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Despite the Marine patrolling, PAVN sappers, probably from the 2nd Sapper Battalion, blew three bridges and one culvert over Highway 1 in the pass area. 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines was in the north, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines was in the center and 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines was in the south. Company L, 3/5 Marines set up blocking positions on the east bank of the Yen. At in Bn, the 51st Regiment reinforced by the ROKMC contained the attack. There were still ominous signs and actions that the enemy push on Da Nang was not over. Air Vietnam also used the facility from 1951 to 1975 for civilian domestic and international flights within Southeast Asia. "[1]:144, By evening on the 29th, the 1st Marine Division at Da Nang was on 100-percent alert. All clips are licensed royalty-free, worldwide, in perpetuity. In a sweep of the area, the defenders found ammunition clips and bloodstains. 1970, 1st Marines, AFVN, Armed Forces Vietnam Network, Assassination . Bldg. In addition, the 1st Marine Division alerted one company to participate in the relief of Hi An, if needed. At 07:30, the ROKMC reported about 200 to 300 enemy troops still in Hi An. The 3/5 Marines reported "a definite increase of enemy harassment" and the movement of sizeable enemy units into the Go Noi Island area (.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}1551N 10812E / 15.85N 108.2E / 15.85; 108.2). In the 7th Marines sector, the Marines described the same type of activity as well as increased enemy infiltration. [1]:1456, At 03:00 the PAVN/VC hit even closer to the Marine command nerve center at Da Nang. In the pursuit, which amounted to a rout, the VC lost nearly 100 dead. In the Da Nang Vital Area, the artillery regiment, the 11th Marine Regiment, continued to oversee the Northern Sector Defense Command and the 1st Tank Battalion, the Southern Sector Defense Command. 180 Da Nang Air Base Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 180 Da Nang Air Base Premium High Res Photos Browse 180 da nang air base stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. A Company E, 2/3 Marines squad patrol in its regular area of operations just east of the confluence of the Thanh Qut and Vnh in River came under attack from an estimated squad of enemy. Two of the mortar attacks hit the 1st Cavalry Division helipad near the Force Logistic Command area in the Red Beach Base Area destroying two helicopters and damaging eight others and killing one U.S . During one attack I was writing a letter home and thought my guys were injured because of the rocket attack and I remember the no smoking sigh flapping in the wind because of the scrapnel. They also mortared and rocketed MAG-13 at Chu Lai on 31 January 1968. Later that afternoon, the 1st Marine Division helilifted a "Bald Eagle" reaction force from Company E, 2/3 Marines east of the river in an attempt to encircle the PAVN. Guards beat off the . **** TET 1968 The Snack Bar was halfway between the barracks and Base Comm. Doc, as his friends called him, was one of 58,200 Americans that died during the Vietnam War. Rockey then ordered a platoon from his Company K to reinforce Company G. By the end of the day, the elements of the four Marine companies had established their night positions. To the south, in the Korean sector, the ROKMC with the assistance of the ARVN again drove PAVN/VC forces out of the Hi An environs. Lieutenant Colonel William J . [1]:1502, On the morning of the 31st, the Marines of Company I, now reinforced by the ARVN and the AmTrac Marines, surveyed the results of the fighting and continued to mop up the remnants of the VC force. 1969. Local villagers told the Marines that at least one VC had been killed in the brief skirmish. At the same time, the 1st Division had sent out several reconnaissance elements. From their night positions, Company G observers saw large numbers of PAVN approaching them from the north. At 02:40, a squad from the 1/7 Marines, supported by two tanks from the 1st Tank Battalion, moved to assist the embattled CAP unit. According to documents captured later, the two VC assault companies were to pull out at first light, but became bogged down in the city. In the initial fighting for Ha Vang, the South Vietnamese and Americans accounted for 25 VC dead. The battle for Da Nang was largely over. Given also the enemy rocket threat, he still needed to maintain extensive patrols in the so-called Rocket Belt. Below the Marine battalions, the ROKMC 2nd Marine Brigade secured the Hi An sector and the southeastern approaches above the Ky Lam River to Da Nang Air Base. [1]:154, South of Da Nang, in Hi An, on the 30th, the ROKMC, reinforced by elements of the ARVN 51st Regiment, tried to tighten the loop and began preparations to retake the city. Remains of 45-1102; sandbag detail later. According to Davis, a few hours later, Robertson called a division briefing for all battalion commanders. The 6252nd Tactical Fighter Wing was activated at Da Nang on 18 July, 1965, and was responsible as the host unit for operational squadrons assigned to Da Nang, including the 8th and 13th Bombardment Squadrons. In a message to III MAF, Robertson observed "Never have so few