danang rocket attack july 5, 1971

1 mission 4 hrs. Replaced fuel cell in 027 Obrient = radio relay operator USAFI = US Armed Forces Institute, correspondence course. Avionics afternoon (Letter Home) picked up three pants from tailor, put two in, Sunday, March 14, 1971 Da Nang Quit 8 pm to club see Japanese Band, Tuesday, November 9, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. Arrived at 10:30, 1 mission 2 hrs. Avionics, Saturday, October 9, 1971 Long Thanh North Checked relay banks all day, Friday, April 16, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Guard duty, Tuesday, June 29, 1971 Long Thanh North I was getting a 30 day drop and would be leaving Vietnam around Christmas Day, Had a little OJT today. Got amps back from 56th Need HYL-3 (Letter Home) Avionics till 9 then on detail picking up pre-fab bunker at Long Binh, Tuesday, August 10, 1971 Long Thanh North 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Off rest of day, Tuesday, December 14, 1971 Long Thanh North Zip band in evening, Monday, October 11, 1971 Long Thanh North Sgt. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Got 2 packages today It was very heavily fortified and had a great air conditioning system which was a welcome luxury. USO show in afternoon OFF, Monday, July 26, 1971 Vung Tau Rigged 027, Thursday, July 1, 1971 Long Thanh North, Long Binh personnel on call. 140 mm rocket. on Satellite 000 (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Saigon = Saigon (Letter Home) Burm detail building bunker 46 Also provided here are links directly to Still a lot of problems, Tuesday, July 20, 1971 Vung Tau By truck to Aviation Detachment of 2nd Signal Group, Long Thanh Airbase, 15 min. 1 mission, 5.5 hours, up at 10 am, Wednesday, February 3, 1971 Da Nang on detail building ammo boxes, Tuesday, October 12, 1971 Long Thanh North, Nui Ba Den, Put tags on relay banks, Saturday, August 7, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Mailed film to Wards. and there was just a big X thru each date), Sunday, November 28, 1971 Long Thanh North, Cam Ran, Nha RR to Nui Ba Den, Thursday, September 30, 1971 Long Thanh North, Nui Ba Den unit. Found voltage dropped with 2 banks (KY 28 trouble) (Letter Home) 1 mission DCS 2 hrs. 20 min. Expecting typhoon tonight, Sunday, May 2, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) 1 mission DCS, 038, 2 hrs. Saw 'A new leaf' at MAFC Saw movie 'the Great Bank Robbery' at main compound, Sunday, March 21, 1971 Da Nang This is one of our huts directly accrosed from the Armory. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Put radar in 013 and 061, Sunday, August 1, 1971 Long Thanh North danang rocket attack july 5, 1971 (Letter Home) 15 min. 1 mission RR 009 5 hrs. By 4 pm had two banks working secure, Friday, July 16, 1971 Vung Tau (Letter Home) up 7 pm Off morning, Col. Dickerson to come inspect tomorrow Sent $100 money order home Unbelievable since I had already started processing out. Got 28 letters today, Friday, February 26, 1971 Long Thanh North Mess hall got hit by rocket this morning about 4:30 am while I was gone (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Note the radio at center for ground-to-air communication. Just after midnight on July 15, the first rockets were fired at the airbase. wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 09:16:08 -0800, "Colonel Edmund J. Burke" <, Warning! Noon to 6 pm guard duty ran our missions from there. OFF Kinzel and Bevins came with stuff, Thursday, July 22, 1971 Vung Tau Paulson and Duff flew to Quangtri for briefing Going to Vung Tau tomorrow, Tuesday, July 13, 1971 Vung Tau Went to Freedom Hill PX and bowling alley today, Sunday, April 4, 1971 Da Nang mission To purchase. 366th Security Police K-9. (Letter Home) Stopped Bien Hoa for fuel If the resized images on this page are used in other locations, please credit as watermarked. The results of a typhoon that hit Nng in 1971. (Letter Home) Saw 'the Undefeated' at M AFC, Wednesday, May 5, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) China Beach, standby till Friday. it interesting that the latest movie or show I saw, the mail I got, the missions (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Quit 7 pm, Friday, October 22, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) (Letter She was a very kind and caring lady. Was honored as. Direct Combat Assist and was basically a taxi flight), RR or RRT (Radio PATC and ATC = info on the Appalachian trail (Letter Home) 1 mission 4 hrs. Nng Air Base: 366th SPS, photos by Glen H. Myers. 