From 18:00 to 24:00 on the 30th, the 1st Marine Division reported to III MAF over 30 incidents ranging from sightings of large enemy forces, to mortar attacks and a few infantry assaults. From the south, about a dozen VC used boards to cross the outer wire and ladders and boards to clamber over the compound wall into the courtyard below. 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. More like this Camp Friendship Korat Cat Air Force Special Operations Vietnam War Photos May Bay North Vietnam Air Force Bases Vietnam Veterans The Marine companies then pulled back and called in artillery and air. 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. 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 next few days, Task Force Miracle conducted sweeps in its sector and encountered relatively little resistance . With part of the force establishing blocking positions north of the hamlet, the rest of the provisional company and Rangers moved through Nam O. One sapper was captured. Advisory Group at Da Nang, the PFs and RFs accounted for eight dead VC and captured one wounded VC. After calling in artillery which resulted in three secondary explosions, the reconnaissance Marines reported seven enemy killed. 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. 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. Open to all Vietnam Veterans that served at DA NANG Air Base of ROCKET CITY from 1971-1972. "We carried bullet clips in our pockets, but no weapons, because the rifle boxes were nailed shut in their shipping crates. **** TET 1968 from The New York Times: Police officers provided security for the marchers, and the march concluded peacefully at Maltepe, Istanbul (where . On Jan. 30, a 15-man commando squad penetrated Da Nang Air Base and another squad blew up the "Sector Bravo Combat Operations Center," just 1,000 meters from I Corps headquarters. 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. The reaction force itself came under automatic weapons fire and RPGs disabled the two tanks. He arrived with 19 other soldiers, eight of whom were embalmers. Other disturbing intelligence tended to confirm this analysis. At about the same time, approximately 15 enemy 122mm rockets struck an artillery complex in the 11th Marines Northern Sector Defense Command which included a detachment from the 1st Armored Amphibian Company, the 155mm Gun and 8-inch Gun Batteries, as well as Batteries H, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines and M, 4th Battalion, 11th Marines. Since you were there, Colonel, you can verify that there were no fewer than 26 rocket attacks on the Da Nang. In I Corps, the Allies learned from a defector that the enemy planned an attack against Qung Ngi City. 1969. Joining up with the squad from the 1/7 Marines and some newly arrived ARVN troops, the tanks then relieved the CAP garrison. One of the major attacks was against CAP B-3 in the hamlet of Duong Lam (1) just below the Ty Loan River. 1969. Some of the VC in the hamlet fled south, but encountered a platoon from Company E, 2/7 Marines coming up to reinforce the Allied forces in the Nam O area. 366th AMS, Rocket attack BX, Gunfighter Pilots. 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. Company L, 3/5 Marines set up blocking positions on the east bank of the Yen. Of the prisoners, the South Vietnamese identified six as military, 109 as workers, and the remaining 80 as VC cadre. "[1]:144, By evening on the 29th, the 1st Marine Division at Da Nang was on 100-percent alert. 17. Both Marine companies encountered heavy small-arms fire and RPGs as they approached their objectives. The battle for Da Nang was largely over. The communications bunker bore the brunt of the attack where the sappers destroyed both the bunker and the equipment inside and put the division tactical net off the air until 04:00. The Marines killed two and wounded the third. The combined force then swept the general area where they found two PAVN bodies and took three prisoners. At the briefing, the division G-2 or intelligence officer, told the assembled officers that "they are finally going to come out and fight. At Duy Xuyn, however, the PAVN/VC overran the town, forcing the district chief to flee and take refuge with the Koreans. Rummage reported about 50 PAVN dead with another 100 "probable." He was killed in action on January 21, 1968, during the Battle of Khe Sanh in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. Bringing up two artillery platoons , the ARVN gunners lowered their pieces and fired pointblank at the VC. No rockets fell on the main airbase but Marble Mountain sustained some damage. in foreground gives perspective. artillery and air, the ARVN successfully contained the PAVN/VC units in the Nam and Lin Chiu regions. They later found four PAVN dead. He seems to