Although authorizing the ceasefire, he warned all American commanders to be unusually alert because of "enemy increased capabilities ." Soon reports came in that the base was under attack and a Marine helicopter flew the general from his quarters to III MAF headquarters. Nearly 11 million liters of Agent Orange were handled on the base. Posted: 02/01/2018. 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 The fighting within the compound continued until daylight. [Peter Halferty photo]. The PAVN fought a delaying action as they began to withdraw. Military Photo: Rocket Attack On The Eve Of The Tet Offensive. Note: Dick previously sent us some Stars and Stripes clippings mentioning rocket attacks and other "newsworthy items" of the day. Among the casualties were two Marines killed, including Lieutenant Manning and six wounded from the 1st MP Battalion. The main body advanced in column maintaining about three to four feet space between each man. The Sequence number refers to the sequence number assigned to all attacks on ten primary US Air Force operating bases in Vietnam. In the pursuit, which amounted to a rout, the VC lost nearly 100 dead. During the next few days, Task Force Miracle conducted sweeps in its sector and encountered relatively little resistance . After a brief firefight, the VC troops withdrew taking any casualties with them. Those infiltrations prepared the way for NVA ground attacks in the surrounding areas. 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." [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. 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. A second platoon from Company G arrived at the site and attempted to maneuver to the PAVN flank. In the 7th Marines sector, the Marines described the same type of activity as well as increased enemy infiltration. Twenty rockets fell on Hill 10, manned by Battery G , 3/11 Marines which resulted in 23 casualties, including two dead. 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. CriticalPast offers immediate downloads of full-resolution HD and SD masters and full-resolution time-coded screeners, 24 hours a day, to serve the needs of broadcast news, TV, film, and publishing professionals worldwide. The bulk of the attack force remained in Ha Vang Village bogged down in a firefight with local Popular Force (PF) and Regional Force (RF) troops reinforced by a USMC Combined Action Platoon (CAP), E-3. [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. Of the 13-man Recon team, codename Dublin City, one was dead, nine were injured and three escaped unscathed. The area around Nng, especially military installations, was subject to rocket attacks since that February. Airbase Shelled: Soviet Rockets Used in Attack (film #111 on Universal Newsreels). Under pressure from the South Vietnamese relief forces and the Marine MP platoon, the VC retreated with the allies in pursuit. by Edward H. Phillips 2/1/2017. [1]:160, The fighting continued during the night and into the next day. [Peter Halferty photo]. [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. On my second combat hop on the 14th I flew below 500 feet for 30 minutes 5 to 10 miles south of Da Nang searching for rocket launching sites. . The Truong Son and the Mekong River are moving. 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. On 29 January, Marine intelligence officers received a reliable report that the PAVN 2nd Division also had established its command post in western G Ni. At 07:35, VC gunners fired two RPGs at the compound tower and a VC infantry platoon opened up upon the CAP unit. 366th AMS, Rocket attack BX, Gunfighter Pilots. Suspected excavations camouflaged with tree branches were seen on a peninsula 6 miles southwest of Da Nang. On 14 February 1965 the Marine 1st LAAM Battalion established its anti-aircraft operations center colocated with the USAF CRP. The VC had learned that artillery and/or air strikes would be called in on the launch sites. [1]:146, Lieutenant Colonel Twyman R. Hill's 1st MP Battalion operated directly under III MAF and was responsible for the "close-in defense" of the Da Nang Air Base, the two bridges between Tiensha Peninsula, Marble Mountain Air Facility and the Naval Hospital on the Tiensha (Tin Sa) Peninsula. In a message to III MAF, Robertson observed "Never have so few done so much to so many. Although the Koreans and the ARVN surrounded most of the city, the VC still were able to keep their southern flank open. Located between the Cu and Thanh Qut Rivers and on either side of Highway 1, the two battalions provided the last line of defense before the so-called "Vital Area." A summary of these attacks can be found on the Web site of the 366th. 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. Manning defensive positions, the Marine communicators and engineers repelled the attacking force, killing four VC. The . Marble Mountain Air Facility supported USMC helicopter operations throughout southern I Corps. Americal Division artillery operating in the Qu Sn sector took the PAVN/VC forces under fire, but did not shell Duy Xuyn town because of the civilian population there. 