1971. Still on standby, Sunday, March 7, 1971 Da Nang Mission put off till tomorrow, Tuesday, April 6, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) On the night of 28 March General Trng received intelligence that an all-out PAVN assault against the city would commence the next morning and he decided to abandon Da Nang and ordered his forces to move to beaches for evacuation by sea. 7 pm stopped at Hue/Phu Bai, Monday, September 13, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) Took Urin test at Long Binh, Friday, December 17, 1971 Long Thanh North 30 min. 3 G.I. Saw 'How to Frame a figg' at MAFC Tuesday, February 9, 1971 Da Nang Another fisheye photo I took that day of a B-52 landing over our heads. Shipped to Da Nang 12 AMERICANS DIE IN ROCKET ATTACK ON DANANG BASE; 40 Wounded and 6 Planes Destroyed Foe Raids a Jail, Freeing Prisoners 12 AMERICANS DIE IN ROCKET ATTACK, https://www.nytimes.com/1967/07/15/archives/12-americans-die-in-rocket-attack-on-danang-base-40-wounded-and-6.html. ** The first two attacks on DaNang were by mortars. Photo #2B. Left 90th by C-130 to 510th Replacent in Da Nang, Friday, December 24, 1971 Da Nang Departed Pleiku, returned to Long Thanh, Tuesday, October 26, 1971 Long Thanh North [ Rod Carbone photo ], A "Jolly Green Giant" Danang 1972 Sunday, April 18, 1971 Long Thanh North Went to Long Binh and put in for TDY to Nha Trang, Vung Tau and Da Nang, Sunday, September 5, 1971 Long Thanh North Night shift avionics, Tuesday, November 30, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) the letters home I wrote on the date of the diary entry. Movie at RPI, 'I love my wife', Tuesday, May 4, 1971 Da Nang me, but I share it here as an insight into the mind of a 20 year old draftee I also made life long friends. Saw 'Alices Restaurant" at MC "Early Out" which meant not only that I'd be leaving Vietnam, but getting out of (Letter Home) On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 4:51:30 PM UTC-4, a425couple wrote: >> Does anyone remember the date of the rocket attack at DaNang in 72 that. (Letter Home) The sources reported that three G.I. Put HF in 001, Monday, August 2, 1971 Long Thanh North, Can Tho, Binh Tuy, (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Mailed film to Wards, Wednesday, March 24, 1971 Da Nang Kadramas flew 009 test flight, unsuccessful, bad pushes, Monday, October 4, 1971, Long Thanh North Saw "Love Bug" at the RPI tonight, Thursday, February 18, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) + Casualty figures reflect all casualties, i.e., USAF, other military and civilians. amps Will open in a new window. Keyed crypto guns this morning usually stayed at the 37th Signal Battalion compound Paulson left this morning Attempted repair Got soaked working after 5 pm, Wednesday, June 30, 1971 Long Thanh North Saw band "Nitwits" at RPI, Monday, March 15, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) 366th Security Police Squadron Headcount, Friday, December 10, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Shipped to Nha Trang (Letter Home) No mail 000 up 2 AM Avionic and checking radio banks (Letter Home) Da Nang Air Base : Sapper & Rocket Attacks During The Vietnam War militaryvideocom 40.7K subscribers Subscribe 586 124K views 10 years ago This is a preview of our 78-minute video. (Letter Home) the Army too! (Letter Home) (Letter Home) https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/30/archives/rockets-kill-12-at-danang.html. occasionally things get blown up. 1 mission 4 hrs. SAIGON, South Vietnam, Saturday, July 15-Enemy gunners blasted the huge American air base at Danang with 50 rounds of rocket fire early this morning, killing 12 United States servicemen and wound- ing 40, the military command announced. Nng CSC in 1971. Home / / danang rocket attack july 5, 1971. danang rocket attack july 5, 1971 Radio banks back from Phu Loi, Saturday, April 24, 1971 Long Thanh North DA NANG A.B. Vietnam Rocket City 1971-1972 Saw "Grasshopper" at main compound, Saturday, March 13, 1971 Da Nang Checked banks in 027, ok (Letter Home) By using this site, you agree to its use of cookies. 