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. 16. NASM.2018.0025 Da Nang air base in the mid- to late-60s was the busiest (and possibly the largest) airport in the world. Stationed with 1882n Comm Gp., 1969-1970, worked in the Base Comm Center. [Peter Halferty photo]. The National Police arrested 25 of the crowd and quickly dispersed the would-be demonstrators. [1]:154, The ROKMC sent three companies to close the southern link and then moved forward into the attack. No rockets fell on the main airbase but Marble Mountain sustained some damage. The Marine squad lost one killed. [1]:149, The fighting did not subside with the coming of daylight. The attack started at 12:25 AM and an estimated 50 rounds of 122mm rockets were fired at the installation. The NVA launched hundreds of rocket attacks on DaNang Airbase trying to hit the bomb dump. 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. Shortly after midnight on July 15, 1967, Da Nang Air Base in Quang Nam Province, RVN, came under a heavy rocket attack. 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. VMO2, where I would spend the next thirteen months, was just south of DaNang. About 03:30, two more Marine tanks from the district town of Hieu Duc arrived at the northern fringes of the hamlet. A warning order and plan prepared by the VC Da Nang City Committee called for a preliminary attack on the city by sappers and VC troops. In the 7th Marines sector, the Marines described the same type of activity as well as increased enemy infiltration. 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. "We carried bullet clips in our pockets, but no weapons, because the rifle boxes were nailed shut in their shipping crates. Obtenez des photos d'actualit haute rsolution de qualit sur Getty Images Some 36 of the large missiles landed on the main base, including the airfield. In the ensuing firefight fought at a range as close as five meters from one another with the Marines achieving the upper hand. [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. The skirmishing south of the headquarters near Ha Vang, however, continued. DaNang earned the nickname Rocket City during the Vietnam war, having been attacked over 900 times in 10 years. As various outposts reported their sightings to the Division FSCC, the artillerymen then shifted these fires to actual sites. The Vietnam Security Police Association Web site features several additional recordings of rocket attacks on Da Nang Air Base. Davis notified the division headquarters of his findings. [1]:147, After a lull of about an hour to an hour and a half, the enemy gunners renewed their assault on the Air Base and Marble Mountain Air Facility. Marble Mountain Air Facility supported USMC helicopter operations throughout southern I Corps. Captured 122mm Tripod Launcher. As the defector from the 401st later revealed, his unit lacked "weapons, experienced soldiers, and transportation manpower." 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. 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. Suspected excavations camouflaged with tree branches were seen on a peninsula 6 miles southwest of Da Nang. Robertson later compared the enemy activity that night to a "10-ring circus." Under cover of darkness, elements of the VC R-20th and V-25th Battalions had crossed the Cu River and penetrated the Ha Vang village complex. Mortars and recoilless rifle rounds continued to land inside the headquarters compound from enemy firing positions in Ha Vang. 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. Moreover, once the PAVN units arrived south of Da Nang they "made no further attempts at maneuver even while being hunted by Marine and Army units, and when engaged, seldom maneuvered, except to withdraw." [Peter Halferty photo]. 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. The Air Force watch officer on duty protested, "that's too close, you'll never get a clearance for it." About 01:00, a Marine platoon from Company G, 2/7 Marines, positioned near the Nam Bridge on Highway 1 crossing the Cu River north of Da Nang, saw another two enemy on a raft with a wooden box. 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." Nha Trang Air Base is a military airfield in Vietnam, located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northwest of Nha Trang in Khnh Ha Province. The ARVN 51st Regiment operating in the southern sector of the Da Nang area of operations came across evidence including documents pointing to a buildup of PAVN/VC strength together with probes of Allied defenses. Darkness prevented Sailfish from observing the number of casualties that the artillery and air inflicted upon the enemy. These rockets had a range of several miles and were deadly. # Not in AF records, submitted by members, # Not in AF records, submitted by members, Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1960-1973. At the same time, the 1st Division had sent out several reconnaissance elements. He and Randall agreed that they would deploy one of the battalion's two reserve provisional Quick Reaction platoons composed of headquarters personnel. The USAF 620th Tactical Control Squadron established a control and reporting post (CRP) code-named Panama on the mountain in 1964 to support operations from Danang Air Base. About 03:30, perhaps to divert Marine attention from the ground assault on I Corps headquarters and the city of Da Nang, enemy mortars opened up on Marble Mountain. Would like to get in touch w/anyone attached to Security. soldier and wounding two. A detachment of four LVTP-5s from the 3rd AmTrac Battalion quickly arrived, but the enemy had already departed. According