I jumped into the fighting hole beside the post and yelled at the Marines there "holy shit some one is shooting at me!" Our office was up stairs. A very nice book. Had tied their hands behind their backs and executed them. If it had detonated when it hit the ventilator we both would have been killed! I was 19 but not a drinker. Suddenly the helicopter went nose high and stopped going forward. Issues related to race and race relations helped to define the African American experience in the United States, and these same issues defined the experiences of black soldiers in Vietnam.Race relations in combat were typified by cooperation, shared sacrifice, and a sense of brotherhood. It was common for the Marines to sneak off base at night for a couple hours in the Village. Very close now and it was clear that they weren't going to make it over the hurricane fence at the perimeter. She promised not to eat Puppy. 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 very first Trouvez d'autres images libres de droits dans la collection d'iStock, qui contient des photos de Vietnam facilement tlchargeables. 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. I pretty much walked the whole base then back to the EM club for a cold beer Port bow of the barracks craft shows no. It seemed a bit strange to see everything so neat and tidy when Keep exploring. Well, the Camp Tein Sha barracks got me for Friday, and Saturday. Spent many watches all over the city of Da Nang. That distance above us was only 4 feet. A love affair. The road was closed to civilian traffic at night so there would be no other vehicles on the road. After the little girl died I never went back to the clinic. What we finally did was a one man 12 hour watch. 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. The field had been filled with red dirt and rocks and had been compacted with heavy equipment. It had been built the end of April so was brand new. 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. Don enlisted in the US Navy and attained the rank of Builder Third Class (BU3) with MCB 53. That episode followed rioting along China Beach by black . As such a small group we couldn't do the standard Navy 4 hour watch. NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIBITY DANANG, VIETNAM" patch on the front cover with gold embossed Naval Support Activity Da Nang 1966-67. Friday was an interesting day. Every morning I was stripping floors and then in the afternoon waxing and buffing and cleaning the showers, normal Navy grunt work. that's one of our generators upper left. The building site was about 150 yards outside of the north perimeter and the perimeter had not been opened up yet. This is the inside of our shop.The office was upstairs and to the left. I would have to find some time to build a foot locker. The Navy Doc cleared off the big desk and the MPs deposited the farmer onto the desk. Retro. (Actually, I rode in a truck.) Yes that's me smiling up from the 122mm rocket crater. What the F is wrong with her? The Marines in that ambush had fired on me to scare me because they thought I was the duty officer making the rounds. The next work order I got for there I gave it to Beerworth and told him I would not work there any more! 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. Some part of it was always listening to what was going on . 15 rounds hit us with 3 KIA and 15 wounded. The two guys shot in the skivvy house that night were, Pvt. I started building my hooch on Wednesday May 8th at just before noon. Hard at work in the Investigations Office, Camp Tien Sha annex, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. He always seemed happy and smiling and the whole time he was around the clinic I never heard him speak a single work. It was not exactly what you would call a state of the art mental hospital ! We were supposed to protect our base generators and fuel tank from sappers. ( Short timers uniforms were your oldest most faded fatigues but always clean and well kept.) Danang, VN _ _ DS CS: 1964: Feb 1973: Detachment Bravo, FLTSUPDET, Navcomsta, PI. Wittig, a seaman aboard the USS Pocono LCC 16 who . So just go back to work and keep moving so he doesn't have a stationary target and you should be OK!" You have destroyed my country and my family! )The Doc gave me a large stick like a tongue depressor ,except bigger. I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was I am a 20 year old US soldier and my country says I have to be here! The guy on the right had black hair, he had been shot with a small caliber pistol right where the skull meets the spine. It was very clear that they did not want a FNG getting in their way. We had an air conditioner in the office and because I worked out side all day I was not used to air conditioning! 03/11/66 - Harvey L. Engel, QM1, Lincoln, NE. One of them used to take me to the MACV Club located by the USS Repose. During Vietnam war - Evac. Not all the time but sometimes . They were trying to fly that chopper to the safety of Camp Books. Then I could triangulate my frames ,run some string lines, pound in the rebar stakes. Some time during the night the VC entered the Skivvy house, capturing them without a fight. The This is a 122mm rocket crater in the road in front of our shop. right , Huan one of my carpenters. Naval Communication Facility. You got to do what you got to do ! 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. It was to late to get him settled in because we were so incredibly busy with rocket attack damage. I am not sure what possessed me to write poems there. would be thinking about that meal a lot! just out of the picture on the right. I went back to my cubicle crawled into bed, ending my 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. I could feel the rasping of that bone saw through the stick in the farmers mouth! Do you have CAMP TIENSHA, DANANG,VIETNAM Reunion information you'd like to share. I didn't know it then but that was my last good meal for a long time! ---- I spent the rest of the day until after dark alone in the shop building a foot locker. I donated money several times while at Camp Books. 40 reviews. I was in country from June 1969 to June 1970. 