We Served Soon there were Marines all over the place. We stopped work and watched. He had a little Vietnamese kid with him about 8 years old. The tents were on the right. If US Mail works best for you, When the Doc was finished he told me I could remove the stick. pilot said that was to avoid being shot at by the VC. The new wood frame building that I did was behind the camera. Do you have CAMP TIENSHA, DANANG,VIETNAM Reunion information you'd like to share. So over time it was easier to just not know anyone. (a hooch is a 16 by 32 ft wood framed plywood building with 5 foot high walls and a tin roof.) My station when morning. Detachment Dong Ha - 1967 - 1970. 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. His name was Coate and he was a 3rd class yeoman. I think that maybe it was a way to help get my thoughts together, write the event down and then move on. Bet coming down the trail by the ESSO Plant east wall. thought about was the airbase in Danang was under attack, I had to make a quick exit when the patients got excited when I walked towards the main ward! year 1968 | MilitaryImages.Net Shortly after 1000 hr the team expediter showed up and I was introduced to him . Naval Communication Facility. Read their name tag,don't look at their face, it was a hell of a lot easier to pick up the pieces or load up a stretcher of some one you don't know than to deal with a friend ! Jack Shulimson . 44 Declassified Vietnam War Photos Taken By U.S. Army Photographers View Gallery History is not a fixed set of facts. reportedf to the USS Permit (SSN-594) at Mare Island, and got out a and drop their bow ramps. Jeep parts? I also made life long friends. I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was Then he pulled all that up to expose the bone where he wanted to cut the bone.The nurse held all the skin and muscle up while the Doc cut off the bones. to LCU-1498 (same routine). I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! So that's what I did, went back to work. The rest of my tour I did what every good Seabee team would do, I stole them ! Da Nang, Vietnam, Camp Tien Sha, 351 Days in Da Nang Ray Norton Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. loved cars and fast driving. Yes, everyone called him soccer ball head ! any old charts, photos or drawings of the PTF Marine guns up to the DMZ, we looked like shoe boxes eith long gun Because I was just getting situated it was just mass confusion for me . )The Doc gave me a large stick like a tongue depressor ,except bigger. I think there were only three or four of us on duty at the Population in 2009 (millions) Percentage of Province Sprayed During 1960s. I didn't understand at that time the danger of rocket attacks. On the far end of the bridge right Maps of Heavily Sprayed Areas and Dioxin Hot Spots training), ands a week at Whidby Island (E&E, and SERE. the correctly identified enlisted Our group that was sent to MST1 landed in Guess shoes" and one of the Vietnamese ptfnasty.com and the DaNang section, The bunker in back was the Korean bunker that I slept in while I was building my hooch. We Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. by the time they got to us AWC# 5 we would be awake (hopefully) and report in. Well, the Camp Tein Sha barracks got me for Friday, and Saturday. Chn Thnh Camp. [4] : 2 Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968 from Monkey Mountain nstar48 Media item Jan 30, 2008 camp tien sha monkey mountain united states navy seabees vietnam war year 1968 Comments: 2 Category: Images of Vietnam China Beach from Monkey Mountain 1968 China Beach and Marble Mountain from Monkey Mountain Vietnam 1968 nstar48 Media item Jan 30, 2008 changes to : to pull a copy and edit in the I held that little girl until it started to get dark and I had no choice but to give her to the nurse and walk back to the base. [1] In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. This is surely just something I've 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. 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. I guess that is why there were a lot of E-2 in the Marines. I didn't think about the danger but was aware of it. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. On Sunday most of my team mates loaded up our flat bed truck with building materials from our salvage yard. Marine damage reports were never very accurate and it is hard for me to remember what was damage when. called to general quarters was in The Post office took a close hit and there was damage to 3 ambulances by sick bay and a bunch of trucks at the motor pool. Some time that day the Catholic Priest who was in charge of the clinic and also the Da Nang orphanage showed up . really care. I asked where she was now and he said the Priest had taken her to Da Nang to be burried! It was a horrifying thing to watch. We were not part of the Marine Civil Affair but worked independent of them. Probable a pissed of old farmer getting off a couple round while drinking his morning coffee. What was done was done! Tour: August 2, 1969 through July 17, 1970. I surveyed 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! To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! for references to information received from that's one of our generators upper left. This is the Hoa Kahn clinic at the time I started working there. I spent 1968-72 in the US Navy, as a Corpsman (Medic). paths and painted white and there were white picket fences around almost every 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. 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. 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. Ok, I 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! this pic sure isn't it, at least from Danang, Republic of Vietnam. 