16. One battalion was to deploy immediately, with the other to deploy the next day. [1]:1445, About 02:30, the PAVN/VC struck the perimeters of the Da Nang base itself. Da Nang Vietnam January 30, 1968 - Rocket attack on the Da Nang Air Base. March 2, 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder begins as over 100 American fighter-bombers attack targets in North Vietnam. VMO2, where I would spend the next thirteen months, was just south of DaNang. Further to the east Company G, 2/3 Marines, at the battalion's command post about 500 meters north of in Bn town, remained as the division mobile reserve mounted in LVTP-5s and supported by tanks. The Koreans kept one company at the MACV compound for security and prepared for a sweep to clear out the city in the morning. # Not in AF records, submitted by members, # Not in AF records, submitted by members, Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1960-1973. VC gunners from Ha Vang, nevertheless, maintained an intermittent mortar bombardment upon the I Corps tactical operations center. At Da Nang, III MAF knew that the PAVN/VC were on the move. 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. Colonel Ross R. Miner's 7th Marine Regiment with all three of its battalions had the responsibility for the northern, western and southwestern sectors. The PAVN/VC rocket troops fired in two bursts, one at 03:42, followed by a second barrage three hours later. 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. In the engagement, the Marines lost 5 killed and 12 wounded. Next Photo. 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 them their mission was to mine and interdict allied traffic in the Hi Vn Pass area. U.S. air policemen take cover and leave their jeep as they come under sniper fire near Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam on January 30, 1968, after it was hit by a rocket barrage. Da Nang air base attacked in Vietnam by 40mm rockets 7 miles away, 47 killed many from local village (partial newsreel) Addeddate 2005-04-08 19:44:43 Color b&w Identifier 1967-03-03_Airbase_Shelled . 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. [1]:163, From almost every account, the PAVN/VC attack in the Da Nang TAOR was very inept. Flares light up the Da Nang area to make it easier to spot infiltrating guerrillas. 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. Although the PAVN troops fled, the Marines found five unexpended 122mm rockets on the site. A conglomeration of internal security forces threw back the VC force from the east that tried to use similar tactics to get inside the compound from that direction. Four ARVN M113 armored personnel carriers reinforced by a reconnaissance squad maneuvered to contain the attackers. Rummage reported about 50 PAVN dead with another 100 "probable." 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. A high number of casualties were Vietnamese civilians living in a village just east of DaNang Air Base. The Marine company called in mortar and artillery fire. 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 Marines assaulted the island and the fighting continued throughout the night and into the next morning. Throughout the day, however, Marine units throughout the TAOR reported incidents. The Marines and PF troops killed 22 VC and took another 23 prisoner. [1]:147, Major General Raymond Murray, the III MAF deputy commander, remembered that he heard a "hell of a lot of racket" and "woke up [to] the airfield at Da Nang being rocketed." 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. The VC had learned that artillery and/or air strikes would be called in on the launch sites. After their breaching of the outer defenses, the VC squad fired B-40 rockets at the headquarters building, but then fought a delaying action, waiting for reinforcements which never came. Both Marine companies encountered heavy small-arms fire and RPGs as they approached their objectives. 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. 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. The only other Marine reserves available to the division were the provisional companies of the Northern and Southern Defense Commands. Fires started from secondary blasts by bombs and fuel. The Air Force watch officer on duty protested, "that's too close, you'll never get a clearance for it." Open to all Vietnam Veterans that served at DA NANG Air Base of ROCKET CITY from 1971-1972. At in Bn, the 51st Regiment reinforced by the ROKMC contained the attack. A reluctance to cause undue damage to the historic town and avoid civilian casualties was suggested as a reason for the slow ROKMC advance. I was assigned to the 1st Marine Division and sent to Marble Mountain Airfield to Join Marine Air Group 16 and VMO2. 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. At first light, a Marine reaction force found enemy blood trails. Mortar and rocket attacks followed by ground assaults were made all along the perimeter of the base. The only Marine casualties were two men who failed to vacate their "hootches" in time. 29/30 January 1968 In the Hi Vn Pass area in the north, PAVN troops attempted to cut Highway 1. Marine commanders and staff officers could only speculate that the enemy was probably infiltrating north in small groups to "predetermined rallying points" for a further assault either on the city or on the Air Base. 1969. Communist attack of the war on an American stockade or brig. soldier and wounding two. Nine USAF personnel were killed during the barrage and 128 others were wounded, 40 of them requiring hospitalization. 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. 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. One of the rockets damaged one of the missile launchers and wounded three of the Marines. 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. [1]:149, About 5,000 meters to the east, in Hi An, however, PAVN/VC forces gained somewhat the upper hand. 