This exhibit is now closed. I had plenty of time to take it all in and it was very UN-nerving. It really, really broke my heart! afford at the time and they taught me a lot about handling vehicles. march in columns of two over to that building. "Sorry that's all we have!" kms.) half, aside from the times that I area or any of the DaNang area, I will continue . 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 . Drive out the back gate and about 2 miles to the Navy Seabee base. This is the inside of our shop.The office was upstairs and to the left. background old PTF Base and Monkey We were not part of the Marine Civil Affair but worked independent of them. She smelled horrible! 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. It was not exactly what you would call a state of the art mental hospital ! Modern. Our shop the day we put up our sign and officially became Area Work Center #5. Memoir of my time served with the Navy at Camp Tien Sha, Da Nang, during the Vietnam war. We had no black out lights on our trucks so we would have been any easy target for anyone who decided that they were going to kill us! shower heads came out from the side She wanted to send care packages and letters to me as part of a High School project. I believe we also tied him around the waist. I had to make a quick exit when the patients got excited when I walked towards the main ward! Detachment Chu Lai - 1964 - 1971. Then I started paying more attention. [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. He was honorably discharged in 1968 after completing his tour in Vietnam, as Petty . I was finished with my concrete forms before noon on Wednesday . February 1969. Coate gave me two sets of shorts and short sleeve shirts. I served until 1970. I was one of the unlucky ones who ended up shoveling a lot of shit! If US Mail works best for you, We were also vulnerable to sappers . It must have been about 1100 hr. Great Discounts & More! there. The United States used it as a major base during the Vietnam War (1959-1975), stationing Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine units there. 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 It was creepy doing that trip to the causeway. Everyone had his turf marked out and nobody was willing to give any for me. It was a Saturday, perhaps we were finishing up the cook shed. There was only one hospital bed and a couple cots in the building at that time. May 5,1968 was my first rocket attack in Vietnam and you can see the hit 7 different places in my AO including my new home at FLC Camp Books. The doc had no idea but it was a sure thing she was going to die. This building was about 24 ft wide and 200 feet long and was a two story building. the fresh meat so what do I know about it. It became the headquarters for all U.S. when I was there. If your lost and want At the moment it happened, my buddy Dave Lozier and I were at Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. U.S. MARINES IN VIETNAM THE DEFINING YEAR 1968. by. Work started at 0700 hr and we got off at 1700 hr. [4] : 2 Funny thing about the base exchange was I only went there once my whole tour. Naval Support Activity (NSA) Danang was officially established on 15 October 1965. Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. I think the thing that Me, age 23, sitting on my bunk drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette. LCU-1498, then the chart office at the White Elephant. Once at the PTF base the jeep So I would start the mornings dancing around the job site until the sniper was done and then we would get to work. whatever you say Mr. 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. Do you have CAMP TIENSHA, DANANG,VIETNAM Reunion information you'd like to share. two parts, right and left, I have to ( Short timers uniforms were your oldest most faded fatigues but always clean and well kept.) The wounded man was the Mess Sargent who was the only one at the mess hall at the time. I have nothing but respect for those that were. While I was building the door the Doc and nurse moved in medical supplies to the shelf unit. I started building the 3 strong backs at 7 Motors on Monday morning June 3rd. I didn't understand at that time the danger of rocket attacks. to Danang. He didn't mince words. " On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. If they were caught they were punished by court marshal and were busted one pay grade. Then I could triangulate my frames ,run some string lines, pound in the rebar stakes. Detachment Phu Bai - 1965 -1970. I also came down with a mild case of the flew so was feeling rather worn out. head has about the lightest colored I never really realized the high level of tension we lived under until I left Vietnam ! All terrain forklifts would scurry back and forth off Naval Communication Facility. You forget the bad things and you remember the good ( very much reminds me of cutting up chickens at butchering time). quarters. It had 4 windows so I went to the window for H. I handed the clerk my records pack. meand I translated it to this map. Because of Da Nang's strategic location on rail, air, and highway routes, development of its . I was probably in as much in shock as the farmer. In mid-October 1968 the Deep Water Pier complex ( 16.12N 108.214E) on the Tien Sha peninsula was completed, beginning operations in September 1968. DaNang Harbor. The kids head had been stitched up and looked just like a soccer ball. I even passed an enlisted sailor with a can of white paint and he was I dont know a damn thing so When that needle went in that poor farmer screamed and jerked up headed for the ceiling! and went on Stephen was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving state side and in Vietnam at Camp Tien Sha, Danang. He expired nine days later. There was a bunker there. That was necessary because Some time that day the Catholic Priest who was in charge of the clinic and also the Da Nang orphanage showed up . Nobody bothered to help the new guy with the profoundly negative and dangerous war situation you found yourself in. Later after they landed it became obvious that they were throwing out the ammo boxes so they wouldn't explode when they landed. The bundle was given to the mother who would take the bundle out side and set it down in the dirt by the street. I was driving on the perimeter road with the dry storage ASM wall on my right. So as May 1968 ended I had been in Vietnam for 1 month! The hardest things for them to figure out was the batter boards, how to measure and cut rafters and how to measure and cut gable end studs. Despite the repeated assurances uttered by our senior non-commissioned petty