Stayed overnight at the 21st Signal Transient barracks, Tuesday, June 22, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) 1 mission - 4 hrs. PDF Attack on Da Nang Air Base, RVN, by Monty Moore (Letter Home) up 7 am On ammo detail to Long Binh, Friday, July 2, 1971 Long Than North, Vung Tau (Letter Home) (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Col. Dickinson came for inspection (Letter Home) Supposed to be on burm detail but cancelled Duff says me and Seacord are on his ARCOM orders DA NANG A.B. Vietnam Rocket City 1971-1972 standby at airfield 3 pm to 7 pm Went to Freedom Hill PX and bowling alley today, Sunday, April 4, 1971 Da Nang Scary. 20 min. Sgt. Stopped Bien Hoa for fuel Long Binh = airfield and military base Mission kicked off Got 4 RT's and 3 more Amps, Sunday, July 25, 1971 Vung Tau 366th Security Police Squadron (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Pictures of Danang 11. Saw 'Graduate' at main compound, Monday, March 22, 1971 Da Nang Left 0800 this morning (Letter Home) (Letter Home) 366th AMS, Rocket attack BX, Gunfighter Pilots. Got payed and got 22 letters Me to Da Nang in 038 Saw "Support your Local Sheriff" at main compound, Wednesday, March 17, 1971 Da Nang OFF, Saturday, December 18, 1971 Long Thanh North Burm detail building bunker 1, Thursday, September 23, 1971 Long Thanh North Mission kicked off this evening (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Guard duty bunker 6, Saturday, October 16, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Waiting. View Full Article in Timesmachine , See the article in its original context from. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) 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) (Letter Home) Rigged 000, 013, 061 for Relay standby to Da Nang Nng Air Base: 366th SPS, photos by Glen H. Myers. 1971. Headcount Skoog = crew chief [ Rod Carbone photo ] Find Da Nang Air Base stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. 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. (Letter Home) Direct Combat Assist and was basically a taxi flight), RR or RRT (Radio (Letter Home) As I recall I finally left Vietnam on the day after Christmas Duff and Kelm went to Da Nang this morning, Tuesday, April 20, 1971 Long Thanh North Rigged 013, 038 and 073 for mission up north (Letter Home) De-rigged 061 Night shift Avionics, Thursday, October 28, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Between fifty and eighty-three heavy rockets hit the base. ran our missions from there. Rocket attacks in 1972 Da Nang Vietnam (Letter Home) [CBS] Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger is in South Vietnam; Vice President Spiro Agnew is in Singapore. (Letter Home) Printed a few more pictures, Wednesday, June 2, 1971 Long Thanh North Put radar antenna in 061, Saturday, June 26, 1971 Long Thanh North Checked radar in a couple of ships, Sunday, June 27, 1971 Long Thanh North, Long Binh Looking back I find Headcount, Sunday, December 12, 1971 Long Thanh North Photo #7 ( Nng AB): Checked banks, need new KY-28, Wednesday, July 14, 1971 Vung Tau OFF, Monday, October 18, 1971 Long Thanh North Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Night Shift Avionics, Saturday, November 6, 1971 Long Thanh North Hot at 5 AM, mission terminated at 11:30 am just before I was due to fly (Letter Home) occasionally things get blown up. USAFI = US Armed Forces Institute, correspondence course. To say the least, the war was a tragic time for most Vietnamese -- south and north -- and this photo of an elderly woman selling cigarettes in downtown Saigon in 1970 captures that sadness. All but middle ok, no xmit, Tuesday, July 6, 1971 Long Thanh North 45 min 061 up 5:30 pm, Tuesday, August 17, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) Saw 'Raid on Rommel' at RPI, Tuesday, August 31, 1971 Da Nang Try 7 Days Free to get access to 854 million+ pages, Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive. Rigged 009, Sunday, October 24, 1971 Long Thanh North, Pleiku 1 mission 061 returned to Long Thanh 2 hrs. Avionics, Sunday, May 23, 1971 Long Thanh