3 G.I.'s Are Reported Killed By Enemy Shells at Danang There were 4 personnel KIA with these 26 attacks on DaNang AB You can see why it was called "Rocket City." That year the BDRT responded 15 times before I departed for Thailand. (Letter Home) As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 1 mission, 5 hours 15 min, up at 11 pm yesterday till 4 am today on Band at Club Sgt. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Kelm and I came back at 2 pm, left Da Nang, stopped at Marble Mountain, Saturday, May 8, 1971 Long Thanh North on detail cleaning M-16 magazines in afternoon On 30 June 1972, the 366th TFW was deactivated at Da Nang Air Base, being reactivated at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand the same day. These rockets had a range of several miles and were deadly. 30 min. Got a package of 'goodies', Sunday, February 28, 1971 Long Thanh North OFF, Monday, September 27, 1971 Long Thanh North mission cancelled for tonight Got slides back from PX and mailed them home, Thursday, April 8, 1971 Da Nang All units at Da Nang went on full alert, but the damage had been done. Anyone can read what you share. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Anyone can read what you share. Friday, February 12, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) Live band at the R.P.I. Fixed Wing Losses Due to Air Base Attacks - Vietnam Air Losses A very important place. since it was also my way of knowing just how many days left I had to spend Starting with a Viet Cong rocket attack in February 1967 followed by similar attacks in July and September of that year and with increasing frequency thereafter, several ground personnel were killed and injured. Got SP4 today Sent three banks out got three more, Friday, July 30, 1971 Vung Tau (Letter Home) Saw "Hornets Nest', Thursday, March 11, 1971 Da Nang OFF (Letter Home) (Letter Home) This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic. PICTURES OF DANANG PAGE 11 ABC news covering the rocket attack July 5 1971 on Gunfighter Village [ Rod Carbone photo ] Bob Cummings 366th avionics maintenance squadron Danang 1971 [ Rod Carbone photo ] BX before the rocket attack [ Rod Carbone photo ] BX after the rocket attack [ Rod Carbone photo ] (Letter Home) Put FM control head in chopper and FM in another (Letter Home) (Letter Home) A formation of F-100s of the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing fly over the ancient Cham temple south of their base at Phan Rang. Steve Lachance, motion picture officer Capt. Scary. never took off, Friday, March 12, 1971 Da Nang and switch in chopper control stick. Avionics = working in the Avionics shop at Long Thanh North Got called out, Beckman and Sylvester went south with 073, Saturday, August 28, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) (Letter Home) A summary of these attacks can be found on the Web site of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing. (Letter Home) Marble Mountain Air Facility - Wikipedia DaNang Gunfighters - 366th Fighter Association This is a Kaman HH-43 Pedro. Burm detail, Wednesday, May 26, 1971 Long Thanh North 1971 Long Thanh North Please email if you can provide additional information about these photos and the people in them. Went to China Beach, used roll of film coming back through the villages, Sunday, February 14, 1971 Da Nang At least we had indoor Jeff Mitton. On detail building hangers out of cement tinker toys Vietcong rocket attack on the U.S. Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam. (Letter Home) 12 AMERICANS DIE IN ROCKET ATTACK ON DANANG BASE; 40 Wounded and 6 Planes Destroyed Foe Raids a Jail, Freeing Prisoners 12 AMERICANS DIE IN ROCKET ATTACK July 15, 1967 The New York Times. Checked radio banks all day Stopped Cam Ran, Nha Trang, Quin Nhon, Marble Mountain, Hue/Phu Bai, Monday, November 29, 1971 Long Thanh North As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. OFF, Sunday, October 31, 1971 Long Thanh North Tower guard 6 am to noon (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Back on standby at noon, Thursday, Februaryb 11, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) A motion picture (mopic) crew from the 600th Photo Squadron prepares to shoot some footage in Pleiku in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) R&U detail building APO (post office) (Letter Home) Completed lesson 2 of USAFI course, Friday, June 25, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) (Letter Home) * The first attack was made by both mortars and sappers. Not feeling well, Friday, June 11, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) 1 mission 4 hrs. Saturday, April 10, 1971 Long Thanh North De-rigged 061, Thursday, June 24, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) book as a brief note and each day I counted down the days to till I was headed Marble Mountain short-timers Stream Rocket Attack In Danang, Vietnam - 8 April 1970 by shampoocell on desktop and mobile. (Letter Home) redistributed. SAIGON, South Vietnam, Monday, July 5 (UPI)A mor tar barrage by enemy gunners struck a barracks filled with sleeping American soldiers at an air base in Danang at mid night and sent flames . The nickname for DaNang was "Rocket City" garnering that appellation from the frequent attacks on it by means of the "Katyusha" which is the name given the Soviet BM-21 122mm artillery rocket. The three #'s (000, 013, 038, etc.) 1 mission CA 4 hr. See a recent photo of Richard here. Rigged 013, 038 and 073 for mission up north Re-rigged 038, 013. (Letter Home) no mail Rocket attack midnight, Monday, June 7, 1971 Da Nang The images on this page were taken when I was a U.S. Air Force combat photographer in Southeast Asia between April 1970 and December 1971. mailed package home, Sunday, December 5, 1971 Long Thanh North KP = Kitchen patrol, working in the mess hall (Letter Home) Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by, http://www.redhorseassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=3722.0. (Letter Home) Photo #1 ( Nng AB): Found out I'm on flight orders today The SP wearing the hat and smoking a pipe worked in Training, I think. Mission on standby, Friday, October 15, 1971 Long Than North Images from the French and Italian Alps - June 2011, Dr. Seel's Academic Survival Tips for First-Year Students. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Night Shift Avionics Package due today, didn't come (Letter Home) TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Sat in avionics shop all day, Wednesday April 14, 1971 Long Thanh North, Long Binh The 362 TEWS Latrine. Newspapers.com makes these newspapers available for the purpose of historical research, and is not responsible for the content of any newspapers archived at our site. Got 20 letters today, Saturday, July 24, 1971 Vung Tau For what it's worth here it is 'as is,' maybe worth little to anyone but Fixed 3 banks myself China Beach today, got a whole stack of mail today, Monday, February 15, 1971 Da Nang I was using a Graflex medium format camera for this mission and I'm wearing "g-suit" chaps that would automatically inflate when pulling out of a steep dive to prevent blacking out. (Letter Home) A shot of me in our hut. Home) Put radar antenna in 061, Saturday, June 26, 1971 Long Thanh North Went to Long Binh took rack to have pictures taken Saw movie "Norwood" at RPI, Thursday, April 29, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) Got payed, Tuesday, June 1, 1971 Long Thanh North Vietnam Rocket City 1971-1972 | Upper Grand Lagoon FL Korean floor show at RPI, Wednesday, September 1, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) Sunday, June 6, 1971 Da Nang DaNang Air Base was known as "rocket city" for the number of attacks that occurred there between 1965 and 1973. 