(L to R) Attack of 13 April 1972. Another PAVN soldier, who infiltrated from North Vietnam after receiving a year's training as a radioman in Hanoi, was thrust into one of the attacking battalions south of Da Nang so hastily that he never learned the name of his unit let alone those of his officers. The Marine company called in mortar and artillery fire. Glasgow, Steve: YN3: Mar 20, 1969 - Mar 20, 1970: US Navy Post Office @ China Beach: . In Da Nang City itself, about 10:50 in the morning, approximately 500 people gathered at a Buddhist pagoda and attempted to hold a march. "[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. Liked the Oriental rock bands came to the Club: 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. They later found three enemy bodies at the site wearing black pajamas under their green utilities. ** The first two attacks on DaNang were by mortars. Lieutenant Colonel William K . One of the major attacks was against CAP B-3 in the hamlet of Duong Lam (1) just below the Ty Loan River. [1]:1589, For the next few days, there was a relative lull in the Da Nang sector, at least as compared to the last two days of January. Two days later, Marine intelligence officers learned that the PAVN 21st Regiment was in the Go Noi area. In Vietnam this rocket comprised one of the primary means of inflicting standoff attacks against airfields and other . According to Marine intelligence sources, Rummage may well "have rendered a reinforced battalion combat ineffective, forcing the enemy to modify his plans at a critical time." Finally there were rumors that the other two regiments of the 2nd Division, the VC 1st and the PAVN 3rd, had infiltrated even further north. Newsreel story showing the aftermath of the shelling of an . The AC-47 then called in Marine fixed-wing attack aircraft which dropped Napalm with "outstanding coverage of target." "[1]:142, On the evening of 28 January, just west of Hiu c, a Marine squad from Company C, 1/7 Marines ambushed a three-man VC reconnaissance patrol. Still PAVN/VC gunners just before 01:00 launched 12 122mm rockets aimed at the Da Nang base and blew up two ammunition dumps, one for napalm and the other for flares. The Sequence number refers to the sequence number assigned to all attacks on ten primary US Air Force operating bases in Vietnam. 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. 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. [1]:1478, The Marine response to the bombardments was rapid, the 11th Marines artillery units "initiated counter-rocket fires" at suspected avenues of approach. With the departure of the 5th Marine Regiment to support operations further north in I Corps, there was only one Marine infantry regimental headquarters in the extensive Da Nang Tactical area of responsibility (TAOR). No rockets fell on the main airbase but Marble Mountain sustained some damage. Of the prisoners, the South Vietnamese identified six as military, 109 as workers, and the remaining 80 as VC cadre. 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On Jan. 30, a 15-man commando squad penetrated Da Nang Air Base and another squad blew up the "Sector Bravo Combat Operations Center," just 1,000 meters from I Corps headquarters. AP Photo U.S. Marines landing in Da Nang, March 8, 1965. One of the companies captured a German missionary hospital in the city and the other hit the rear base of the ARVN 51st Regiment, the Chi Lng Camp, garrisoned by the ARVN 102nd Engineer Battalion. Flares light up the Da Nang area to make it easier to spot infiltrating guerrillas. Other disturbing intelligence tended to confirm this analysis. On my second combat hop on the 14th I flew below 500 feet for 30 minutes 5 to 10 miles south of Da Nang searching for rocket launching sites. A summary of these attacks can be found on the Web site of the 366th. 366th AMS, Rocket attack BX, Gunfighter Pilots. About 01:00, a Marine platoon from Company G, 2/7 Marines, positioned near the Nam Bridge on Highway 1 crossing the Cu River north of Da Nang, saw another two enemy on a raft with a wooden box. *** The first time that rockets were used in the Republic of Vietnam by the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army. "[1]:1434, Before the PAVN/VC forces launched their attack, the commanders prepared to read to their troops a directive supposedly prepared two weeks earlier by the Presidium of the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front. 