Because of the location of Hill 65, just above Route 4 about 4,000 meters west of the district town of i Lc and below Charlie Ridge (155610N 1080542E / 15.936N 108.095E / 15.936; 108.095), where the VC had heavy machine gun emplacements which precluded any helicopter lift, the Marine company had to make the move on foot. According to a Marine report, "it was evident that the enemy was prepared to masquerade as Vietnamese civilians in the process of infiltrating the TAOR and that he was attempting to infiltrate his forces in small units. (L to R) Attack of 13 April 1972. The only other Marine reserves available to the division were the provisional companies of the Northern and Southern Defense Commands. For the most part, the PAVN/VC limited their attacks on the Marines to mortar bombardments and harassing small arms fire. Darkness prevented any accurate bomb assessment. [1]:159, On the night of 5/6 February, the PAVN/VC forces began the second phase of their Da Nang offensive. This apparently broke the back of the VC resistance. The Allies claimed 343 PAVN/VC killed and 195 prisoners. VMO2, where I would spend the next thirteen months, was just south of DaNang. 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. The VC attacked the compound from two directions, from the south and the east. This information should also include any information involving plane crashes at the Da Nang base in early 1968. Of the prisoners, the South Vietnamese identified six as military, 109 as workers, and the remaining 80 as VC cadre. Bldg. 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. PAVN/VC gunners, however, continued to be active and shot down a Marine CH-46 attempting to insert a reconnaissance team into a landing zone in the hill mass in the western sector of Da Nang below the Ty Loan River. Fourteen aircraft, six pieces of ground support equipment , five buildings, and another two vehicles sustained damage of one sort or another. Flares light up the Da Nang area to make it easier to spot infiltrating guerrillas. Two other squad patrols from Company C in the vicinity quickly joined the first squad. [1]:159, On the ground in the 7th Marines sector, PAVN units hit several of the CAPs, especially in the 3rd and 1st Battalion areas. After calling in helicopter gunships, the ROKMC, at 13:20, reached the MACV compound and linked up with U.S. advisors there. One battalion was to deploy immediately, with the other to deploy the next day. The battalion was alerted and airlifted from Twentynine Palms, California, to Cherry Point, North Carolina, with its . At 07:35, VC gunners fired two RPGs at the compound tower and a VC infantry platoon opened up upon the CAP unit. According to Marine pilot reports, the PAVN/VC had approximately 250 men in the area equipped with automatic weapons, including at least one .51-caliber machine gun. bagram air base distance to chinairidescent telecaster pickguard. Lost him to a rocket attack. Those infiltrations prepared the way for NVA ground attacks in the surrounding areas. At least some members of his group also reportedly provided security for Richard Spencer's often violent campus appearances. [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." [1]:156, The Da Nang Northern Sector Defense Command dispatched a provisional company to assist the CAP Marines as well as the security detachment. SAIGON (UPI) - Communist troops blasted the city of Da Nang and nearby military installations with nearly 200 rockets or mortar rounds early today in their heaviest attack on the Northern coastal area in a year, spokesmen said. Entering the town from the southwest, the VC fired about 70 RPGs at the local forces, but never penetrated the defender's perimeter. A total of 49 mortar and rocket rounds were counted landing on the airfield during this attack. [1]:163, The official PAVN history records the attack as follows:[3]. Marble Mountain Air Facility supported USMC helicopter operations throughout southern I Corps. One sapper was captured. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Citation Nr: 1224394 Decision Date: 07/13/12 Archive Date: 07/18/12 DOCKET NO. The Victory will be with us. 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. Fires started from secondary blasts by bombs and fuel. March 2, 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder begins as over 100 American fighter-bombers attack targets in North Vietnam. At the briefing, the division G-2 or intelligence officer, told the assembled officers that "they are finally going to come out and fight. 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. Obtenez des photos d'actualit haute rsolution de qualit sur Getty Images Full Citation: Photograph 127-N-A190364; Rocket Attack on the Da Nang Air Base; 1/30/1968; General Photograph File of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1927 - 1981; Records of the U.S. Marine Corps, Record Group 127; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. All attacks from 02/27/67 forward were by rockets. [1]:1478, The Marine response to the bombardments was rapid, the 11th Marines artillery units "initiated counter-rocket fires" at suspected avenues of approach. [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. Nearly 11 million liters of Agent Orange were handled on the base. One of the rockets damaged one of the missile launchers and wounded three of the Marines. Rummage radioed back that the AC-47 caught about 50 PAVN crossing a stream and the recon Marines could observe rounds hitting all around them. + Casualty figures reflect all casualties, i.e., USAF, other military and civilians. In the resulting engagement, Company E killed about 13 VC from the Q-55th Local Force Company, which normally operated in the area. The main body advanced in column maintaining about three to four feet space between each man. # Not in AF records, submitted by members, # Not in AF records, submitted by members, Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1960-1973. The Marines assaulted the island and the fighting continued throughout the night and into the next morning. Still photo images extracted from the vintage footage are also available for immediate download. 