think there was only one rocket attack at Da Nang in 1972. March 2, 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder begins as over 100 American fighter-bombers attack targets in North Vietnam. The battalion's Company B, however, in an operation with a CAP in two hamlets on the Tiensha Peninsula or Da Nang East, surprised a VC force in two hamlets north of Marble Mountain. Mar 3, 2021. About the same time, from their firing positions on the western fringes of the Da Nang TAOR, PAVN rocketeers launched a fusillade of 122mm rockets aimed at the Air Base. The attack began about 1 A.M. and the United States command said the missiles were Sovietbuilt 122mm rockets, each weighing about 100 pounds. As various outposts reported their sightings to the Division FSCC, the artillerymen then shifted these fires to actual sites. # Not in AF records, submitted by members, # Not in AF records, submitted by members, Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1960-1973. Simultaneously, the division ordered the helilift of a company from the 3/5 Marines to reinforce the ARVN and the CAP Marines. Still photo images extracted from the vintage footage are also available for immediate download. The artillery fired another salvo, which caused a large secondary explosion. An American advisor within the MACV compound reported at 11:45 that the VC were digging in the engineer compound. Additional intelligence tended to confirm the enemy was about to initiate something big. 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. Freedom Hill 327 can be seen beneath the left flare, with convoy lights winding up the perimeter road. Menu. A summary of these attacks can be found on the Web site of the 366th. [1]:1489, In the Da Nang area of operations, outside of attacks by fire on the Marine base and outlying positions and the two ground assaults on Marine command and communications positions, the PAVN/VC infantry units largely concentrated on the South Vietnamese units. [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. He ordered the 3rd Amphibian Tractor Battalion to form a blocking position on the southeastern bank of the Vien Dien River. [1]:153, The Marines now counterattacked supported by artillery and Marine gunships and fixed-wing air. By 11:00, Marine helicopters evacuated the most seriously wounded and brought in the rest of Company G into blocking positions on the western bank of the Yn. 366th AMS, Mystery SP, Bob Hope. [1]:163 At the meeting Westmoreland ordered Americal Division commander General Samuel W. Koster to reinforce Danang. Another PAVN soldier, who infiltrated from North Vietnam after receiving a year's training as a radioman in Hanoi, was thrust into one of the attacking battalions south of Da Nang so hastily that he never learned the name of his unit let alone those of his officers. Approximately at 02:00, about four of the 122mm rockets fell in or near the compound, one landing near the 1st Cavalry Division helipad temporarily located there, damaging four of the helicopters, but resulting in no Marine or Army casualties. 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. Those infiltrations prepared the way for NVA ground attacks in the surrounding areas. 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. with rocket and mortar attacks at the Da Nang and Marhle Mountain Airfields on 30 January, and hit the Marble Mountain facility once again on 31 January, They hit the new Quang Tri airstrip with Doth rockets and mortars on 24, 27, and 29 January. 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. 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. The only Marine casualties were two men who failed to vacate their "hootches" in time. Click here to view those.. Update: 12 December 2020. The PAVN/VC attacked a Marine bunker and ran through the Communications Support Company area throwing grenades and Satchel charges in the living quarters. PAVN/VC gunners, however, continued to be active and shot down a Marine CH-46 attempting to insert a reconnaissance team into a landing zone in the hill mass in the western sector of Da Nang below the Ty Loan River. [1]:163, The official PAVN history records the attack as follows:[3]. Naval Support Activity Danang operated extensive logistics facilities on the Tiensha (Tin Sa) peninsula east of the city. 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. The Air Force watch officer on duty protested, "that's too close, you'll never get a clearance for it." The area around Nng, especially military installations, was subject to rocket attacks since that February. Nine USAF personnel were killed during the barrage and 128 others were wounded, 40 of them requiring hospitalization. 