to the U.S. [1]:1456, At 03:00 the PAVN/VC hit even closer to the Marine command nerve center at Da Nang. The battle for Da Nang was largely over. At in Bn, the 51st Regiment reinforced by the ROKMC contained the attack. Beginning their attack about 03:00, two companies of the V-25th Battalion used the noise of firecrackers set off and general firing by Tt celebrants to cover their approach. You comrades should act as heroes of Vietnam and with the spirit and pride of combatants of the Liberation Army. Open to all Vietnam Veterans that served at DA NANG Air Base of ROCKET CITY from 1971-1972. Employing small arms fire, satchel charges, Rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and Bangalore torpedoes, the sappers thrust through blown gaps in the Marine wire. [1]:159, While the Marines successfully thwarted this attempt, between 01:00 and 05:00 on the morning of the 6th, PAVN/VC gunners mortared or rocketed all of the command posts, fire bases and company combat bases in the 7th Marines sector. "[1]:144, By evening on the 29th, the 1st Marine Division at Da Nang was on 100-percent alert. Vietnam Rocket City 1971-1972, Palm Bay, FL. He personally believed the plans were impractical and deserted at the first chance he had. The Marines killed two and wounded the third. 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. [1]:142, While activity in the Army's 23rd Infantry (Americal) Divisions areas of operations in Qung Ngi and Qung Tn Provinces was somewhat diminished, there was enough enemy in northern and central I Corps to cause concern for both the American and South Vietnamese commands. In Jun-Jul 1970 gave the base to the RVN and went back to DaNang. Bringing up two artillery platoons , the ARVN gunners lowered their pieces and fired pointblank at the VC. The ROKMC, while not finding any sizeable forces, continued to encounter small enemy units and boobytraps which took their toll. In the Southern Sector Defense Command, just north of the Cu River and west of Highway 1, a PAVN/VC 12-15-man sapper squad blew a hole in the defensive wire of the joint perimeter of the 7th Engineer and 7th Communication Battalion. 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. Accompanied by tanks and LVTP-5s, Company F maneuvered to the north of the ARVN base. Another sapper squad, about the same size as the one that carried out the earlier attack, penetrated the 1st Marine Division Subsector Bravo combat operations center and communications facility on Hill 200, less than 1,000 meters from the main command post on Hill 327. The artillerymen sustained two wounded and some equipment damage, but escaped relatively unscathed. Still photo images extracted from the vintage footage are also available for immediate download. In the morning, the Marines discovered blood trails and three PAVN bodies in the vicinity of the explosions. The Marines assaulted the island and the fighting continued throughout the night and into the next morning. Robertson observed that the delay of the 2nd Division into the picture may have been because the PAVN forces "got their signals mixed " The VC were supposed to be inside "when the [PAVN] division came marching down main street. See our A-Level Essay Example on Vietnam war, Modern European History, 1789-1945 now at Marked By Teachers. 17 apr 1966: arab 511, an a-1h (buno 135398), lt (jg) william l. tromp, va-115, went down following a night attack on coastal targets, near approximately 1818 . CMSgt (Ret) Gary Chaffin, who was at Da Nang with the 366th Civil Engineering Squadron, recalls this attack much as Dick does. In one operation near Dien Ban, the ARVN 51st Regiment sustained losses of 40 men killed, six missing, and 140 wounded while accounting for about 80 enemy dead and 13 prisoners. By the afternoon of the 31st, the Marines and Rangers had completed their sweep. The Marines and PF troops fired at armed members of the crowd who appeared to be directing the march. 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. On 29 January, a local village chief told the security officer of the Naval Support Activity at Camp Tiensha that about 300 VC would attack the Marble Mountain transmitter that night. The first U.S. air strikes also occur against the Ho Chi Minh trail. They fired, killing one of the enemy underwater demolition team, while the other member surrendered to the Marines. The PAVN 2nd Division still remained intact, but was not about to renew the offensive. After calling in helicopter gunships, the ROKMC, at 13:20, reached the MACV compound and linked up with U.S. advisors there. 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. "[1]:1578, The greatest danger to the TAOR at this juncture, however, was from the south in that area defended by the ROKMC and the ARVN 51st Regiment. VC gunners from Ha Vang, nevertheless, maintained an intermittent mortar bombardment upon the I Corps tactical operations center. Two days later, Marine intelligence officers learned that the PAVN 21st Regiment was in the Go Noi area. "[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. Firing 290 105mm shells, the tractor artillery reportedly killed about 80 of the PAVN attackers caught in the open. Davis, the commanding officer of the 1/7 Marines, recalled that his unit began to take fewer casualties from surprise firing devices or boobytraps and began to suspect that enemy troops unfamiliar with the terrain might be attempting to move into his sector. [ Bob Kaatman photo ] One of the first caches of bombs to explode. The enemy had also planned to hit the main airfield at Da Nang. They also mortared and rocketed MAG-13 at Chu Lai on 31 January 1968. On 14 February 1965 the Marine 1st LAAM Battalion established its anti-aircraft operations center colocated with the USAF CRP. A 19-year-old sentry assigned to a listening post at a U.S. air base gets caught in the crossfire during a Viet Cong attack. Lm arrived at the headquarters compound shortly after dawn. During the day, the division had positioned 11 reconnaissance Stingray patrols along likely enemy avenues of approach. Da Nang Air Base was one of the major air bases used for offensive air operations within South Vietnam and for the support of USMC and ARVN forces. The Flightline, Funny Money, Rocket shrapnel. * The first attack was made by both mortars and sappers. 