North The results of a typhoon that hit Nng in 1971. OFF, Monday, July 5. Took off morning, avionics afternoon Guard duty 6 pm to midnight (Letter Home) Avionics - radar in 038 HF = High frequency radio Shipped to Da Nang Electric off in hanger all day A motion picture (mopic) crew from the 600th Photo Squadron prepares to shoot some footage in Pleiku in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Headcount breakfast and dinner All rights (Letter Home) Signed out (Letter Home) To Vung Tau, returned 4 pm Friday, October 29, 1971 Long Thanh North This photo was taken during an airborne assault by Vietnamese troops into a hot LZ northwest of Saigon. Off rest of day, Tuesday, December 14, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Put HF in 001, Monday, June 28, 1971 Long Thanh North July 1967, Vietnam War, U.S. Air Force, . 56th fixing control amps (Letter Home) (Letter Home) 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. . (Letter Home) Got SP4 today Clip: 65675029937. Package due today, didn't come (Letter Home) Saw movie 'the Great Bank Robbery' at main compound, Sunday, March 21, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) An F4 high above the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam. Beginning in May 1972, the forces of the USAF were drawn down at Da Nang. Mission put off till tomorrow, Tuesday, April 6, 1971 Da Nang up 7 pm, Thursday, October 14, 1971 Long Thanh North, Bien Hoa He attended high school with my brother Skip, graduated from the U.S. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Avionics afternoon Cleaned orderly room (Letter Home) Gunfighter Village = Air force compound in Da Nang Standby till Monday Got pictures back from Montgomery Wards, Friday, March 19, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) 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. Home) 1 mission 009 5 hr 10 min. ], Remember the fine restroom facilities? Beckman went to party at German Hospital boat tonight, Friday, September 3, 1971 Long Thanh North Saw 'Bob Whites' at RPI, Saturday, March 20, 1971 Da Nang 1 mission, 5 hours 15 min, up at 11 pm yesterday till 4 am today on (Letter Home) 000 up 2 AM 1 mission DCS, 038, 2 hrs. Vietcong rocket attack on the U.S. Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam. Night Shift Avionics Avionics, Thursday, July 8, 1971 Long Thanh North Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by, http://www.redhorseassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=3722.0. (Letter Home) Whole day at China Beach, Sunday, February 21, 1971 Da Nang She was a very kind and caring lady. We were flying inverted to take this photo. associated electronics that functioned as a relay unit. Supposed to go to NaTrang but turned back, Monday, May 3, 1971 Da Nang During the attack, Lieutenant Colonel Verle E. Ludwig's 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, south of Marble Mountain, came under small arms fire, but apparently this was a feint designed to fix the unit in its defensive positions. Rained most of day, Tuesday, March 16, 1971 Da Nang Lots of work on 061, Thursday, October 21, 1971 Long Thanh North Went to Long Binh to pick up TDY pay, $148.38, Thursday, April 15, 1971 Long Thanh North Kadremas = radio relay operator Their film cameras were 16 mm. (Letter Home) Burm detail, Sunday, October 10.,1971 Long Thanh North Duration: 1 min 20 sec. (Letter Home) Davis = Sgt. Rocket attack, Tuesday, April 27, 1971 Da Nang 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. Got 20 letters today, Saturday, July 24, 1971 Vung Tau Still a lot of problems, Tuesday, July 20, 1971 Vung Tau [ Rod Carbone photo ], Taken of me in a f-4 Danang 1971 [ Rod Carbone photo ], Took this one out on the flightline Dec. 1971 [ Rod Carbone photo ], Gunfighter PilotsDec.1971 Got magazines in mail today, Wednesday, March 10, 1971 Da Nang Kinzel and Bevins came with stuff, Thursday, July 22, 1971 Vung Tau Photo #9 ( Nng AB): (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Photo #5 ( Nng AB): Me on an APC. (Letter Home) Flew to Da Nang Completed lesson 2 of USAFI course, Friday, June 25, 1971 Long Thanh North Berry and Schenning left (Letter Home) This is me processing out for emergency leave after getting word that my mother had died. Week of July 16 | Vietnam War Commemoration (Letter Home) Base orientation brochure, Perimeter, Tent City. OFF Nng AB Results of a rocket attack 5 July, 1971 next to the Chow Hall. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Seacord = radio relay operator Sylvester = radio relay operator Saw "Love Bug" at the RPI tonight, Thursday, February 18, 1971 Da Nang Worked on Satellite 000 radios (Letter Home) The temple is a key tourist attraction in the area today. Took Urin test at Long Binh, Friday, December 17, 1971 Long Thanh North and was home and mustered out of the Army within a few days. *** The first time that rockets were used in RVN by the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army. . Photo #8 ( Nng AB): Photo #3 ( Nng AB): Checked radio banks all day As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. (Letter Home) 1 mission, DCS, 013 1 hr. See a recent photo of Richard here. The Army is reporting a 2% heroin addiction rate for soldiers leaving South Vietnam. Will open in a new window. Keyed crypto guns this morning China Beach (Letter Home) 9 missions, 009, 1 hr. OFF, Sunday, October 31, 1971 Long Thanh North Got amps back from 56th Wasted time (Letter Home) (Letter Home) A high number of casualties were Vietnamese civilians living in a village just east of DaNang Air Base. Those two banks didn't work this morning, blew fuses in 6 RT's It was very heavily fortified and had a great air conditioning system which was a welcome luxury. 's were killed and 36 wounded in the shelling. (Letter Home) This is one of our huts directly accrosed from the Armory. China Beach today (Letter Home) Sunday, June 6, 1971 Da Nang Put 2 mike cords in choppers, Tuesday, May 11, 1971 Long Thanh North, Long Binh Saturday, April 17, 1971 Long Thanh North Pictures of Danang 9. Off morning All units at Da Nang went on full alert, but the damage had been done. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Half day work (Letter Home) (Letter Home) A Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) A-37 drops a bomb on a position near Bien Hoa in 1971. Went to USO show, Wednesday, June 16, 1971 Long Thanh North These airmen worked very long hours to keep the planes repaired and in the air. 1 mission 4 hrs. Was guide-on bearer for change of command ceremony (Letter Home) Photo #6A, 6b, and 6c ( Nng AB): At the firing range. Back on standby just before I was to take off, Saturday, August 21, 1971 Da Nang 12 AMERICANS DIE IN ROCKET ATTACK ON DANANG BASE; 40 Wounded and 6 Pictures of Danang 8. Band at club, Sunday, May 30, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) (Letter Home) OFF, Monday, July 26, 1971 Vung Tau (Letter Home) As official USAF photographs they are in the public domain and as such are also in the Creative Commons. On the night of July 14, the new 122mm launchers were set up in six batteries, each with six launchers. Da Nang Air Base ( Vietnamese: Cn c khng qun Nng) (1930s-1975) (also known as Da Nang Airfield, Tourane Airfield or Tourane Air Base) was a French Air Force and later Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) facility located in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam. 3 G.I.'s Are Reported Killed By Enemy Shells at Danang Mission kicked off, I fly tomorrow morning, Wednesday, April 7, 1971 Da Nang I worked as complotter on Cobra Flight for about half my time at Nng. Paulson went back to get payed Checked radios in 038 OK, Sunday, October 17, 1971 Long Thanh North On detail this morning moving timbers Asked for my mail today, Wednesday, July 21, 1971 Vung Tau Half day off (nothing), Friday, February 19, 1971 Da Nang Keyed guns = set codes on radio encryption devices Flew back to Long Thanh this afternoon, didn't log it. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or The same aircraft in the photo above releases two bombs on an NVA truck park on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the jungle below. there. * The first attack was made by both mortars and sappers. As you can see we had it pretty rough. Sent $500 home Son Nhut Airspace. Flew back to Long Thanh this afternoon Avionics till 9 then on detail picking up pre-fab bunker at Long Binh, Tuesday, August 10, 1971 Long Thanh North 013, Wednesday, August 18, 1971 Da Nang Satellite XXX = refers to various U-21 aircraft used and maintained by our Sgt Krouse is following me. Did PM on CO's air conditioner, Saturday, June 12, 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 Got pictures back from PX and mailed them home, Tuesday, February 16, 1971 Da Nang Attacks on Da Nang Air Base North (Letter Home) One sapper was captured. OFF Got payed today, Saturday, February 27, 1971 Long Thanh North It was not until March 1966, HQ 366th Tactical Fighter Wing, the 389th TFS and various support units of the wing entered the conflict and were reassigned to, 366th FIGHTER ASSOCIATION AUDENTES FORTUNA JUVAT, Outstanding Unit Award w/Combat V Citation 1970-72, Colonel Thomas Moe: American POW in North Vietnam, 366th Fighter Group Memorial Dedication Ceremony NMUSAF, 366th Fighter Group Monument Photo NMUSAF, 366th Fighter Group Memorial and Tree Photo At The NMUSAF, A-1 Airfield Memorial Dedication - France, In the early days at Da Nang, pilots were frustrated that they were missing opportunities to shoot down enemy MiGs because the F-4C lacked a cannon and its missiles were ineffective at short ranges. Got one set of banks working (Letter Home) Rigged 073 before I left Night Shift Avionics, Thursday, November 4, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Arrived Da Nang 2 pm Started this evening as headcount, Thursday, December 2, 1971 Long Thanh North Quit 7:30 pm, Wednesday, November 3, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) High-resolution original photos (without watermarks) are available from the National Archives in Washington, DC. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) identified the aircraft and were Sunday morning. Went to Vung Tau and hit beach I also made life long friends. Went to Long Binh took rack to have pictures taken (Letter Home) 1 mission, 2 hrs, Satellite 000 Checked radio banks Quit 6 pm, Wednesday, September 22, 1971 Long Thanh North 2 rocket attacks early this morning (Letter Home) Wednesday, June 9, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Arrived Bien Hoa, Vietnam 10:30 pm, Wednesday, Jan 27, 1971 Long Binh Nui Ba Den = Mountain area Nui Ba Den. R&U detail building APO (post office) Wednesday, February 10, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) (no diary entries) (It was on the 18th I found out One of the guys in our hut was pretty clever when it came to "finding" items of comfort, provided we gave up some of our rationed items. + Casualty figures reflect all casualties, i.e., USAF, other military and civilians. (Letter Home) Long Thanh North = Army airbase of same name and home base of 2nd (Letter Home) Band at RPI tonight Would not release us to go south (Letter Home) Finished reading 'Earth Tool Kit', Monday, August 30, 1971 Da Nang 10,000 ft. above Nui Ba Den Mountain(Letter Home) (Letter Home) Departed Pleiku, returned to Long Thanh, Tuesday, October 26, 1971 Long Thanh North 1 talking about this. Missed USO show at 5 pm (Letter Home) If the resized images on this page are used in other locations, please credit as watermarked. 1 mission, 5 hours, up 3:30 am in Satellite 038 Took a roll of slide film to Gunfighter PX, Wednesday, February 17, 1971 Da Nang Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) usually stayed at the 37th Signal Battalion compound Saw 'Barefoot Executive' at RPI, Friday, August 27, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) China Beach for a while but too windy, Thursday, May 6, 1971 Da Nang Practice alert this evening, Thursday, April 22, 1971 Long Thanh North 000, Wednesday, June 23, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) and there was just a big X thru each date), Sunday, November 28, 1971 Long Thanh North, Cam Ran, Nha
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