Dong Ha Combat Base And Airfield During The Vietnam War
This entire 55-minute video provides an overview of Dong Ha base during the vietnam war. To purchase the entire video go to https://militaryvideo.com/. The video documents activities of Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy personnel at the base. Shows numerous buildings (Air Force compound, tent city, airfield) around the base. Shows Marines guarding the perimeter, Air Force police patrolling the area and some construction at the base. Also includes scenes shot at nearby Dong Ha Village and Navy personnel off-loading supplies from a LCM at the cargo ramp on the Cua Viet River. Includes excellent aerial views of the entire base, as well as lots of activities at the airfield, off-loading munitions and equipment in support of Operation Hastings. Most of the footage is covered by a music soundtrack with captions. Also includes narrated newsreel footage of activities in and around the base.
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Landed there from Danang May 67. Med evacked there when wounded at the battle of Dai Do only a mile or two from the base May 68. Feels like 1000 years ago.
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I visited Dong Ha in October 68 with a 5 man special services rock band. We played outdoors, turned the amps toward the dmz and played loud as we could. It rained. Soldiers did the Crocodile in the mud.
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Was there 66-67-68 with 1st/44th Artillery. These pictures are of the air base, nothing like the combat base up on the hill.
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Was here in 1966 Thurston Nix. WIA Sept 14th 1966
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My father was there in 1968 and worked a mobil machine shop. anyone remember cpl. Jim Huber from New York?
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I was there in 2009, terrible holiday. Still get flashbacks now.
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I was there in 66-67 with MASS 2, Marine Air Support Squadron 2. Santiago A.
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I was there in 69-70 attached to F-26 Target Acquisition Battery. By then the airport had been shut down due to number of mortar attacks. Nearest active airport was Quang Tri
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My father was in the USMC, stationed in Dong Ha. I never asked him much about Vietnam for obvious reasons, but I remember him telling me a few war stories; one of them taking place there. From what I can remember, he was temporary duty assigned All weather attack squadron 242, Marine aircraft group eleven, first Marine medium helicopter squadron 361. September 3rd, 1967 is where he earned his medals. Bronze Star for saving 3 guys from a burning bunker. 1 of them was unconscious, the others paralyzed from fear. I remember him telling me, as he was carrying the guy(s) to safety, he was jumping over mortar shells and arty which were scattered about the ground but didnt go off. Recieved a Purple heart for taking schrapnel to the chest (collapsed lung and other injuries from it), Navy achievement medal as well.
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I landed there in Oct. 68, with 5th ID (m). Left in Dec 69, spent time at Camp Red Devil at Quang Tri, LZ Sharon, and back to Dong Ha when 3rd Marine Div. left. Not many fond memories as you all know.
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I was there in 1967 with the advanced party of USNMCB 11 at Camp Barnes. Worked on various projects through out the Base, also erected watch towers around the perimeter. After a few months went with the detachment to build the the new Special Forces camp at Lang Vei. SEABEES "CAN DO!"
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Dong Ha, my city :)
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A friend of mine David Barry (not the journalist) spent some time there Seabees he worked the shop repairing batteries starters generators. He does not speak kindly of the place.
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I was there in 1967, leaving in July. Was attached to the Comm Center from 7th Com Bn.
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I have this zippo lighter
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I was there in 1968 for a short stay what a dirt hole.Dust every where espicially when the aircraft came and went.
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I was a field wire and telephone opr with 11th Engineering Batallion from jan 67 thru jan 68 just a few days before tet offensive.
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I was up there in 71 for Lam Son 719. Got short and went back to Chu Lai to be lazy until my flight to Saigon and back to the world. Sure was more developed by then. Not a LOT, mind you. We lived at a hospital area across from the flight line.
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I was there from about 10Dec66 to 15Dec67 with K Co, 3rd Bn, 4th Marines. I was the company chief clerk and mostly remained in the rear (Dong Ha) for all but two months while "in country". Camp JJ Carroll was named after our company commander (KIA) about two months prior to my arrival. Within an hour of my arrival from Danang on a C-17, the battalion CO addressed the new arrivals and warned us not to drink the "rotgut" whiskey that the locals were selling. No buildings except for a row of three blown up single story native structures. When I left, there must have been 50 Butler buildings. Some of those had been hit with rockets. A crashed Phantom lay in the mud at the south end of the strip. Pilot couldn't make it back to Da Nang. I was there for the ammo dump explosion. Nothing landed near my area although I was only about 500 yds from it on the east side of the strip. One night in April, shortly after the battalion had been returned from Okinawa for two weeks of retraining and resupply, two rockets landed about 50 feet on opposite sides of my pup tent. It was riddled with holes but I didn't get a scratch as I was sleeping on the ground. Lima company suffered two KIAs from a direct hit. Seems like we were getting rockets most every day for the last four months. They would come in groups of two from the southwest. Puff the magic dragon would rain down fire upon the rocket teams at night along with the dual 40s. Didn't help. Never fired my M-14 although a round passed in and out of my 20 man company tent and lodged in the tent pole next to us. Seabees gave me enough lumber to build a water tower and a shower. They kept the six 55 gal water barrels full in exchange for USMC boots. Took R&R in Hawaii.
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