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. Surprised by the initial assault, the engineers fell back, giving up half the camp to the attackers. Robertson later praised the Security and Communications platoons of the 1st Marine Division Headquarters Battalion for their efforts in the defense. In addition to the VC R-20th Battalion, south of Da Nang, the VC 1st and PAVN 3rd Regiments both part of the 2nd Division started to deploy toward G Ni Island. 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. 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 According to the U.S. PAVN/VC gunners then replied with a mortar barrage, which resulted in two Marine dead and two wounded. Entering the town from the southwest, the VC fired about 70 RPGs at the local forces, but never penetrated the defender's perimeter. Immediately after the artillery shelling, an AC47 Spooky arrived on station and worked over the same area with its Gatling guns. 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. Battery A, 1st Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion armed with MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missiles, in the mountainous Hi Vn Pass sector north of Da Nang, reported about 01:40 coming under 82mm mortar fire. Pictures of Danang 10. Elements of the PAVN 368B Rocket Artillery Regiment were in firing positions to the west and northwest of the 7th Marines. Mortar and rocket attacks followed by ground assaults were made all along the perimeter of the base. 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. According to a Marine report, "it was evident that the enemy was prepared to masquerade as Vietnamese civilians in the process of infiltrating the TAOR and that he was attempting to infiltrate his forces in small units. 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. Shortly after 18:00, an air observer reported seeing 25-30 enemy troops in trenchlines, bunkers and fighting holes. 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. 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. 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. The VC had learned that artillery and/or air strikes would be called in on the launch sites. [1]:143, While the PAVN/VC concentrated their forces for the large offensive, many of these units suffered from too many rapid replacements and in some cases from poor morale. [1]:156, The Da Nang Northern Sector Defense Command dispatched a provisional company to assist the CAP Marines as well as the security detachment. Despite the thinness of the Marine lines and the ability of the PAVN/VC to infiltrate, they never capitalized on these advantages. Covered revetments to protect F-4s from rocket attacks -1969 [ Bob Kaatman photo ] American down as Marines arrive on scene just outside perimeter of DaNang AFB. One battalion was to deploy immediately, with the other to deploy the next day. During the day's fighting, the Marines killed 107 PAVN and took two prisoners for losses of 11 killed and 53 wounded. 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. According to Marine sources, the heavy action on this small island resulted in 102 VC killed, 88 prisoners of war, 13 VC suspects and 70 laborers. During the day, the division had positioned 11 reconnaissance Stingray patrols along likely enemy avenues of approach. They were ordered to the area to bolster defenses around the air base at Da Nang against possible VietCong attacks. Rummage soon determined that the total number of PAVN approximated 500 or more men, moving in two columns. 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. Flares light up the Da Nang area to make it easier to spot infiltrating guerrillas. According to a South Vietnamese account, the ARVN Rangers killed 150 of the enemy and captured another 18 in the battle for Nam O and in other fighting below the pass through 31 January. In the pursuit, which amounted to a rout, the VC lost nearly 100 dead. At 02:30 on the 30th at in Bn, elements of the R-20th and V-25th struck the subsector headquarters defended by the 15th Popular Forces Platoon and the 708 Regional Forces Company. This platoon under First Lieutenant John E. Manning departed the airbase about 04:15 and arrived in the blocking positions about 05:15. The VC R-20 and V-25th Battalions had struck again at Hi An, engaging both the Korean Marine Brigade and the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the ARVN 51st Regiment. 