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[1]:163, The official PAVN history records the attack as follows:[3]. [1]:154, The ROKMC sent three companies to close the southern link and then moved forward into the attack. [1]:1423, From other sources, the Marine command learned of other ominous measures taken by the PAVN/VC forces in the Da Nang sector. The Marine squad was about to establish a night ambush site when a PAVN force of about 100 fired upon them. PAVN/VC fired rockets at both the Da Nang Air Base and Marble Mountain Air Facility. From May 1968 to July 1970, the Army sergeant came of age in the U.S. Army mortuary at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon. 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. Hill received a telephone call at 03:45 on the 30th from Colonel Thomas Randall, the III MAF G-3, who asked him "to send three platoons to blocking positions south of I Corps headquarters." In the resulting engagement, Company E killed about 13 VC from the Q-55th Local Force Company, which normally operated in the area. 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. 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. Elements of the PAVN 368B Rocket Artillery Regiment were in firing positions to the west and northwest of the 7th Marines. Base orientation brochure, Perimeter, Tent City. The PAVN soldiers wore flak jackets and helmets and carried a machine gun, and a small rocket detachment with six 122mm rockets. Rockey, the 3/5 Marines commander, commented on the "increasing frequency and ferocity" of enemy contacts. They later found four PAVN dead. [1]:159, While from 15 February, the PAVN/VC ground assaults on Marine positions appeared to diminish , Marine spotters in the tower on Hill 55 reported the constant movement of small groups of enemy troops in the western portion of the ROKMC area of operations. At first, the general and his steward confused the rockets with the traditional fireworks shot off in honor of Tt. The Flightline, Funny Money, Rocket shrapnel. Just 19 when he arrived, the horrors he witnessed would forever shape him. [1]:157, There were two serious incidents in the 7th Marines sector. 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. The Communists carried out 26 rocket attacks on the Da Nang air base during 1972. 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. In the morning, the Marines discovered blood trails and three PAVN bodies in the vicinity of the explosions. "The call for assault to achieve independence and liberty has sounded; AP Photo U.S. Marines landing in Da Nang, March 8, 1965. All clips are licensed royalty-free, worldwide, in perpetuity. At 18:35, Recon team Ice Bound, positioned in the mountains about 8 miles (13km) northwest of Da Nang observed an enemy rocket unit prepare a firing position for their missiles. 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. At 17:00 on 29 January, Westmoreland cancelled the truce in the entire I Corps sector. Darkness prevented any accurate bomb assessment. . Before his death, however, the Vietnamese identified himself as Major Nguyen Van Lam, the commanding officer of the R-20th c Lp Battalion. [1]:160, By this time, Robertson was worried about the ability to contain the PAVN/VC offensive south of Da Nang. [1]:149, About 5,000 meters to the east, in Hi An, however, PAVN/VC forces gained somewhat the upper hand. The MPs shot one of the swimmers, took the other man prisoner and drove off the boats with a fusillade of bullets. Two other squad patrols from Company C in the vicinity quickly joined the first squad. Reinforced by the remainder of Company L and two platoons from Company M together with two tanks and an LVTP-5, the Marines engaged the PAVN. This fighting would continue in a desultory fashion throughout the night. One sapper was captured. Darkness prevented Sailfish from observing the number of casualties that the artillery and air inflicted upon the enemy. Bringing up two artillery platoons , the ARVN gunners lowered their pieces and fired pointblank at the VC. [1]:159, On the night of 5/6 February, the PAVN/VC forces began the second phase of their Da Nang offensive. In both these sectors support troops doubled as infantry, manning fixed defensive positions and conducting patrols. CriticalPast makes this media available for researchers and documentarians, and does not endorse or condone any behavior or message, implied or explicit, that is seen or heard in this video.Link to order this clip:http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675029937_Vietcong-rocket-attack_Danang-Airbase_Marine-operation-headquarters_heavy-explosionsHistoric Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD.Vietcong rocket attack on the U.S. Da Nang Airbase in VietnamShows a night time Vietcong rocket attack, just after midnight, July 15, 1967, on the United States Air Force flight line and barracks areas at the Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam. In the morning when searching the battle area, the Marines would find "ample evidence of enemy casualties, but only two enemy bodies." Nng AB: 366th TFW: Rocket Attack! English: A damaged U.S. Marine Corps Grumman A-6A Intruderof Marine All-Weather Attack Squadron 242 (VMA(AW)-242) "Bats" at Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam, 30 January 1968. Although agent reports and other intelligence indicated continued assaults north of the Cau Do River against Ha Vang and Da Nang City, most of these came to naught. One rocket struck this barracks, but the man in this room survived by . While successfully beating back the PAVN attack, the CAP leader called for help. The armored force pushed through the hamlet and encountered only occasional small-arms fire. Pictures of Danang 10. 