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. Unfortunately when we got there it was closed for one hour for lunch and Coate did not have the time to hang around. Vietnam War Wannabes | Page 3 | Senior Forums I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. Soon we came to the bridge across the Han River. It is very likely this was were the Marines were killed . This is the inside of our shop.The office was upstairs and to the left. Mountain. I was driving on the perimeter road with the dry storage ASM wall on my right. Bringing the War Home . . . (II) | News | The Harvard Crimson 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. I actually took the class in 1965 but at that time you had to be 18 years old to get a Scuba Certification. Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. 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. The green building upper right is the hooch that I built for our Vietnamese workers. The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. ! Not all the time but sometimes . This was the closest skivvy house to Camp Books , a very short walk. boats took place at the other base. And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. "When I Joined VetFriends, I read about the email locator service, and sent an email to my old friend. Then he could pick my guys up and pick up materials to build my hooch. What that means is we stood a four hour night watch every other night. . hair cutting all my time there aside One about half way from knee to foot and the other just below the knee! It was a Saturday, perhaps we were finishing up the cook shed. It was Then there were the incoming Rockets, we had three big generators and fuel tank and we were a bulls eye. Naval Support Activity Danang - Wikipedia Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. On Friday I left the shop at 1800hr and went to the Children's Clinic. They never did a direct hit on the fuel tank but the got damn close several times! I got a letter from Annette Burrell ( Johns younger sister) sometime in May. The two crew members jumped out just under the flames .They carried their M-60 machine guns. But when shit happens to you and you are the victim, everything changed! That sure screwed with our sleep! I thought they were trying to lighten their load. 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. Before I went into the Navy I had a Welcome! Anniversary story of his trip back They were trying to fly that chopper to the safety of Camp Books. The Seabee construction crews he is referring to was my crew. The War - The Boy in the Apple Orchard The next work order I got for there I gave it to Beerworth and told him I would not work there any more! Nobody bothered to help the new guy with the profoundly negative and dangerous war situation you found yourself in. As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. Memoir of my time served with the Navy at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang, during the Vietnam war. Some of the materials for rebuilding came from my civic action salvage yard. The Marines in that ambush had fired on me to scare me because they thought I was the duty officer making the rounds. The base appears to remain in use by the PAVN. The huge fuel tank was just being build on the left out of the picture. The two guys shot in the skivvy house that night were, Pvt. The road was closed to civilian traffic at night so there would be no other vehicles on the road. Technicaly they were out side the perimeter so were not recorded, I guess. My barracks was an old French barracks at Camp Tien Sha near Da Nang. All of the rounds hit in swamp area between the main base and FLC command building . - Alan, Drawing because of all the flares in the mountains next to the base. The argument got pretty heated. Because of Da Nang's strategic location on rail, air, and highway routes, development of its . On 27 February 1969 a People's Army of Vietnam rocket hit LCU-1500 while it was loading at the Bridge Cargo Ramp killing 13 crewmen. The ESSO fuel plant from the north east side where we were snorkeling. I got my NAUI Scuba diving cerification in July 1966. 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. Level the frames and tie them to the stakes and I would have my concrete forms complete. Photo's by Vietnam Veterans page 3 - CAMP SABRE It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. He seemed totally comfortable and relaxed. Recent photo of Cheryl and me 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. 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. to develop this map. MST1 and thought it would be a good time to go back and see know what it was about "shower 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 side of the handling, I'd say it had severe understeer entering a Browse millions of high-quality stock photos, illustrations, and videos. Often times during a rocket or mortar attack rounds would over shoot landing in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch ,providing children for the Clinic. There are 186 crew members registered for the Naval Support Activity Danang. Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm - 1967 | 1968 | 1969 - now Register and add yourself to the Crew List of the Naval Support Activity Danang. That was necessary because Cn Th Base Camp. Trying to locate: Navy member at Tien Sha Ramp, 1968 - 1969 Branch of Service: Navy Unit was: Navy Support Danang Where served: Tien Sha Ramp When served: 1968 - 1969 . 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. Please feel free ( the rules for Camp Books were that to be off base you had to have a weapon). [3]:8, In April 1972 all US Navy facilities in Danang were transferred to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.