done so much to so many. Da Nang was a major base area for United States and South Vietnamese military forces supporting operations throughout I Corps. Instead of calling artillery fire immediately, the reconnaissance Marines arranged with Battery K, 4/11 Marines and a detachment of the 3rd 155mm Gun Battery at An Ha for an "artillery ambush." Although the Koreans and ARVN in a combined operation finally cleared Hi An, PAVN/VC units to the west south, and north of the city continued to press the attack. The 1st MP Battalion completed three sweeps of the Air Base perimeter and the areas just southeast, southwest and just north of the airbase without incident. SAIGON (UPI) - Communist troops blasted the city of Da Nang and nearby military installations with nearly 200 rockets or mortar rounds early today in their heaviest attack on the Northern coastal area in a year, spokesmen said. Archives. The RF/PF suffered 1 PF killed and 10 wounded. Darkness prevented any accurate bomb assessment. Photographer: Unknown Nng Air Base, AKA: Rocket City, often had more than six Silk-Moons of false dawn orbiting the base. The Marine staff speculated that the enemy launched the mortar attacks largely as a cover for the rocket attacks against Marble Mountain. At 19:20, in the same general area, still another Stingray patrol, Sailfish, radioed that about 200 PAVN/VC troops, some carrying 40mm rocket launchers, passed its positions. The only Marine casualties were two men who failed to vacate their "hootches" in time. As the Marine platoon patrolled along the banks of the Yn, a heavy machine gun suddenly opened up. The . [1]:141, A conglomeration of Marine support units, ARVN, ROKMC and two Marine infantry battalions attempted to secure the remaining area. It was damaged by the fire of the adjacent aircraft (BuNo 152588) on the night of 29-30 January 1968. With both fixed-wing and helicopter gunships and more than 120 artillery pieces ranging from 4.2-inch mortars to 175mm guns, Robertson was confident that he could counter any threat that the enemy posed to Da Nang despite the thinness of his manned defenses. The PAVN obviously were bringing the local VC main force units up to strength, even if to do so they had to bring in replacements from the north. Company M advanced toward a hamlet to the south of the ARVN. ** The first two attacks on DaNang were by mortars. In the town itself, 10 civilians caught in the crossfire, sustained wounds, but no civilians died as a result of the battle. "[1]:1434, Before the PAVN/VC forces launched their attack, the commanders prepared to read to their troops a directive supposedly prepared two weeks earlier by the Presidium of the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front. Only the 7th Marines to the west experienced an increase in incidents as PAVN/VC troops moved through the western TAOR to return to their mountain strongholds in Base Area 114 and through Charlie Ridge into Happy Valley. [Peter Halferty photo]. mms, from May of 69 to May of 70. After the fixed-wing aircraft and evacuation helicopter cleared the area, the 11th Marines saturated the area with artillery fire. At Duy Xuyn, however, the PAVN/VC overran the town, forcing the district chief to flee and take refuge with the Koreans. Once more the PAVN/VC failed to cut the main lines of communication into Da Nang. The Air Force watch officer on duty protested, "that's too close, you'll never get a clearance for it." Note: Dick previously sent us some Stars and Stripes clippings mentioning rocket attacks and other "newsworthy items" of the day. Although the Koreans and the ARVN surrounded most of the city, the VC still were able to keep their southern flank open. Scheduled to last eight weeks, Rolling Thunder will instead go on for three years. ARVN intelligence officers speculated that the battalion from the PAVN 4th Regiment was supposed to have spearheaded the attack on the city of Da Nang the previous day, but arrived too late to influence the battle. The III MAF Command Center later that evening radioed MACV in Saigon: "Although the enemy has suffered heavy losses within his local and main force VC units during the past two days, he still possesses a formidable threat utilizing [PAVN] troops poised on the periphery of the Da Nang TAOR. During the Cuban missile crisis, the U.S. Marine Corps deployed a Hawk air defense missile battery from the 3d Light Antiaircraft Missile (LAAM) Battalion to Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, to protect the U.S. naval base from a surprise low-level air attack by Soviet and Cuban aircraft. Two other squad patrols from Company C in the vicinity quickly joined the first squad. The Marines assaulted the island and the fighting continued throughout the night and into the next morning. [1]:153, South of the Hi Vn Pass, in the northern portion of the Da Nang TAOR, in the 2/7 Marines sector, the PAVN were able to close Highway 1 temporarily, but failed to penetrate Allied defenses. CriticalPast is your source for imagery of worldwide events, people, and B-roll spanning the 20th century. 