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." Headquarters Marines quickly manned their defenses and called in artillery illumination and a fire mission. The RPGs missed the apertures in the tower and fell to the ground. By dark the Korean had captured the hospital and were in position to relieve the engineer compound. The Da Nang airbase was a major Ranch Hand facility during the American War in Vietnam. The helicopter burned upon crashing, but the crew and most of the patrol were able to get out. The fighting within the compound continued until daylight. Again the artillery responded with "excellent effect on target." "The soldiers and cadre of the "South Vietnam Liberation Army" were to move forward in the attack: We don't know why, but we know they are!" In both these sectors support troops doubled as infantry, manning fixed defensive positions and conducting patrols. The rockets destroyed five aircraft, nine items of ground equipment, two vehicles, and one warehouse outright. 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 Allies claimed 343 PAVN/VC killed and 195 prisoners. He and Randall agreed that they would deploy one of the battalion's two reserve provisional Quick Reaction platoons composed of headquarters personnel. The following day, the same sources indicated that both the VC 1st and the PAVN 3rd Regiments had also withdrawn to the Go Noi. They were ordered to the area to bolster defenses around the air base at Da Nang against possible VietCong attacks. "[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. According to U.S. advisors and to South Vietnamese sources, the fight for Hi An resulted in Allied casualties of 58 killed, 103 wounded in action, 21 missing in action and 14 weapons lost. The skirmishing south of the headquarters near Ha Vang, however, continued. Lieutenant Colonel William K . Its two runways accommodated a take-off or landing every 60 seconds. . * The first attack was made by both mortars and sappers. Would like to get in touch w/anyone attached to Security. [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. [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. The VC attacked the compound from two directions, from the south and the east. Battery F, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines alone shot off some 1,200 rounds. 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. Army forces in the Da Nang area including the troops from Task Force Miracle suffered 18 dead and 59 wounded. "We carried bullet clips in our pockets, but no weapons, because the rifle boxes were nailed shut in their shipping crates. Missiles launched from nearby mountains have caused eight deaths, many injuries and. 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. At 07:35, VC gunners fired two RPGs at the compound tower and a VC infantry platoon opened up upon the CAP unit. 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. Firing from well-concealed and dug-in firing positions, the PAVN machine gunners and infantry took a heavy toll of the Marines. [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. 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. The Marines and PF troops fired at armed members of the crowd who appeared to be directing the march. South Vietnamese and Korean casualties probably equalled or slightly exceeded the U.S. losses. Even in the face of the artillery, the PAVN continued their advance upon the Marine positions. The 3/5 Marines were landed and immediately came under heavy automatic and small arms fire from the island. The air base at Da Nang was, therefore, a particularly enticing target. Reinforced by another squad, the Company G Marines killed three and captured two. Milantoni relayed the request to the air support center. On the ground a patrol from Company A, 1/7 Marines, operating below the battalion's command post on Hill 10, saw about 10 PAVN soldiers just south of the Ty Loan River preparing positions. Local villagers told the Marines that at least one VC had been killed in the brief skirmish. The Marines evacuated the survivor to the Naval Support Activity hospital where he died of his wounds. Heavy explosions and fires on the base. 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. [1]:1534, On the night of the 30th, elements of a battalion of the PAVN 4th Regiment attacked an ARVN outpost at the foot of the Hi Vn Pass. 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. [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. During the day, the division had positioned 11 reconnaissance Stingray patrols along likely enemy avenues of approach. 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. [1]:157, In other sectors of the Da Nang TAOR, the PAVN/VC also maintained the pressure on the Allied forces. 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. 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. They later found three enemy bodies at the site wearing black pajamas under their green utilities. Archives. Twenty rockets fell on Hill 10, manned by Battery G , 3/11 Marines which resulted in 23 casualties, including two dead. 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. With one of his companies on the Tiensha Peninsula and the other three protecting the Air Base perimeter, Hill argued that he could not spare three platoons. The remaining rocket attacks were ineffective. 366th Security Police K-9. Apparently the forces were a mixed group from several different units interspersed together. 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. There were still ominous signs and actions that the enemy push on Da Nang was not over. 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. Some viewers may find some scenes or audio in this archival material to be unsettling or distressing. The Marine squad lost one killed. In the town itself, 10 civilians caught in the crossfire, sustained wounds, but no civilians died as a result of the battle. During the next few days, Task Force Miracle conducted sweeps in its sector and encountered relatively little resistance . Vietcong rocket attack on the U.S. Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam HD Stock Footage CriticalPast 308K subscribers Subscribe 56K views 8 years ago CriticalPast is an archive of historic footage.. The South Vietnamese quickly rushed the newly arrived ARVN 5th Ranger Battalion into the area. From the recovery of Lam's notebook and a detailed sketch map of Hill 10, the location of the 1/7 Marines' command post, the R-20 commander was obviously on an exploration mission to discover any vulnerability in the Marine battalion's defences. The Marine companies then pulled back and called in artillery and air. "[1]:142, On the evening of 28 January, just west of Hiu c, a Marine squad from Company C, 1/7 Marines ambushed a three-man VC reconnaissance patrol. The Front announced that the 1968 Tt greeting of "Chairman Ho [Chi Minh] is actually a combat order for our entire Army and population. + Casualty figures reflect all casualties, i.e., USAF, other military and civilians. Among the casualties were two Marines killed, including Lieutenant Manning and six wounded from the 1st MP Battalion. 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. 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. "[1]:147[2], Shortly afterwards, Marine fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter gunships blasted the VC in Ha Vang. Doc, as his friends called him, was one of 58,200 Americans that died during the Vietnam War. . These rockets had a range of several miles and were deadly. AP Photo U.S. Marines landing in Da Nang, March 8, 1965. Material and equipment losses, however, were much more extensive. 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. In the northeast, near the Force Logistic Command sector, villagers from Nam (160654N 1080744E / 16.115N 108.129E / 16.115; 108.129) just south of the strategic Nam Bridge, told PF troops, members of the CAP Q-4 platoon, that the VC planned to attack the CAP compound. Two other squad patrols from Company C in the vicinity quickly joined the first squad. Lieutenant Colonel William J . 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]:1478, The Marine response to the bombardments was rapid, the 11th Marines artillery units "initiated counter-rocket fires" at suspected avenues of approach. 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. Two LVTH-6s from the Marine 1st Armored Amphibian Company attached to the 11th Marines responded to a call from the U .S. Shortly after midnight on July 15, 1967, Da Nang Air Base in Quang Nam Province, RVN, came under a heavy rocket attack. 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. The Marines lost 12 killed and 6 wounded. Finally, according to Marine intelligence officers, another "very reliable source" flatly stated "that the time of attack throughout MR (Military Region) 5 would be" at 01:30 and no later than 02:00 on 30 January. The Truong Son and the Mekong River are moving. [1]:149, The fighting did not subside with the coming of daylight. Landing in large bursts, about 50 to 75 artillery rounds fell on the lead column. Note: Dick previously sent us some Stars and Stripes clippings mentioning rocket attacks and other "newsworthy items" of the day. About two-and-a-half hours later, the VC units "ceased fire and withdrew." Although the Koreans and the ARVN surrounded most of the city, the VC still were able to keep their southern flank open. 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. 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. The battle for Da Nang was largely over. [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. Lost him to a rocket attack. DaNang Air Base was known as "rocket city" for the number of attacks that occurred there between 1965 and 1973. The PAVN fought a delaying action as they began to withdraw. Robertson wanted to "canalize enemy movements in order to develop lucrative targets which could be exploited." Company G repulsed a number of probes throughout the night until the PAVN broke contact at dawn. Manning defensive positions, the Marine communicators and engineers repelled the attacking force, killing four VC. 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. Da Nang Under Heavy Rocketing. in foreground gives perspective. At 07:30, the ROKMC reported about 200 to 300 enemy troops still in Hi An. The PAVN then attacked forcing the Marine platoons to fall back to more defendable positions. The main body advanced in column maintaining about three to four feet space between each man. [1]:160, The fighting continued during the night and into the next day. 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. The United States Air Force took control of the base in the late 1960s. Pictures of Danang 11. 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. The combined force then swept the general area where they found two PAVN bodies and took three prisoners. This fighting would continue in a desultory fashion throughout the night. 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 . 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. With part of the force establishing blocking positions north of the hamlet, the rest of the provisional company and Rangers moved through Nam O. Pictures of Danang 10. The Flightline, Funny Money, Rocket shrapnel. NMCB-7 sends a Disaster. In one contact about 16:45, Company M, 3/5 Marines met a force of 100 PAVN/VC troops. The MPs shot one of the swimmers, took the other man prisoner and drove off the boats with a fusillade of bullets. Milantoni. 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. 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. One rocket struck this barracks, but the man in this room survived by . One of the nicest persons died there on the day he was turning his outside plant tool kit. One of the major attacks was against CAP B-3 in the hamlet of Duong Lam (1) just below the Ty Loan River. 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. 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. "[1]:1545, By this time, the Tet Offensive was in full bloom, not only at Da Nang, but throughout South Vietnam. He arrived with 19 other soldiers, eight of whom were embalmers. Cam Ranh Bay AB: US Army 6th Convalescent Hospital damaged by Rocket Attack! From their night positions, Company G observers saw large numbers of PAVN approaching them from the north. The company arrived at its dispositions at 01:00 the following morning . 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. 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. This demonstration may have been planned to coincide with an attack on the city which never developed. 366th AMS, Rocket attack BX, Gunfighter Pilots. 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