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. [1]:1423, From other sources, the Marine command learned of other ominous measures taken by the PAVN/VC forces in the Da Nang sector. Again the artillery responded with "excellent effect on target." On 14 February 1965 the Marine 1st LAAM Battalion established its anti-aircraft operations center colocated with the USAF CRP. I was assigned to the 1st Marine Division and sent to Marble Mountain Airfield to Join Marine Air Group 16 and VMO2. A detachment of four LVTP-5s from the 3rd AmTrac Battalion quickly arrived, but the enemy had already departed. Approximately at 02:00, about four of the 122mm rockets fell in or near the compound, one landing near the 1st Cavalry Division helipad temporarily located there, damaging four of the helicopters, but resulting in no Marine or Army casualties. After calling in artillery which resulted in three secondary explosions, the reconnaissance Marines reported seven enemy killed. The attacks on Da Nang (29 January 11 February 1968), were a series of attacks in the Tet Offensive launched by the North Vietnamese Peoples Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong (VC) during the Vietnam War. In a 1st Marine Division analyses, the author commented that the PAVN 2nd Division's approach was "along a single axis of advance so that his eventual target was easily identifiable." 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. 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. He later confided to Davis, "Bill, your phone call was right on the money! 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. 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. PAVN/VC fired rockets at both the Da Nang Air Base and Marble Mountain Air Facility. Cam Ranh Bay AB: US Army 6th Convalescent Hospital damaged by Rocket Attack! 15 July 1967Unknown number of VC attacks Da Nang air base in Quang Nam Province with an estimated 50 rounds of suspected 122mm rockets. About 20 minutes later the missile battery sighted enemy rocket firing sites and two minutes later radioed that 12 rockets of undetermined size landed in and around its area. Allied intelligence officers identified members from the V-25th, R-20th, C-130th Battalions and the Q-15th and Q-16th Local Force Companies. Location: Da Nang Vietnam. Marine losses were 14 killed, Army losses were 18 killed, while PAVN/VC losses were in excess of 286. Two LVTH-6s from the Marine 1st Armored Amphibian Company attached to the 11th Marines responded to a call from the U .S. At about 03:00 two PAVN battalions struck the ARVN compound on Route 1 above the Thanh Quit River. Four died there. 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. According to Marine intelligence reports, on 9 February, the 2nd Division moved its headquarters back to the Go Noi from its more forward positions. Nng AB: 366th TFW: Rocket Attack! With covering fire provided by 81mm and 82mm mortars, about a reinforced company reached the I Corps headquarters compound actually located within the city of Da Nang just outside the northern perimeter of the Air Base. Da Nang air base in the mid- to late-60s was the busiest (and possibly the largest) airport in the world. They fired, killing one of the enemy underwater demolition team, while the other member surrendered to the Marines. NMCB-7 sends a Disaster. [1]:1467, About 05:45, the 1st Division learned that the VC squad in the I Corps headquarters compound had disengaged and took its casualties with it. As the Marine platoon patrolled along the banks of the Yn, a heavy machine gun suddenly opened up. PAVN battalions from the 2nd Division had eluded the Korean and ARVN defenses in the southern sector and had penetrated the defensive perimeter of the 2/3 Marines and 3/5 Marines just below the Air Base. Two of the mortar attacks hit the 1st Cavalry Division helipad near the Force Logistic Command area in the Red Beach Base Area destroying two helicopters and damaging eight others and killing one U.S . At 20:00 on the night of the 5th, a Marine platoon ambush from Company C, 1/7 Marines intercepted about 60 PAVN troops about 4,000 meters south of the Ty Loan River in the western sector of the area of operations moving northeast towards the river and the base with mortars and automatic weapons. [1]:1489, In the Da Nang area of operations, outside of attacks by fire on the Marine base and outlying positions and the two ground assaults on Marine command and communications positions, the PAVN/VC infantry units largely concentrated on the South Vietnamese units. Two attached U .S. Flight line VMO-2 after mortar / rocket attack "Tet Offensive" 1968. . [1]:1556, During the day and evening of the 31st, the PAVN/VC infantry units pressed the offensive on the ground. The armored force pushed through the hamlet and encountered only occasional small-arms fire. 17 apr 1966: arab 511, an a-1h (buno 135398), lt (jg) william l. tromp, va-115, went down following a night attack on coastal targets, near approximately 1818 . Lieutenant Colonel William K . At 09:20, PAVN/VC forces attacked the district towns of in Bn, just above the Ky Lam River and Duy Xuyn below the river. A high number of casualties were Vietnamese civilians living in a village just east of DaNang Air Base. The artillery fired another salvo, which caused a large secondary explosion. 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines was in the north, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines was in the center and 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines was in the south. 