15 January 1968 U-10D Courier 66-14334 unit unknown, USAF, base unknown A mortar attack on the airfield at Luang Prabang in Laos destroyed a U-10D Courier. Throughout the day, however, Marine units throughout the TAOR reported incidents. "[1]:159, The heaviest action occurred in the 3/5 Marines and 4th Battalion, 51st ARVN sectors along Highway 1. General Walt's staff received word on 27 October that a VC main force battalion was moving out of its base in "Happy Valley," 10 miles southwest of Da Nang, and heading towards the base. [1]:149, About 5,000 meters to the east, in Hi An, however, PAVN/VC forces gained somewhat the upper hand. * The first attack was made by both mortars and sappers. On 14 February 1965 the Marine 1st LAAM Battalion established its anti-aircraft operations center colocated with the USAF CRP. If we went a week without a few rockets coming we knew something was in the works. Rockey, the 3/5 Marines commander, commented on the "increasing frequency and ferocity" of enemy contacts. The armored force pushed through the hamlet and encountered only occasional small-arms fire. They counted 34 PAVN dead. In the initial fighting for Ha Vang, the South Vietnamese and Americans accounted for 25 VC dead. a-~_ -~ ijsafss 0 w 86 i jun !17 history of 6994th security squadron The MPs shot one of the swimmers, took the other man prisoner and drove off the boats with a fusillade of bullets. Newsreel story showing the aftermath of the shelling of an . [1]:159, On the night of 5/6 February, the PAVN/VC forces began the second phase of their Da Nang offensive. In the attack, the PAVN/VC fired 122mm rockets at Marine artillery positions at An Hoa, Hill 55 and Hill 10. This demonstration may have been planned to coincide with an attack on the city which never developed. We don't know why, but we know they are!" Its two runways accommodated a take-off or landing every 60 seconds. At about 03:00 two PAVN battalions struck the ARVN compound on Route 1 above the Thanh Quit River. [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. 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. Just 19 when he arrived, the horrors he witnessed would forever shape him. He remembered that because of the number of casualties his battalion sustained, "it was necessary to employ administrative personnel on patrols" with "clerks, cooks, and drivers" on line. In the 7th Marines sector, the Marines described the same type of activity as well as increased enemy infiltration. 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. 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. In the assault, the PAVN/VC killed four Marines and wounded another seven before withdrawing. [1]:154, The ROKMC sent three companies to close the southern link and then moved forward into the attack. Noting the new web gear and weapons with the PAVN bodies left on the battlefield, Marine intelligence officers believed the PAVN unit to be from the 31st Regiment. 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. . It also served to block one of the principal avenues of approach to Da Nang from the south. The National Police arrested 25 of the crowd and quickly dispersed the would-be demonstrators. In the 3/7 Marines area of operations, about 2,000 meters west of Hill 55 on the other side of a bend in the Yen River, a squad from Company L at 11:45 ran into what eventually turned out to be a fairly large-sized PAVN unit. [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. WASHINGTON The White House warned that the U.S. may consider a military response to the rocket attack that hit an air base in western Iraq where American and coalition troops are . 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. Captured 122mm Tripod Launcher. Because of an air observer on station, the Marine gunners checked their fire. 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. The helicopter burned upon crashing, but the crew and most of the patrol were able to get out. They also mortared and rocketed MAG-13 at Chu Lai on 31 January 1968. Attacks on DaNang Air Base "Rocket City" Information in this table is extracted from, Appendix I, "Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1960-1973" by Roger P. Fox. Their weapons included AK-47s and B-40 RPGs. Doc, as his friends called him, was one of 58,200 Americans that died during the Vietnam War. The two PAVN prisoners identified themselves as members of the H-2 Engineering Company, part of the 2nd Sapper Battalion. . The following day, the same sources indicated that both the VC 1st and the PAVN 3rd Regiments had also withdrawn to the Go Noi. The NVA launched hundreds of rocket attacks on DaNang Airbase trying to hit the bomb dump. *** The first time that rockets were used in RVN by the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army. Local villagers told the Marines that at least one VC had been killed in the brief skirmish. Calling artillery upon the PAVN, the Marines then swept through the area and recovered about 17 60mm mortar rounds. 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. In Vietnam this rocket comprised one of the primary means of inflicting standoff attacks against airfields and other . by Edward H. Phillips 2/1/2017. 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