1968 - Harold Goldman's Cobra Gunship Hue 1970, submitted by Roger Carver Hue 1970, submitted by Roger Carver . At the base of Monkey mountain was Camp Tien Sha, the main Navy base. Port side of APL-30 (Auxiliary Personnel Lighter) or barracks craft. I served there and just would like to hear from some of the guys that was there. So after the 2400 check in I would jump in the truck with M-16 and ammo. This is the day I started my real job. Nang officers billeting ! In the future I 11/03/70 - John D. Shewmake Sr., SFC, Adona, AR. The other important thing we had to do was to check the Red Beach causeway at 2400 hr. 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. (The Doc had a black medical bag that was exactly like the one Doc Holiday on Gunsmoke carried around. 2021/09/07 Cpl. Around back there was a Jeep with a utility trailer on behind. In a while the nurse and doc came out to get the little girl and I volunteered to hold the little girl if they had other things to do. The helicopter crew sat down a couple hundred feet from their UH-1 and waited. There was about a weeks over lap so the knew Chief could learn his job! Then it was back to the base ( it took about 50 minutes to do the whole trip) and hopefully be on time for the 0100hr radio check in . Photo libre de droit de Camp Tien Sha banque d'images et plus d'images libres de droit de Vietnam - Vietnam, Base militaire, 1968. From 1800 hours until 0600 we had to have some one stand watch. In July 1966 the "Bridge Cargo Ramp" (160307N 1081352E / 16.052N 108.231E / 16.052; 108.231) began operations increasing NSA's supply capability. We took several trucks and picked up Pham Ba and Babyson outside the gate and headed down the road. 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. Here is the letter I wrote my parents on May 15, 1968. "Honcho come", he pulls me around the Quonset hut, his eyes were as big as saucers! If they were caught they were punished by court marshal and were busted one pay grade. I hated that phone, radio, air conditioning and black coffee! It was where the French first landed in the 19th Century in their quest to control the area and where . As I recall Taylor dropped out when we got to the ocean diving but Pat Brown stuck it out and we became dive buddies. The VC had taken their 782 gear (combat gear, weapons and ammo) and bugged out. 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. I'm at camp Tien Sha at Da Nang now . Between 1969 and 1971 hundreds, if not thousands, of incidents of racial violence occurred in and around American military bases That's how we got our beds, enough for everyone. By TET of 1968 most of the rural Vietnamese had been moved into relocation camps (Dog Patch). It was in a large dirt field 150 yards outside of the north perimeter. Older Vietnam veteran who served in the US Navy at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang, 1968-1969. Another thing that screwed up the night for us was our night radio, phone watch, it was a real bitch ! MCB 53 was decommissioned at Davisville, Rhode Island on 10 December 1969. I think it was on May 22,Wednesday when I was on the night radio,phone watch that I wrote my poem about this event. I would have to wait a few more days for that to start. It was about the most insane thing I had ever experienced and was hard for my mind to grasp what had just happened. I didn't understand at that time the danger of rocket attacks. He left me sitting there on the steps saying he would send Beerworth down at 1700 hr to get me settled in. The fire was caused by a Air or artillery white phosphorus flare ( WP). Then we saw a little dot far up Elephant Valley. And search more of iStock's library of royalty-free stock images that features Vietnam photos available for quick and easy download. The base appears to remain in use by the PAVN. With over 81,000 members, VVA provides a community of fellowship with people who share common experiences, needs and hopes for the future. 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. Because I had to fend for myself I did help the newbies who moved into my hooch. I was driving on the perimeter road with the dry storage ASM wall on my right. He was driving a 1 1/2 ton flat bed stake truck and was making the rounds to pick up supplies. As soon as they caught on they would take on that task and I would move on to the next. very first day of war. It was losing altitude and we were wondering if they would make it. 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. 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. It is also one of the top international surfing destinations. The shop doors were always open and a light on in the shop. This would also give Beerworth time to get his guys out on their job. One night I was in the office with LT Branch . There was no time off just the same 12 hr work shift. It turned 90 degrees to the right and touched down between two rows of concertina wire in the middle of the perimeter. One night I was called out for some lights on the west perimeter. 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. On the left thought though was he was just putting on a show for us new guys. 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. Then he could pick my guys up and pick up materials to build my hooch. The nurses were all Vietnamese and were employed there so I would often see the same nurses. TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. When the Doc was finished he told me I could remove the stick. A sad day because we were no longer a Seabee Team ! Here is a poem that I wrote about the helicopter. Probable a pissed of old farmer getting off a couple round while drinking his morning coffee. My head carpenter ,Pham Ba told me about her during the week. 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. A smell I have never smelled again in my life time. The Seabee construction crews he is referring to was my crew. (my home base). Save. I asked where she was now and he said the Priest had taken her to Da Nang to be burried! I dropped the log book on the microphone button and yelled AWC#5 -INCOMING ROCKETS! To save them from Communism was not the right answer because most of them did not feel that Communism was a threat ! It became the headquarters for all U.S. Detachment Cua Viet - 1967 - 1970. What I really Everyone was busy as hell and I didn't have any idea as to what was going on. 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. Bet coming down the trail by the ESSO Plant east wall. Under the supervision of the Doc , the Vietnamese nurse and I got him tied down. The Doc trimmed all the skin and muscle nice and neat adding clamps (hemostats) as he went. went by (so slowly! You FNGs get off the plane and fall in over there. 