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. Immediately after the artillery shelling, an AC47 Spooky arrived on station and worked over the same area with its Gatling guns. As the Marine platoon patrolled along the banks of the Yn, a heavy machine gun suddenly opened up. Accompanied by tanks and LVTP-5s, Company F maneuvered to the north of the ARVN base. Stationed with 1882n Comm Gp., 1969-1970, worked in the Base Comm Center. Even at Marble Mountain the damage was relatively contained. Other disturbing intelligence tended to confirm this analysis. 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. Finally the PAVN broke contact at 20:00 and disappeared. The U.S Marine Corps Fighter Squadron VMF (AW) 232, also based here, lost some of its F-8E Crusader aircraft in this attack. Still PAVN/VC gunners just before 01:00 launched 12 122mm rockets aimed at the Da Nang base and blew up two ammunition dumps, one for napalm and the other for flares. [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. During the day's fighting, the Marines killed 107 PAVN and took two prisoners for losses of 11 killed and 53 wounded. Marine and Army reconnaissance flights using infrared technology and XM-3 "People Sniffer" airborne personnel detectors (APD) mounted on UH-1 helicopters indicated strong enemy concentrations in the hills near Hiu c west of the 7th Marines. The attack started at 12:25 AM and an estimated 50 rounds of 122mm rockets were fired at the installation. According to Davis, a few hours later, Robertson called a division briefing for all battalion commanders. Once more the PAVN/VC failed to cut the main lines of communication into Da Nang. Robertson remembered that "the ceasefire was to be in effect and the regimental commanders reported intense fire from the enemy and requested authority to continue artillery fire, if necessary" Robertson granted the request and then "about 18:40 we got the word from III MAF that the ceasefire had been called off.[1]:142, For some time, the American forces had been aware that the PAVN/VC was about to launch some type of major offensive. 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. Large numbers of flares shot high into the air and burst into . They later found three enemy bodies at the site wearing black pajamas under their green utilities. At 16:00, one of the Stingray units, using the codename Saddle Bag, situated in the mountains just south of a bend in the Thu Bn River below An Ha Combat Base, about 20 miles (32km) southwest of the Da Nang, reported observing about 75 enemy soldiers wearing helmets and some carrying mortars. One of the nicest persons died there on the day he was turning his outside plant tool kit. It was the worst attack on Danang since July 5,. All attacks from 02/27/67 forward were by rockets. 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. CAP Q-4 there continued to hold out. For the most part, the PAVN/VC limited their attacks on the Marines to mortar bombardments and harassing small arms fire. Menu. 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. At 09:15, a squad from Company G, 2/7 Marines providing road security for a Marine engineer mine-sweeping team on Route 1 just below the pass, encountered a small PAVN sapper detachment. This would be followed by a rocket barrage and an assault by the main force units on Allied military units and installations. "We carried bullet clips in our pockets, but no weapons, because the rifle boxes were nailed shut in their shipping crates. Considering the amount of ordnance that the enemy expended, casualties were relatively small. "[1]:163 The Marines called in artillery and mortar missions . The battalion was alerted and airlifted from Twentynine Palms, California, to Cherry Point, North Carolina, with its . In fact, elements of both regiments had reached jump-off points just south of the Cau Do River. "The soldiers and cadre of the "South Vietnam Liberation Army" were to move forward in the attack: Captured 122mm Tripod Launcher. About 50 minutes later, another recon team, Air Hose, about 2,000 meters to the northeast of Saddle Bag, saw more than 50 enemy troops moving eastward. heros. 