June 8, 1969. Supposed to go to Vung Tau tomorrow, Wednesday, September 8, 1971 Long Thanh North, Vung Tau ], Remember the fine restroom facilities? **** TET 1968 MAFC = Main air force compound at Da Nang Night Shift Avionics (Letter Home) DaNang Air Base was known as "rocket city" for the number of attacks that occurred there between 1965 and 1973. 366th AMS, Mystery SP, Bob Hope. Found problems in xmode connectors on Cont. Washed clothes at officers quarters (Letter Home) Mailed film to Wards, Wednesday, March 24, 1971 Da Nang Caught some rays on the bunker, OFF, Monday, September 6, 1971 Long Thanh North Saw "Fools" at MAFC, Tuesday, August 24, 1971 Da Nang Took off morning, avionics afternoon As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. President Nixon denied the next day that there were U.S. troops on the ground in Cambodia, so these photos were never released. 2 missions 027, up 3 pm, 6 hr. On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 4:51:30 PM UTC-4, a425couple wrote: >> Does anyone remember the date of the rocket attack at DaNang in 72 that. Brought back two banks Lots of work on 061, Thursday, October 21, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) On detail building hangers out of cement tinker toys This fisheye photo was taken at the end of the runway at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand as we filmed a B-52 returning from a mission landing right over our heads. Seacord = radio relay operator Reparied mike cord on 420 (Letter Home) Burm detail cutting grass, Friday, July 9, 1971 Long Thanh North Burm detail, may try to get permanent tower guard, Tuesday, September 28, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) (Letter Home) (Letter Home) 1 mission, 1 hr., Satellite 073 (Letter Home) Saw "The Best House in London" at RPI, Monday, February 22, 1971 Da Nang Rigged 027,038,061 for radio relay to Da Nang SAIGON, South Vietnam, Monday, July 5 (UPI)A mor tar barrage by enemy gunners struck a barracks filled with sleeping American soldiers at an air base in Danang at mid night and sent flames . 1 mission DCS, 038, 2 hrs. Photo #1 ( Nng AB): Due take off 10 am, Saturday, September 11, 1971 Da Nang As you can see we had it pretty rough. 1 mission, 4 hrs. 30 min. It should be noted that not all the action was in the air. Rained at 1 pm (Letter Home) Worked till 3 am Sunday on Satellite 038 and 000 Slept instead I recently heard from USAF veteran Pete Fontanilla who was the crew chief for this aircraft (tail number 346) while serving in Vietnam at that time. (nothing), Monday, March 1, 1971 Long Thanh North Saw 'A new leaf' at MAFC (Letter Home) Tay Ninh (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Back to Da Nang (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Took apart CO's air conditioner For what it's worth here it is 'as is,' maybe worth little to anyone but Saw 'Makenzie Break' at RPI, Wednesday, September 15, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Departed Pleiku, returned to Long Thanh, Tuesday, October 26, 1971 Long Thanh North OFF, Sunday, October 31, 1971 Long Thanh North Sirens blare, and This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Long Binh = airfield and military base (Letter Home) Got 2 packages today (nothing). (Letter Home) Got HYl-3's and Ky's but didn't get mail (Letter Home) short-timers Vietcong rocket attack on the U.S. Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam Clipping found in Del Rio News Herald in Del Rio, Texas on Jul 5, 1971. (Letter Home) Burm detail in morning Pictures of Danang 8. Hooked front bank as middle band with 3rd as spare, Monday, May 17, 1971 Long Thanh North Duff and Kelm went to Da Nang this morning, Tuesday, April 20, 1971 Long Thanh North 1 mission - 4 hrs. (Letter Home) Found out I'm on flight orders today Hot at 5 AM, mission terminated at 11:30 am just before I was due to fly I was getting a 30 day drop and would be leaving Vietnam around Christmas Day, Stopped Cam Ran, Nha Trang, Quin Nhon, Marble Mountain, Hue/Phu Bai, Monday, November 29, 1971 Long Thanh North I was using a Graflex medium format camera for this mission and I'm wearing "g-suit" chaps that would automatically inflate when pulling out of a steep dive to prevent blacking out. (Letter Home) Attempted repair Worked morning, off afternoon, worked night. I experienced rocket attacks, an ammunition dump explosion, total boredom, drug busts, police raids, China Beach, and the birth of my daughter, Rebecca. A summary of these attacks can be found on the Web site of the 366th Tactical. (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Saw "Airport" at main compound, Thursday, March 18, 1971 Da Nang China Beach for a while but too windy, Thursday, May 6, 1971 Da Nang 3 G.I. identified the aircraft and were So wing maintainers and aircrews modified the mounting of an external 20-millimeter Gatling gun pod on the F-4Cs used for ground attack for use in air-to-air combat, and in less than a month, starting on May 14, 1967, the wings pilots had scored four MiG kills. Pleiku = airfield China Beach, Saturday, May 1, 1971 Da Nang Army grunts load into a C-7 Caribou transport at Tan Son Nhut Air Base for an airlift to fighting in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Checked radar in a couple of ships, Sunday, June 27, 1971 Long Thanh North, Long Binh An F4-E turns to land ahead of an approaching storm at DaNang Air Base in northern Vietnam. Started night shift today, Friday, September 10, 1971 Long Thanh North The SP wearing the hat and smoking a pipe worked in Training, I think. Standby [ Rod Carbone photo ], Taken of me in a f-4 Danang 1971 [ Rod Carbone photo ], Took this one out on the flightline Dec. 1971 [ Rod Carbone photo ], Gunfighter PilotsDec.1971 (Letter Home) Flew to Da Nang Worked on Satellite 679 and061 this morning, Monday, May 10, 1971 Long Thanh North Paulson went back to get payed Sunday, April 18, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Photo #2A & 2B ( Nng AB): 1971 Long Thanh North The 362 TEWS Latrine. 