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. Another interesting point is the H&S Co. We started pouring concrete Wednesday June 5, 1968. Ray Norton. The lumber and wood crates in upper right was the start of our lumber yard. 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. You will use the chain of command ,don't come to me. We went downtown in Long Beach, and we got harassed a lot. What that means is we stood a four hour night watch every other night. Necessarily, more is lost to time than is remembered. [3]:33, In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex (160712N 1081250E / 16.12N 108.214E / 16.12; 108.214) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. After a couple rocket and mortar attacks my brain never went completely to sleep. (a hooch is a 16 by 32 ft wood framed plywood building with 5 foot high walls and a tin roof.) Vietnam Shortimer Calendar, Da Nang area, 8/69 to 7/70, Ray Norton. Let me tell you that wasn't fun at all. While my guys were working I was talking to the Gunny in the hut. 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. Faites votre choix parmi des millions de photos, vidos et illustrations de haute qualit. Short EM3 Camp Tien Sha Fire Department. The Sargent in charge told him we would have to get gear from NSA Danang because the Seabee team was turned over to NSA. If you served in Camp Tien Sha, Headquarters, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. APL-30 or barracks craft in docks at Da Nang Harbor. I didn't realize at the time that the intended target was me and the generators. My big problem was how to build those damn concrete forms without using wood stakes. I heard the truth the next day at the mess hall. I joined the Navy Reserve and went to . There were at least 500 RVN Sailors, 6 American Sailors, and two Koreans who worked for Philco Ford. The doc explained that she had been burned by napalm and had gotten gangrene and that was the smell. 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. Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang Camp Tieu Khu, Binh Duong Province Camp John R. Tine, Kien Phong Province Torello . Well guess what ? When I look back it sure seems stupid but at the time what else could I do? Korean Engineer's I served with in Vietnam 1968 NSA Danang,Maintenace Control Division. The tents were on the right. May 1. cold glasses of chocolate milk, ice cream and an apple to go. This is the poem I wrote about the little girl who died from gangrene. There are other memories of my time working at the clinic. En savoir plus sur les images libres de droits ou consulter la FAQ sur les photos. 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! 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. When I asked the Priest what happened to the kid he said he didn't know, the kid was at the orphanage when he took over. Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. The main supply base for the Marines in I Corp was at Tien Sha near the coast in Da Nang. The huge fuel tank was just being build on the left out of the picture. The only answer I could give them that they would except was. Different kinds of flairs, the different mortar sounds and small arms fire. 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. I slowly walked around the trailer checking them out. An electrician CN (E-3). 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 ! LCM is up to port side of barracks craft. Dock area at Da Nang harbor. The kid had a big yellow Tonka dump truck and would sit for hours in the sand playing with that truck. Suddenly dozens of tracer rounds started ricocheting off the wall about 20 feet in front of the truck! We took 2 122mm rockets about where the crates are. They made runs north to Cua Viet at the mouth of the river (80 miles north of DaNang and 6 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone) and then upriver eight miles to Dong Ha to haul cannon ammunition to the marines. Had fun there, especially since I had to wear civilian clothes. MOS. June 29, 2022; creative careers quiz; ken thompson net worth unix We took a left hand turn at the intersection and headed out the Tien Sha peninsula towards Monkey Mountain. Back at the hootch the Seabees got in a major debate about where to put me. She is always with me ! These positive relations were largely a reflection of the fact that black and white soldiers in combat were heavily dependent on one another. For the time being they were stashed in my hooch and on May 24, Karl Voiles spent his first day assembling beds. 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. Les nouveaux clients peuvent tlcharger cette image en profitant de notre offre dessai gratuit sans engagement. The hooch in back is the doctors office and residents. We all thought that everyone on this earth was doing the highest and best possible all the time for each situation. 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 . ( the rules for Camp Books were that to be off base you had to have a weapon). Our generators were not even running yet so I heard the rocket coming in. The rest of my tour I did what every good Seabee team would do, I stole them ! It was just after 1700 so I was good. Nights in Vietnam were uncomfortable at best. African Americans perceived racial issuesrace relations, prejudice, and discriminationin Vietnam through a lens heavily influenced by their earlier experiences in the United States. Now I know where Barbee is but where is Babyson? It's claim to fame was that it had a black prostitute. Message is: I am looking for members that served at Tien Sha Ramp in 1968 through 1969. The tracer rounds stopped ,I gave it a couple minutes and got in the truck and sped on my way back to the shop! So what did I do for work uniforms ? These Vietnam War photos taken by U.S. Army photographers reveal a side of the conflict that few people have ever seen. 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 . This was a real live human! . For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. Supported COMSEC 705 (Camp Tien Sha), Operation Big Look (Da Nang) and USMC ground missions (1st Radio BN). First I had to do a couple hour job at the 1st MP Quonset hut. Although the rules were they had to go back and check out. Inside of that trailer, face down were 2 dead Marines. 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. On February 10, 1970, SN Robert T. 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