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. III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) had its headquarters at Hill 327 west of the Air Base, while ARVN I Corps had its headquarters north of the Air Base. Cam Ranh Bay AB: US Army 6th Convalescent Hospital debris by Sapper Attack! Naval Support Activity Danang operated extensive logistics facilities on the Tiensha (Tin Sa) peninsula east of the city. The fighting during the preceding week had drawn down the strength of the ARVN and the two Marine battalions and the PAVN 2nd Division still had uncommitted units that it could throw into the fray. Shortly after 18:00, an air observer reported seeing 25-30 enemy troops in trenchlines, bunkers and fighting holes. Army advisor attached to the ARVN unit. Citation Nr: 1224394 Decision Date: 07/13/12 Archive Date: 07/18/12 DOCKET NO. March 2, 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder begins as over 100 American fighter-bombers attack targets in North Vietnam. Even in the face of the artillery, the PAVN continued their advance upon the Marine positions. At 20:00 on the night of the 5th, a Marine platoon ambush from Company C, 1/7 Marines intercepted about 60 PAVN troops about 4,000 meters south of the Ty Loan River in the western sector of the area of operations moving northeast towards the river and the base with mortars and automatic weapons. [1]:1445, About 02:30, the PAVN/VC struck the perimeters of the Da Nang base itself. After calling in artillery which resulted in three secondary explosions, the reconnaissance Marines reported seven enemy killed. 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. I was assigned to the 1st Marine Division and sent to Marble Mountain Airfield to Join Marine Air Group 16 and VMO2. Next Photo. These included Hills 65 and 52 manned by companies of the 3/7 Marines in the southwestern part of the TAOR and Hill 41 defended by Company D, 1/7 Marines in the central western sector. He ordered the 3rd Amphibian Tractor Battalion to form a blocking position on the southeastern bank of the Vien Dien River. More like this Camp Friendship Korat Cat Air Force Special Operations Vietnam War Photos May Bay North Vietnam Air Force Bases Vietnam Veterans Robertson later praised the Security and Communications platoons of the 1st Marine Division Headquarters Battalion for their efforts in the defense. Rummage soon determined that the total number of PAVN approximated 500 or more men, moving in two columns. [1]:1445, In scattered and intermittent attacks beginning before 02:00 and lasting about one-half hour, PAVN/VC gunners fired both mortars and rockets that landed near positions of Marine artillery, antiair missiles, and the Force Logistic Command at Red Beach Base Area. + Casualty figures reflect all casualties, i.e., USAF, other military and civilians. Local villagers told the Marines that at least one VC had been killed in the brief skirmish. Glasgow, Steve: YN3: Mar 20, 1969 - Mar 20, 1970: US Navy Post Office @ China Beach: . The attack force would consist of two groups, one to move by land and the other by water to knock out the bridge separating the city from Tiensha Peninsula and to capture the I Corps headquarters. NMCB-7 sends a Disaster. 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. The provisional company linked up with two ARVN Ranger companies that were operating in the area to contain the battalion from the PAVN 4th Regiment which had slipped through the Hi Vn Pass the night before. Rocket attack on the Da Nang Air Base that took place, Da Nang, Vietnam, January 30, 1968. at Bien Hoa Air Base, those in II Corps were consolidated at Tuy Hoa Air Base, and those in I Corps were consolidated at Da Nang Air Base [Carmichael 1972; Cecil 1986; Hull 2002; Young 2006]. He moved Company M, 3/7 Marines from its fairly remote position on Hill 52 in the far western reaches of the Vu Gia River Valley above the An Hoa Basin to the more centrally located Hill 65. One battalion was to deploy immediately, with the other to deploy the next day. Caught east of the Cm L Bridge and Highway 1, on a small island formed by the convergence of the Cu , a small tributary of the river and the Vien Dien River, the VC turned to fight. On the afternoon of 7 February Marine helicopters deployed the 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment into the hamlet of Duong Son (1) (155852N 1081124E / 15.981N 108.190E / 15.981; 108.190) 2km south of Cau Do. [1]:1423, From other sources, the Marine command learned of other ominous measures taken by the PAVN/VC forces in the Da Nang sector. About two-and-a-half hours later, the VC units "ceased fire and withdrew." The rockets destroyed five aircraft, nine items of ground equipment, two vehicles, and one warehouse outright. 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." The only Marine casualties were two men who failed to vacate their "hootches" in time. 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