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. 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. . According to this former member of the VC 401st Regimental Security Guard, local VC cadre stated that "the war had lasted too long and the Front had to seek a good opportunity to stage a great offensive that would bring the war to an early end." 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. Some of the VC in the hamlet fled south, but encountered a platoon from Company E, 2/7 Marines coming up to reinforce the Allied forces in the Nam O area. Even in the face of the artillery, the PAVN continued their advance upon the Marine positions. I was in Danang less than a month when the Vietcong used rockets to attack the Danang Air Base for the first time in the war, on the morning of February 27. 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. The Marines lost one helicopter and sustained damage to 29 others. Calling artillery upon the PAVN, the Marines then swept through the area and recovered about 17 60mm mortar rounds. "We carried bullet clips in our pockets, but no weapons, because the rifle boxes were nailed shut in their shipping crates. Army personnel were wounded. After a brief firefight, the VC troops withdrew taking any casualties with them. 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. A second platoon from Company G arrived at the site and attempted to maneuver to the PAVN flank. [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. 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. [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 first time that rockets were used in the Republic of Vietnam by the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army. The combined force then swept the general area where they found two PAVN bodies and took three prisoners. "[1]:1578, The greatest danger to the TAOR at this juncture, however, was from the south in that area defended by the ROKMC and the ARVN 51st Regiment. More like this Camp Friendship Korat Cat Air Force Special Operations Vietnam War Photos May Bay North Vietnam Air Force Bases Vietnam Veterans The first U.S. air strikes also occur against the Ho Chi Minh trail. Other disturbing intelligence tended to confirm this analysis. Their weapons included AK-47s and B-40 RPGs. Lm arrived at the headquarters compound shortly after dawn. [1]:157, In other sectors of the Da Nang TAOR, the PAVN/VC also maintained the pressure on the Allied forces. Stationed with 1882n Comm Gp., 1969-1970, worked in the Base Comm Center. . Apparently the forces were a mixed group from several different units interspersed together. 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. "The call for assault to achieve independence and liberty has sounded; 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 . Built by the Colonial French government of Indochina in 1949, it became a training school for Vietnamese pilots. In the Da Nang Vital Area, the artillery regiment, the 11th Marine Regiment, continued to oversee the Northern Sector Defense Command and the 1st Tank Battalion, the Southern Sector Defense Command. The struggle for Hi An would continue into the following day. 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 aircraft may have been one of those used by Air America. The helicopter burned upon crashing, but the crew and most of the patrol were able to get out. * The first attack was made by both mortars and sappers. "[1]:163, Another possible explanation was that the Da Nang attack may have been a secondary assault, to cause as much damage as possible and divert Allied forces from the almost successful effort of the PAVN/VC forces to capture Hu. 1969. A summary of these attacks can be found on the Web site of the 366th. Another platoon from the Marine company also reinforced the engaged troops about an hour later. [ Bob Kaatman photo ] Scheduled to last eight weeks, Rolling Thunder will instead go on for three years. In the engagement, the Marines lost 5 killed and 12 wounded. At the meeting Westmoreland ordered Americal Division commander General Samuel W. Koster to reinforce Danang. Material and equipment losses, however, were much more extensive. artillery and air, the ARVN successfully contained the PAVN/VC units in the Nam and Lin Chiu regions. As various outposts reported their sightings to the Division FSCC, the artillerymen then shifted these fires to actual sites. 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. Again, the Marines killed the VC and once more foiled an apparent enemy demolition effort. Both battalions would be under the operational control of the 1st Marine Division. About 07:45 approximately two companies or a reinforced company from the PAVN 31st Regiment ambushed a Marine platoon from Company G, 2/3 Marines. Posted: 02/01/2018. Newsreel story showing the aftermath of the shelling of an . 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. It wrapped around the base and city. 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. By dark the Korean had captured the hospital and were in position to relieve the engineer compound. [1]:142, While activity in the Army's 23rd Infantry (Americal) Divisions areas of operations in Qung Ngi and Qung Tn Provinces was somewhat diminished, there was enough enemy in northern and central I Corps to cause concern for both the American and South Vietnamese commands. According to the prisoner accounts, they were from the PAVN 3rd Battalion, 31st Regiment and confirmed that "Da Nang itself was the ultimate objective. [1]:154, Throughout the Da Nang TAOR, the intensity of activity increased during the night. Under pressure from the South Vietnamese relief forces and the Marine MP platoon, the VC retreated with the allies in pursuit. 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