More taxi's in Angeles City.
More taxi's in Angeles City.
I stayed in a Hotel in Angeles City which is right outside Clark AFB.
While I was at Clark Airbase after my Jungle survival training a U.S. Navy helicopter crashed just outside the base. I was watching an outdoor movie on base at the time it happened and saw all of the fire and rescue equipment go out. The next morning the local newspapers reported that five U.S. Servicemen were killed in the crash. I didn't know it was Danny Petersen until I got back to Danang and got a letter from my mother.
I am back at MMAF late in July with Mike Vandegraft and the other T.O.'s.
“Care packages ” from home were always appreciated.
US outpost somewhere in the I Corp.
Sampans somewhere along the coast.
July and August 1968, I sent home a flare parachute used for illumination at nite.
In my grey flight suit.
Captured V.C. bunker.
Bell UH-1A Huey the company at MMAF were the “Black Cats”.
August 1968
Abandoned airbase at Cam Duc we could see the NVA shooting at us from the top of the hill with two or three 50 calliber machine guns sometimes.
Same airstrip at Cam Duc near the Laotian border.
Aerial recon photo's like this were what we would take on daylight missions.
DaNang City from the South1968.
Danang city from the South 2006
Danang from the North 2006
August 1968, Marble Mountain Air Facility was being assaulted with rockets and mortars at nite.
Photo Recon we continue to watch and listen for any sign of PFC Sparks. He is still listed as Missing In Action.
These planes sometimes landed at MMAF with civilains and top ranking officers.
Jet abandoned at MMAF.
Helicopter mission from MMAF.
Late August 1968.
Cobra Gunship being hauled in for repair by Sikorsky Skycrane.
Bell AH-1J Cobra.
Gun mounts from off a Jet.
Over the 245th filghtline.
Cobra with rockets.
245th history Maj. Lee takes command of 245th from Maj. Carlisle in August.
Rainbow over the 245th.
The helicopter company beside the 245th. at MMAF.
Cessna L=19 Bird Dog
Aircraft landing at MMAF.
From the Toledo Blade Sept. 1968.
DeHavilland U-6A Beaver
DeHavilland U-1A Otter
The Marines move in across the runway with their new O.V. 10 “Bronco's” late in 1968.
O.V.10 in flight.
O.V. 10 with baggage compartment open rocket pods underneath.
O.V. 10
News from home August 1968.
O.V. 10 in flight.
North American OV-10 Bronco parked at Marble Mountin A.F.
O.V 10 off the coast of DaNang from a Mohawk.
A mortar landed beside this O.V. 10 during a nitetime attack on MMAF.
O.V. 10 Bronco hit by nitetime mortar attack on MMAF.
The Marines pulled the tail off of the Bronco before the hauled it away.
The same O.V. 10.
Sept. 1968 Toledo Blade.
I saw this O.V.10 get shot down near Chu Lai during a recon mission. We stayed on site until the attack jets showed up and the medivac helicopter (near right of photo) landed to assist the pilots. (neither pilot survived the crash).
The O.V. 10's flew hundreds of assault missions from MMAF while we were there.
The O.V. 10 was a lot faster aircraft than the O.V. 1 Mohawk.
P.O.W. camp between MMAF and Marble Mountain.
Sampans along the coast taken from a Mohawk with the camera at a 30 degree position.
Village down the coast near Chu Lai.
Railroad bridge near Danang.
RVN troops.
Dave at the 245th It's September and Dave got notice from the Red Cross that his son David E. Aldstadt Jr. was born.
Sept.1968.
A walled compound near Danang.
Camp Evans near Hue.
Camp Evans.
We were hit by “Typhoon Bess” on Sept. 5th 6th and 7th 1968. Three days of driving rain.
Late Sept. 1968.
Marine helicopter trashed at MMAF.
Same helicopter.
More wreckage near the 245th flightline.
One of the same kind of helicopters at MMAF.
Off the end of the MMAF runway.
“For Sale” ?
“One owner” ?
Landing at MMAF.
Picking up a Huey for repair from behind our barracks.
Huey.
I waited an hour to get a picture of this dragonfly with a helicopter. (Not much else to do some days.)
September was a busy month around DaNang a lot of enemy activity.
From the back of a Huey on my only three day “in country” R&R to Vung Tau.
From inside the same Huey on the ride South to Vung Tau.
Huey
The river between Danang and Marble Mountain.
I got to go to Saigon for one nite while I was there. This picture is from somewhere along the way.
Dave and I spent some time at Danang Main Airport taking pictures of aircraft taking off and landing. The next group of pictures are from there.
Over the Danang Main Airbase runway.
C 130 Hercules.
Douglas F3D Skyknight
F3D Skynight “Flying Nightmare”
Grumman A 6 Intruder
F-106
F-106
A-1 Skyraider
Danang main airport as it looks in 2006
F-4 Phantom
C- 130 Herculese
F-4 Phantom
F-4 Phantom
F-4 Phantom
F-106
C-123
C-123 Provider From a unit in West Virginia ( designated by the WV on the tail)