00:00 00:00 What the Captain Means Unless otherwise noted all videos on this site appear on, and are posted here via embedded links to, You Tube. After a quick appraisal of the situation, the I Corps commander turned to the senior U.S. advisor at the I Corps Tactical Operations Center, Army Major P.S. CriticalPast is an archive of historic footage. Still photo images extracted from the vintage footage are also available for immediate download. It didn't take long to get out of bed when the first rocket struck nearby. Some viewers may find some scenes or audio in this archival material to be unsettling or distressing. The C-123's ability to land on short, unimproved fields proved invaluable and the four units served in Vietnam until the end of the war. The area around Nng, especially military installations, was subject to rocket attacks since that February. Da Nang, the main Seabee base in the I Corps area, which bordered North Vietnam, came under repeated attack from Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars. Throughout the day, however, Marine units throughout the TAOR reported incidents. At Da Nang city the Military Region's main force 2nd Division, sapper battalions, the Quang Da province local force battalions and mass forces participating in the political struggle had been preparing since October 1967. Major General Donn J. Robertson, the 1st Marine Division commanding general, kept under his direct control the 3/5 Marines and the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines. They later found four PAVN dead. Those infiltrations prepared the way for NVA ground attacks in the surrounding areas. 14 New Guns For 2022 by B. GIL HORMAN; A First-Year Magnum: Shooting The S&W "Pre-29" by JUSTIN DYAL; Contact; Donate; Eye Candy for the Gentlemen out there "[1]:163 The 391 rockets that hit the base itself the figure was 69 in 1971killed four United States. Two attached U .S. The VC continued to hold the hospital, however, and part of the engineer compound. Shortly after 04:45, General Lm ordered the ARVN 4th Cavalry Regiment, a Ranger battalion and a detachment of National Police to augment the units in Ha Vang and the headquarters personnel forces in the compound. Material and equipment losses, however, were much more extensive. Flares light up the Da Nang area to make it easier to spot infiltrating guerrillas. He later confided to Davis, "Bill, your phone call was right on the money! Westmoreland was convinced that this big push would come either just before or right after Tt, but not during the holidays and probably at Khe Sanh and in the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone sector. According to Washington Post correspondent Don Oberdorfer, Lm pointed with his swagger stick to the enemy's firing positions on the large map in the room and said: "Milantoni, bomb here. CAP Q-4 there continued to hold out. Of the 13-man Recon team, codename Dublin City, one was dead, nine were injured and three escaped unscathed. Pictures of Danang 8. Nng AB: 366th TFW: Rocket Attack! In the ensuing firefight fought at a range as close as five meters from one another with the Marines achieving the upper hand. [1]:158, Robertson began to refine his defensive dispositions at Da Nang so as to counter any further incursions on the part of the PAVN/VC main force units pressing on the Marine TAOR. In the attack, the PAVN/VC fired 122mm rockets at Marine artillery positions at An Hoa, Hill 55 and Hill 10. Miner attached two additional companies to the 3/7 Marines, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines and Company H, 2/7 Marines to cover its extended area. soldier and wounding two. Shortly after 01:00 on the 6th, PAVN gunners opened up on the hamlet with intermittent mortar rounds and small-arms fire. Da Nang Air Base had intelligence predicting a rocket attack any day. They collected some 200 people that they detained for further questioning. This information should also include any information involving plane crashes at the Da Nang base in early 1968. In the meantime, the VC harassed with sniper fire both CAP Q-4 and the nearby Nam O bridge security detachment from 2/7 Marines. The Stand Off Rocket attack of July 15, 1967 was the deadliest attack of the war at Nng Air Base. Later intelligence and interrogation reports of prisoners of war would indicate that the unit that Rummage had intercepted was probably a battalion of the PAVN 2nd Division. Lieutenant Colonel William K . An alert ARVN sentry took the VC under fire near the flagpole. "[1]:158, While the PAVN/VC forces continued to harass allied positions on the night of 31 January/1 February, the intensity of combat did not match that of the previous two nights. Before his death, however, the Vietnamese identified himself as Major Nguyen Van Lam, the commanding officer of the R-20th c Lp Battalion. With the departure of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in mid-January for Phu Bai Combat Base, the 3/7 Marines extended its area of operations to include An Hoa Combat Base to the south. Employing small arms fire, satchel charges, Rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and Bangalore torpedoes, the sappers thrust through blown gaps in the Marine wire. Despite the thinness of the Marine lines and the ability of the PAVN/VC to infiltrate, they never capitalized on these advantages. By dark the Korean had captured the hospital and were in position to relieve the engineer compound. Linking up, under artillery and air cover, the two Marine companies