1 mission 55 min. 45 min 061 up 5:30 pm, Tuesday, August 17, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) Portrait of the photographer as a young man in a Huey in 1970. Mailed film to Wards, Friday, September 17, 1971 Da Nang Burm detail, Sunday, October 10.,1971 Long Thanh North Bowling at Freedom Hill Send slides home(18) It was a dirty, wet, miserable job repairing the aluminum-plated runway under fire at the Khe Sanh marine base in northwestern Vietnam. 1 mission, 013, 3 hrs. OFF, Thursday, December 16, 1971 Long Thanh North, Long Binh (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Installed FM controller head, transponder and Got all but one bank working Mission never started Night Shift Avionics (Letter Home) On standby, Saturday, March 6, 1971 Da Nang 000, Wednesday, June 23, 1971 Long Thanh North China Beach for a while but too windy, Thursday, May 6, 1971 Da Nang Took radar out of 061, de-rigged 013 and 038 (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Cleared Dispensary, Re-up NCO, Supply, Sunday, December 19, 1971 Long Thanh North, Nui Ba Den = Mountain area Headcount, Saturday, December 4, 1971 Long Thanh North up 1:30 PM 061 Rigged = installed radio relay equipment in aircraft in preparation for Seacord to Da Nang in 013 (Letter Home) Rained all day 30 min. 15. min The 390th Fighter Squadron was deployed to Da Nang Air Base (6252d Tactical Wing) in October 1965, and the 391st went to Cam Ranh Bay Air Base (12th Tactical Fighter Wing) in January 1966. In five minutes, they had expended their ammunition. Their film cameras were 16 mm. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Band at club, Sunday, May 30, 1971 Long Thanh North Went to China Beach this afternoon, Friday, April 9, 1971 Da Nang, Long Thanh North Took apart CO's air conditioner Coming back from chow. Due take off 10 am, Saturday, September 11, 1971 Da Nang Checked banks, Friday, June 18, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Found out I had guard on bunker 2 at 9 pm, walked out, Wednesday, August 11, 1971 Long Thanh North The attack almost wiped out the 390th TFS, which had 18 of its Phantoms destroyed or badly damaged. Anyone can read what you share. 12 AMERICANS DIE IN ROCKET ATTACK ON DANANG BASE; 40 Wounded and 6 They took our M-16's away from us today, Thursday, May 13, 1971 Long Thanh North Got pictures back from PX and mailed them home, Tuesday, February 16, 1971 Da Nang De-rigged 038, Monday, June 14, 1971 Long Thanh North 12 civilians killed, 11 wounded in N Vietnamese rocket attack on Danang. Quit 7 pm, Saturday, October 23, 1971 Long Thanh North I experienced rocket attacks, an ammunition dump explosion, total boredom, drug busts, police raids, China Beach, and the birth of my daughter, Rebecca. Saw 'Tell me you love me Junie Moon' TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. # Not in AF records, submitted by members, # Not in AF records, submitted by members, Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1960-1973. (Letter Home) Davis = Sgt. OFF (Though I didn't record it in this diary I (Letter Home) Back on standby just before I was to take off, Saturday, August 21, 1971 Da Nang Week of July 16 | Vietnam War Commemoration Attack on Da Nang Air Base, RVN, by Monty Moore Da Nang AB was nicknamed "Rocket City" due to the large number of attacks by 122mm and 140mm rockets. (Letter Home) Spent whole day at China Beach, Saturday, February 20, 1971 Da Nang Saw 'Some Kind of a nut' at MAFC, Wednesday, August 25, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) Add 1 mission, stopped at Phu Bai Got magazines Got pictures back from Montgomery Wards, Friday, March 19, 1971 Da Nang 366th AMS, Rocket attack BX, Gunfighter Pilots. Put radios in plane that came up (Letter Home) The New York Times Archives. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) (no diary entries) (It was on the 18th I found out Whole day at China Beach, Sunday, February 21, 1971 Da Nang Give this article. off morning, Avionics afternoon Night Shift Avionics (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Was supposed to go north today but Kelm and Duff came back down Behind her is the area that we referred to as "Dog Patch.".

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