officers that Camp Tiensha's location on the peninsula that juts out from the City of Danang, and with the location of the Danang airbase on the opposite side of the city itself, generally put our base beyond the purported 7 mile range of the Russian-made 122 millimeter Katyusha rockets . Some times I would bend the rules and just let them go and I would take care of checking them out. I donated money several times while at Camp Books. You FNGs I held the door open for them. naval reserves just before graduating from high school in 1962. On the "left side" was all the Same short blond bristly hair, same small bullet hole, and same very damn dead! time does that. The doc asked if I could baby sit the little girl while he and the nurse did a surgery. Probable a pissed of old farmer getting off a couple round while drinking his morning coffee. it, there were about a dozen shower After I let them go I was sitting on my tool box waiting for the crew truck to come pick me up. Some of the materials for rebuilding came from my civic action salvage yard. Some times a lot of shit happened . [1], By July 1968 NSA Danang handled 350,000 tons of cargo each month for the 200,000 allied troops in I Corps. On the technical [4]:2[2], In August 1967, the headquarters of NSA Danang was moved from downtown Danang to Camp Tien Sha. We went downtown in Long Beach, and we got harassed a lot. The shop doors were always open and a light on in the shop. Pham Ba went around back to take a pee. this pic is. morning. Detachment Hue - 1965 - 1970. Most of them would be dead by now as most of the men were in their mid forties then . Technicaly they were out side the perimeter so were not recorded, I guess. Total Area Sprayed (sq. While base facilities were under construction, the fleet deployed to Danang LSTs, a Landing Ship Dock (LSD) and an Attack Transport (APA), the latter for quartering and messing NSA personnel. what it is like now. Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam. Seabees, initially using materials pre-stocked before the war in Advanced Base Functional Component packages, constructed three deep-draft piers for oceangoing ships, two 300 feet (91m) wooden piers an LST causeway and the Bridge Cargo Complex that consisted of a 1,600 feet (490m) long wharf, 300,000 cubic feet of refrigerated storage space and 500,000 square feet of covered storage space. Inside of that trailer, face down were 2 dead Marines. T are sections in the book about Camp Tien Sha, Cua Viet, Dong Ha, Tan My, Hue, Phu Bai, Chu Lai, and Sa Huynh. Still, These detachments decentralized the support function and improved the logistic flow. boats took place at the other base. So my hooch would now have 5 of us. The map I sent you is how I remember that . to develop this map. hair cutting all my time there aside Some morning I would be more tired when I woke up than when I went to bed. 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! 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. Although the helicopter was only a couple hundred feet out there was no way to put the fir out as they couldn't cross the mine field. right out of there. Provinces. Download this Camp Tien Sha photo now. little early to get back in school and finish my degree. distributed to ships coming in. I believe that on May 21 we had hits to the sick bay which was a big rebuild job. Despite these positive interactions with whites, African Americans did not view the armed forces as an institution free of racial prejudice. Pilot, youre the one flying the plane. During my research I found an entry in the Diary of Marine Lieutenant Don Griffis who was CO of the Provisional Rifle Company who operated patrols out of Camp Books. This would also give Beerworth time to get his guys out on their job. Soon there were Marines all over the place. I had orders in September 1966 to go to Didnt take long to figure out that everyone could see that you were a FNG. My barracks was an old French barracks at Camp Tien Sha near Da Nang. Sandoval. One night I was in the office with LT Branch . They were only a couple hundred yards away! One night I stood a four hour office watch and another night I was on a four hour barracks fire watch. camp where you get sheared. We found the family and with the help of other refugees were proceeded to tear down their shelter and build them a house. Looking back, have Every morning I was stripping floors and then in the afternoon waxing and buffing and cleaning the showers, normal Navy grunt work. 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. I knew I wasn't in Kansas. In the early days the security perimeter of the base was only about 50 feet from our shop and was not very well guarded. of the guys took to securing a Beerworth dropped us at 1st MPs. I forgotten how much it sucked being there? The enlisted head Da Nang Air Base (1957-1975) was a Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) facility. and drop their bow ramps. right , Huan one of my carpenters. [1] In November 1965 500 men moved into the old French Army camp, Camp Tien Sha at the foot of Monkey Mountain. at Camp Fay. 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 got a letter from Annette Burrell ( Johns younger sister) sometime in May. [2] His name was Coate and he was a 3rd class yeoman. The base appears to remain in use by the PAVN. It was losing altitude and we were wondering if they would make it. "When I Joined VetFriends, I read about the email locator service, and sent an email to my old friend. The lumber and wood crates in upper right was the start of our lumber yard. The Drawing We set the radio on squelch so it would make a lot of noise and wake us up. 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. to return to 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. Why are you here in Vietnam ? said hours 1700 to 2100. loved cars and fast driving. The doctor and nurse came out of the clinic. On May 21,1968 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. I don't know what the building Da Nang marks the halfway point between Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City in the south. That was my first time seeing dead Marines. Seems like every time I was working there at least one or two little kids would go out of there dead! I have no significant memories I heard the truth the next day at the mess hall. My Vietnamese workers were hunkered down by the lumber pile about 30 ft from me.Then I noticed little puffs of dirt kicking up several feet away from me towards the north. Often several rockets would have gone off before I even knew we were under attack !

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