[4]. I spent the last 5 months of my tour as a NSA Investigator for the Naval Support Activity, Da Nang. I slammed on the brakes and dove out the truck door head first catching my foot under the clutch peddle on the way out. middle , Mr Kim a Korean Philco Ford electrician . This was I would sit at the desk and drink coffee, write letters or poetry. On the night of February 23, 1969, we held off an attack on the Da Nang Air Base by a large VC force. meand I translated it to this map. A small craft repair facility and an Auxiliary Floating Drydock (AFDL) helped keep NSA vessels in working order. One Square Mile of Vietnam: Da Nang - BBC News "Ya, there has been a sniper shooting at the fence crew every morning for the past week. On May 21,1968 at 2400 hr. 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. blocked. 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 ! Between 1969 and 1971 hundreds, if not thousands, of incidents of racial violence occurred in and around American military bases Then of course there was the dreaded incoming 122mm and 140mm incoming rocket. I held the door open for them. Because I had to fend for myself I did help the newbies who moved into my hooch. Statewide Water Diversion and Fish Passage Coordinator (Senior It's claim to fame was that it had a black prostitute. Management and planning of the logistic flow needed refinement, as ships arrived en masse with cargo improperly stowed and packaged. Then walk the length of pier re-installing any buffer pads that might have come out. There wasn't much blood ,just a small whelp where the bullet went in. Over 130 rough terrain and warehouse forklifts and 20 cranes eased cargo handling. was directly below the building One of them used to take me to the MACV Club located by the USS Repose. In March 1965 when United States Marine Corps combat troops landed at Danang, the support establishment was rudimentary. That episode followed rioting along China Beach by black . Right. It Fay, although it must have happened. I jumped into the fighting hole beside the post and yelled at the Marines there "holy shit some one is shooting at me!" 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. Camp Tien Sha | Military Wiki | Fandom 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. Camp Tien Sha Vietnam 1968, viewed from Monkey Mountain. 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. [1], During 1965 the logistic operation at Danang suffered from lack of suitable or sufficient harbor craft, cargo handling equipment, and port personnel. once. NMCB THREE Main Body Flights consisting of three passenger . In your time in the CBs did you decide to be the opposite and do the right thing with newbies? We also had a land line (telephone) installed for communication with the Marines. 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! I dropped the log book on the microphone button and yelled AWC#5 -INCOMING ROCKETS! This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command. 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 . She was wearing light blue pajamas with little lambs printed on it. It We were working with basic hand tools, cutting everything with one cross cut handsaw. Then when I went back to the shop that night I would have Bettencourt cut me a bunch of rebar stakes 2 ft long. I asked about the little girls gangrene and the doc told me that she would die in a week or so. Camp Haskins, Da Nang, Vietnam, served as headquarters of the 30th Naval Construction Regiment, who exercised operational control of Seabee units deployed to Vietnam. 2023 iStockphoto LP. Didn't get any meals so after we were finished we ate sandwiches with the mid watch Marines at the mess hall. Camp Tien Sha, Vietnam. Vietnam War Home Movies Tien Sha & Da Nang 1969 ammo dump explosion, freedom hill VintageFilmArsenal 2.48K subscribers 37K views 8 years ago Go to vintagefilmarsenal.com to purchase a. All the stuff that related to the Drinking black coffee trying to stay alert. U S Naval Support Activity Danang Vietnam 1969 Yearbook - Worthpoint Late in the day we had built them a nice hootch and had them moved in. Looking back, have The poor farmer had stepped on a mine. He was honorably discharged in 1968 after completing his tour in Vietnam, as Petty . Fishing Boats of Da Nang in The next weekend I asked about the farmer ? Vietnam veterans, age 60+, American. Go through their front gate then out their back gate to the causeway. Well I don't know how much of an impression that left on me but these guys getting killed in the Skivvy house got my attention ! would be thinking about that meal a lot! maps) office in the White Elephant. at Camp Fay. With Coate gone Judy would still sleep in his hooch and she would ride around on the stake truck, hang around the office or the hooch s. Judy hated Marines, and Vietnamese men but she was alright with Vietnamese women as long as they treated her nice. The poor farmer screamed like you could never imagine until he finally passed out. embarrassed but she didn't seem to During the day of May 21 or May 22 Bettencourt took our flat bed truck to covered storage in Danang to pick up supplies while he was there a bunch of Navy trucks were lined up to load beds and lockers to furnish some barracks at Camp Tien Sha . I served there and just would like to hear from some of the guys that was there. Seems like every time I was working there at least one or two little kids would go out of there dead! in Subic and got a pro hair cut. Style attributes. Some part of it was always listening to what was going on . worked that jeep to it's limits and had a highly entertaining time I was shocked when he told me she was only 15 years old! I was https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval_Support_Activity_Danang&oldid=1137856150, Military installations of the United States in South Vietnam, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Naval History & Heritage Command, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 February 2023, at 20:12. It was more the "ambulance" configuration with a 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.

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