continued their advance until forced to halt because of darkness and then took up night defensive positions. Galand Kramer at the Danang Officers Open Mess, the DOOM Club, so appropriately named for those of us flying into the teeth of North Vietnams AAA, missile and MiG air defenses. The most eastern of the battalions, the 2nd, shared its area with the 3rd Amphibian Tractor Battalion, which was responsible for the coastal sand flats south of Marble Mountain. On 27 January, COMUSMACV General William Westmoreland announced a ceasefire to be observed by Allied forces for 36 hours beginning at 18:00 on 29 January in honor of the Tt holidays. However, because we did not have a firm grasp on the situation, our preparations had been cursory, the movement of our forces forward to seize attack positions had not been well organized and because enemy forces were too numerous and responded fiercely when we attacked, the forces that attacked the city on the night of 29-30 January were unable to seize their assigned objectives. Rockey then directed Company G of the 3rd Marines, also attached to him, to move up along the banks of the Bau Xau River toward a blocking position southwest of the ARVN base to seal any escape route in that direction. Behind the Marine and Korean lines, the ARVN 51st Regiment deployed in support of the South Vietnamese Revolutionary Development program. It also served to block one of the principal avenues of approach to Da Nang from the south. Both the 2/3 Marines to the east of the Army task force and the 3/5 Marines to the south, also reported relatively little enemy activity in their sectors. Further, the National Police reported that VC local leaders from Qung Tn, Qung Nam and Qung Ngi Provinces met in a base area in the hills of northern Qung Ngi to plan attacks on Chu Lai and on Qung Ngi City. Total Marine casualties of this incident on the 30th were 10 Marines killed and 15 wounded, most from the platoon of Company G that was initially ambushed. A high number of casualties were Vietnamese civilians living in a village just east of Da Nang Air Base. At about 07:40, a crowd of 400 Vietnamese civilians made up mostly of women and children and carrying PAVN and VC flags approached the CAP compound. In the engagement, the Marines lost 5 killed and 12 wounded. Within the city itself, VC cadre were to force the "inhabitants into the street for demonstrations and prepare the people for continuing political struggle against the government as well as kill GVN and ARVN cadre. Both battalions would be under the operational control of the 1st Marine Division. After calling in artillery which resulted in three secondary explosions, the reconnaissance Marines reported seven enemy killed. At the briefing, the division G-2 or intelligence officer, told the assembled officers that "they are finally going to come out and fight. Proud to have had . PAVN battalions from the 2nd Division had eluded the Korean and ARVN defenses in the southern sector and had penetrated the defensive perimeter of the 2/3 Marines and 3/5 Marines just below the Air Base. According to an NCO from the PAVN 31st Regiment captured in the fighting, the mission of his unit was to "attack Hi An, five times if necessary, and set up a liberation government. That same day, the 1st Marine Division notified III MAF that "usually reliable sources" told of staging areas south of Da Nang for an impending attack. He ordered the 3rd Amphibian Tractor Battalion to form a blocking position on the southeastern bank of the Vien Dien River. Army personnel were wounded. The Truong Son and the Mekong River are moving. Headquarters Marines quickly manned their defenses and called in artillery illumination and a fire mission. [Peter Halferty photo]. [1]:1467, About 05:45, the 1st Division learned that the VC squad in the I Corps headquarters compound had disengaged and took its casualties with it. 17. At the meeting Westmoreland ordered Americal Division commander General Samuel W. Koster to reinforce Danang. [1]:150, By this time, General Robertson had taken measures to bolster the ARVN south of the Cau Dau. A prisoner captured in Nam O identified a PAVN battalion, probably from the PAVN 4th Regiment, operating below the Hi Vn Pass with the "mission to form civilians for demonstrations." One of the companies captured a German missionary hospital in the city and the other hit the rear base of the ARVN 51st Regiment, the Chi Lng Camp, garrisoned by the ARVN 102nd Engineer Battalion. According to Marine pilot reports, the PAVN/VC had approximately 250 men in the area equipped with automatic weapons, including at least one .51-caliber machine gun. Naval Support Activity Danang operated extensive logistics facilities on the Tiensha (Tin Sa) peninsula east of the city. Again, the Marines killed the VC and once more foiled an apparent enemy demolition effort. Menu. [1]:157, About 5,000 meters to the northwest, later that night, a squad from Company C, 1/7 Marines encountered an enemy force possibly from the same PAVN regiment. During the day, the division had positioned 11 reconnaissance Stingray patrols along likely enemy avenues of approach. "[1]:143, Throughout the Da Nang area of operations, the PAVN/VC began to move into attack positions. 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