I've read a few reports of air US air activities; Navy, Air Force, Air America regarding the use of F14 fighters as air support during Operation Frequent Wind. I've also read that US air forces engaged in destroying NVA surface to air batteries around Saigon due to radar tracking (locking on?)...
While posted to Cam Lo, I stood daytime watch occasionally and had a good view of the goings on around that place mostly related to the open air market. Besides the Vietnamese who lived in Cam Lo, a few km away was a community of H'mong. I'm by no means an ethnologist, but they were clearly a...
After first tour in Viet Nam, we were fresh in at a west coast base waiting for leave orders. One of our number heard food was good at a nearby Naval base, so six of us loaded up in an old 'battleship Buick' for a decent dinner. No trouble getting in. "Sure! You guys load up!" NCO at the door...
Hey fellas, lets get the old thread I started back in the MP.net days going again. Hopefully some NEW old pics have surfaces.
I think I named it "MACV-SOG, SEALS, LRRP, GREEN BERETS, RANGERS AND SASR IN VIETNAM" or something close to that.
USMC Force Recon
The NOH-6A (Night Observation Helicopter) was also called the Hughes 500P ("P" for Penetrator). It was a special version build for the CIA and was optimized for nighttime observations. Therefore it got all kind of IR/Nighttime observation devices (like for example a FLIR). Besides that it also...
The Mayaguez incident took place between Kampuchea and the United States from May 12–15, 1975, less than a month after the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital Phnom Penh ousting the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic. It was the last official battle of the Vietnam War. The names of the Americans...
I think I'll use the opportunity to resurrect the old series of threads about helicopter aviation of the Vietnam war era that I had started over at MP.net years ago.
So, without further ado "Guns A Go-Go":
The ACH-47 was a try to evaluate if CH-47 "Chinook" helicopters could be used as...
In 1968, Erik Durschmied shot the CBS Special Report Hill 943 in which he followed three soldiers in Alpha Company as they tried to capture Hill 943 in a bloody battle..."A uninhabited, nameless hill. Only called "Hill 943" because of its height. Soldiers were given the orders to take it. Then...
Help me verify name of this plane in this picture?
On plane have texts: 218L; 222L; 224L; REAR SIGNAL HORN; DO NOT RAINT; 21LVER PLATE WAGE; AIRPLANES…
Thank you very much!
I saw a pic here of German soldiers on a train that triggered a memory from back in the day. First tour in northern I Corps, trains still ran. Narrow gauge French engines with a shrill whistle that could he heard for a long distance. No air brakes - there were actual brakemen who ran along tops...
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