30 min. (Letter Home) Need batteries An F4 high above the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam. Took 5 banks to Vung Tau, Saturday, July 3, 1971 Long Than North considered combat assault) Hot, Pool closed, game of Monopoly this evening Avionics - radar in 038 Saw movie "the Adventurer" at Gunfighter All rights ran our missions from there. (Letter Home) OFF, Wednesday, December 15, 1971 Long Thanh North Photo #6A, 6b, and 6c ( Nng AB): At the firing range. (Letter Whole day at China Beach, Sunday, February 21, 1971 Da Nang Didn't fly, standby, Sunday, May 16, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Installed FM controller head, transponder and Headcount breakfast and dinner Guard Duty, Saturday, June 19, 1971 Long Thanh North Slept all day, Sunday, June 20, 1971 Nha Trang no mail and no pay yet, Friday, April 2, 1971 Da Nang Arrived Da Nang 2 pm De-rigged 038, Monday, June 14, 1971 Long Thanh North me, but I share it here as an insight into the mind of a 20 year old draftee A formation of F-100s of the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing fly over the ancient Cham temple south of their base at Phan Rang. De-rigged 013, rigged 027 See the article in its original context from. Photo #9 ( Nng AB): (Letter Home) No mail Bevins = pilot Quit 7 pm, Friday, October 22, 1971 Long Thanh North Saturday, April 10, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Got pictures back from Wards and mailed them home OFF, Monday, July 26, 1971 Vung Tau Kinzel = pilot live band at the Rice Paddy in at 6 PM, Saturday, February 6, 1971 Long Thanh North, Tuy Hoa Bowling at Freedom Hill 15 min. Saw ' Danger Diabolic" at RPI, Thursday, August 26, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) (Letter Home) Red Alert 11:30 pm Anyone can read what you share. reserved. Mission kicked off this evening (Letter Home) We gained a new appreciation for these airmen who spent months working under fire at Khe Sanh. off morning Guard duty, Sunday, July 4, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) This was a 5-second time exposure with a remote flash from the side so as to not affect the pilot's night vision. Home) (Letter Standby RPI= Rice Paddy Inn, club on base in Da Nang Back on standby at noon, Thursday, Februaryb 11, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) home. Saw 'Some Kind of a nut' at MAFC, Wednesday, August 25, 1971 Da Nang I also made life long friends. Bill was the primary photographer for the 7th Air Force News in 1970-71. just before takeoff, OFF Night Shift Avionics, Saturday, November 13, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) 009 up 1:30 am SP4 = rank of Specialist 4th Class (Letter Home) (Letter Home) TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. (Letter Home) Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. 30 min 073, Thursday, August 19, 1971 Da Nang (Letter Home) July 1967, Vietnam War, U.S. Air Force, . Da Nang Air Base : Sapper & Rocket Attacks During The Vietnam War Send letter to gran (Letter Home) Saw 'the Undefeated' at M AFC, Wednesday, May 5, 1971 Da Nang 600th Photo Squadron photographer Bill Diebold took this image in 1971 of a young Vietnamese girl intrigued by what I was photographing in a temple in Saigon. DaNang Gunfighters - 366th Fighter Association (Letter Home) 1 mission 4 hrs. De-rigged 061 Avionics afternoon 1971 Sylvester = radio relay operator Night Shift Avionics, Friday, November 12, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) night shift cancelled, Tuesday, September 21, 1971 Long Thanh North (Letter Home) Base orientation brochure, Perimeter, Tent City. Found good set of banks by using by using three rear banks plus parts, Wednesday, July 7, 1971 Long Thanh North Sgt Timothy Krouse (see photo #9) from PA worked with me most or all of the time. 2 rocket attacks early this morning High-resolution original photos (without watermarks) are available from the National Archives in Washington, DC. Flew CE on 000 (Letter Home) (Letter Home) To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Headcount, Saturday, December 4, 1971 Long Thanh North on Satellite 061 Got two sets of nomex liferized today Standby (Letter Home) comings and goings of my fellow GI's all received equal and matter of fact OFF, Monday, August 9, 1971 Long Thanh North still didn't have power supply, Sunday, July 18, 1971 Vung Tau (Letter Home) Went to Long Binh, got a ride on an APC (Letter Home) Standby at 7:30 pm. Movie at RPI, 'I love my wife', Tuesday, May 4, 1971 Da Nang 1 mission, DCS, 013 1 hr. Wasted time Avionics Guard midnight Saturday to 6 am on Sunday morning
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