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- Some happening in the airwing at Danang
- When I first got to vietnam, you grunts will not appreciate this story probably, we had cold water showers, Then the seabees came through and asked if we needed anything and we said hot showers. They said no problem we have a hot water heater we'll loan you till you get your regular hot water tank. We said okay and they brought us this 5000 gallon tank mounted on a trailer with a gas powered heater which made the water hot. You came to the shower with your towel and one of …
Read More - 3 more airwing stories
- All three of these happened between Nov. 1966 and June 1968 I was having enough fun to extend once. We had been at Danang for awhile when we got word that charley had a sniper at the end of the airstrip taking shots at our planes as they come and go with a rifle. We couldn't tell if he hit ours or not but the security M.P.s left him alone for a long time because none our units had much problem with him. We figured he had a very …
Read More - procrastination of an airwing unit at Danang 1st MAW 1967
- Well this story starts in early 1967. We are all working 12 hour shifts and we have metal corrigated 6/12 pitched roofs over wood and screen sided huts about 8' apart. We also have open sand bag bunker in between for the mortar attacks that happened every so often. We could tell when we were going to have an attack because the vietnamese barber was always gone the day of the night attack. They had been telling all of us to put roofs on our bunkers for awhile. Between …
Read More - A pilot looking for HYMMS
- I was in the Marine Corps only four years 1965 to 1969. Went from VMCJ 2, At Cherry Pt. N.C.to VMCJ 1, Danang So. Vietnam, to VMCJ 3 at El Toro, Cal. to Camp Pendleton Brig, Oceanside Cal. Jet Aircraft Metalsmith. except the last 6 months when they changed my MOS to a mortar man. While in Danang our squadron had four jet aircraft An F10, nicknamed willie the whale for its top speed when new of 300 mph,F8 Crusader top speed when new of 450 mph, A6 intruder,high wing …
Read More - 1st Marine Air Wing incident at in country r&r china beach
- My squadron was VMCJ 1 in Danang Vietnam but our particular group was from Cherry Pt. N. C. This happened right after the tet of 1966 or 1967. We hadn't been at the beach very long when the 1st Marine Division came through our area on the way to the ocean with full gear on. They had lost a lot of men going through the Aschua Valley trying to clean charley out of it . I mean we were there just as they finished the cleanup and went by us …
Read More - II MAW, VMAT203, A-4 & Harriers 1972-1975
- When some folks ask what branch of the service I was in, I reply, I was in the MILITARY branch. Some scratch their heads, but here in Mesquite, Tx most don't. American Legion Post 504
- W J WILSON
- FIRST MARINE BRIGADE KANEOHE BAY , IT WAS GOOD TO READ AND SEE SOME PHOTOS FROM LONG AGO. MY FIRST STOP THERE 39 YEARS AGO. I LOVED GOING TO THE BEACH AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY WITH BROTHERS IN LIFE AND DEATH, THE F4s SCREAMING OFF INTO THE BLUE, AMPHIPIOUS RECON JUMPING FROM SEAKNIGHTS INTO THE SEA BEYOND THE CORAL AND THE BREAKERS. IT IS GOOD TO REMEMBER THE FACES AND SMILES, OF THOSE I CHERISHED SO MUCH AND OWE MY LIFE TO.
- VMA332
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In response to Cpl. C.E. Walters 6441, I was in VMA332 first time around in 1968 when we flew the A-4’s. In July of ‘68 we started the transition to the A-6 and became VMA(AW)332. Please enjoy the photo of the last known squadron picture of VMA332 and the photo of the Avionics Shop. After attending A-6 schools either at Oceana, VA, or Whidbey Island,Wa, most of us ended up with VMA(AW)533 at Chu Lai in early ‘69, Then on to Iwakuni, Japan in late “69-‘70. We are having a …
Read More - Not the “K-bay” of old
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I can commiserate with SSG Mike England about his attempts to visit K-Bay last November. I was assigned to the Station Operations and Maintenance Squadron (SOMS) from 74-77 and finally made it back to Hawaii and K-Bay while on a business trip in 2008. I retired in '93 so I was able to show my ID and gain access to the Base. The Base has changed so much - new streets build, old street gone - that I literally got lost trying to find our old buildings, which by …
Read More - Number 6 on the flight line at Phu Bai
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I read the story in the Jan. 13 issue about the UH34D resupply of the Rock Pile in Oct. of 1966. The number on the tail looks like number 6. I was flight crew on the number 6 during Oct. of 1966 with HMM161 based at Hue Phu Bai. That might be me in the door of the plane sense there were only two us who flew with the number 6 and we were both on the plane. I can remember several times resupplying the Rock Pile. We could …
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