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). [1]:1612, In the ensuing battle of Lo Giang the Marine and Army forces successfully repulsed the PAVN 2nd Division attack. Again, the Marines killed the VC and once more foiled an apparent enemy demolition effort. Use big bombs." Given also the enemy rocket threat, he still needed to maintain extensive patrols in the so-called Rocket Belt. CriticalPast is your source for imagery of worldwide events, people, and B-roll spanning the 20th century. [1]:153, The most serious ground attack against a Marine unit occurred in the western portion of the Da Nang TAOR just below the Ty Loan and Cu Rivers near the eastern bank of the Yn River. Milantoni. Supported by U .S . With the departure of the 5th Marine Regiment to support operations further north in I Corps, there was only one Marine infantry regimental headquarters in the extensive Da Nang Tactical area of responsibility (TAOR). These rockets had a range of several miles and were deadly. As the defector from the 401st later revealed, his unit lacked "weapons, experienced soldiers, and transportation manpower." 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. Da Nang was a major base area for United States and South Vietnamese military forces supporting operations throughout I Corps. The remaining rocket attacks were ineffective. A third C-123 squadron was stationed at Da Nang Air Base in 1963 and a fourth at Tan Son Nhut in October 1964 following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August. 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. Pictures of Danang 9. He later confided to Davis, "Bill, your phone call was right on the money! Of the prisoners, the South Vietnamese identified six as military, 109 as workers, and the remaining 80 as VC cadre. 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. bagram air base distance to chinairidescent telecaster pickguard. Although most of the enemy activity was restricted to small-unit contacts, on the night of 2/3 February, PAVN/VC gunners again rocketed the Air Base. *** The first time that rockets were used in RVN by the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army. Vietnam Rocket City 1971-1972, Palm Bay, FL. Mortars and recoilless rifle rounds continued to land inside the headquarters compound from enemy firing positions in Ha Vang. Shortly after 18:00, an air observer reported seeing 25-30 enemy troops in trenchlines, bunkers and fighting holes. It didn't take long to get out of bed when the first rocket struck nearby. Despite limited attacks later in the month, these were largely, as a report stated, "an attempt to maintain the facade of an offensive. "[1]:147[2], Shortly afterwards, Marine fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter gunships blasted the VC in Ha Vang. Advisory Group at Da Nang, the PFs and RFs accounted for eight dead VC and captured one wounded VC. According to the Marine after-action report, 3/5 Marines and the attached two companies from the 2/3rd Marines accounted for more than 320 PAVN/VC dead in less than 36 hours. With part of the force establishing blocking positions north of the hamlet, the rest of the provisional company and Rangers moved through Nam O. Headquarters Marines quickly manned their defenses and called in artillery illumination and a fire mission. 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. Two days later, Marine intelligence officers learned that the PAVN 21st Regiment was in the Go Noi area. DaNang Air Base was known as "rocket city" for the number of attacks that occurred there between 1965 and 1973. [1]:163 a-~_ -~ ijsafss 0 w 86 i jun !17 history of 6994th security squadron Next Photo. From the details of the other recovered documents, the VC obviously were making an extensive reconnaissance of the Da Nang area giving descriptions of military structures, distances, weapons and other information that would be of value to an attacking force. While the Marine battalions successfully kept these initial assaults on the night of 5/6 February in check, Robertson was not sure how much longer they could. Cam Ranh Bay AB: US Army 6th Convalescent Hospital damaged by Rocket Attack! He personally believed the plans were impractical and deserted at the first chance he had. . 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. Robertson shared these concerns with General Robert E. Cushman Jr., the III MAF commander. According to intelligence reports, on 15 January, Group 44, the forward headquarters of the PAVN/VC Military Region 5, moved from the hills in western Qung Nam Province, to an advance position on G Ni Island. In Da Nang City itself, about 10:50 in the morning, approximately 500 people gathered at a Buddhist pagoda and attempted to hold a march. The United States Air Force took control of the base in the late 1960s. An American advisor within the MACV compound reported at 11:45 that the VC were digging in the engineer compound. Still photo images extracted from the vintage footage are also available for immediate download. 1969. It also served to block one of the principal avenues of approach to Da Nang from the south. Firing 290 105mm shells, the tractor artillery reportedly killed about 80 of the PAVN attackers caught in the open. West runway cratered, east runway open. 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