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. Firing 290 105mm shells, the tractor artillery reportedly killed about 80 of the PAVN attackers caught in the open. 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. March 2, 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder begins as over 100 American fighter-bombers attack targets in North Vietnam. "[1]:163 Two other platoons took up positions around nearby hills 244 and 200. Cleaning up and repairs at Gunfighter Village. [1]:1601, On the morning of 7 February, Westmoreland called for a special meeting of the senior U.S. commanders in I Corps. Company L, 3/5 Marines set up blocking positions on the east bank of the Yen. The Stand Off Rocket attack of July 15, 1967 was the deadliest attack of the war at Nng Air Base. Bldg. At 02:30 on the 30th at in Bn, elements of the R-20th and V-25th struck the subsector headquarters defended by the 15th Popular Forces Platoon and the 708 Regional Forces Company. 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. Twenty rockets fell on Hill 10, manned by Battery G , 3/11 Marines which resulted in 23 casualties, including two dead. The mortar attacks resulted in only five wounded and none killed among the Marine defenders. Went to Danang to help EOD with the munitions storage facility mishap just outside Danang Air Base. In the town itself, 10 civilians caught in the crossfire, sustained wounds, but no civilians died as a result of the battle. Army forces in the Da Nang area including the troops from Task Force Miracle suffered 18 dead and 59 wounded. From 18:00 to 24:00 on the 30th, the 1st Marine Division reported to III MAF over 30 incidents ranging from sightings of large enemy forces, to mortar attacks and a few infantry assaults. 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 . They fired, killing one of the enemy underwater demolition team, while the other member surrendered to the Marines. A contingent of South Vietnamese Nng mercenaries from the Special Forces Thng c Camp took over the defense of Hill 52 from Company M.[1]:158, Still the Marine command believed the new positions of Company M not only covered the approaches to i Lc, but provided the division with another reserve force. On 14 February 1965 the Marine 1st LAAM Battalion established its anti-aircraft operations center colocated with the USAF CRP. In addition to the VC R-20th Battalion, south of Da Nang, the VC 1st and PAVN 3rd Regiments both part of the 2nd Division started to deploy toward G Ni Island. at Bien Hoa Air Base, those in II Corps were consolidated at Tuy Hoa Air Base, and those in I Corps were consolidated at Da Nang Air Base [Carmichael 1972; Cecil 1986; Hull 2002; Young 2006]. The PAVN/VC rocket troops fired in two bursts, one at 03:42, followed by a second barrage three hours later. The Marine squad was about to establish a night ambush site when a PAVN force of about 100 fired upon them. Davis, the commanding officer of the 1/7 Marines, recalled that his unit began to take fewer casualties from surprise firing devices or boobytraps and began to suspect that enemy troops unfamiliar with the terrain might be attempting to move into his sector. About 03:30, two more Marine tanks from the district town of Hieu Duc arrived at the northern fringes of the hamlet. 1970, 1st Marines, AFVN, Armed Forces Vietnam Network, Assassination . After counting 500 men pass their position, Rummage called in the artillery. Communist attack of the war on an American stockade or brig. The attack force would consist of two groups, one to move by land and the other by water to knock out the bridge separating the city from Tiensha Peninsula and to capture the I Corps headquarters. [Peter Halferty photo]. Because of an air observer on station, the Marine gunners checked their fire. [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. At the briefing, the division G-2 or intelligence officer, told the assembled officers that "they are finally going to come out and fight. During the day, the division had positioned 11 reconnaissance Stingray patrols along likely enemy avenues of approach. At 17:00 on 29 January, Westmoreland cancelled the truce in the entire I Corps sector. Before his death, however, the Vietnamese identified himself as Major Nguyen Van Lam, the commanding officer of the R-20th c Lp Battalion. Pictures of Danang 11. Immediately after the artillery shelling, an AC47 Spooky arrived on station and worked over the same area with its Gatling guns. Guards beat off the . According to Marine intelligence reports, on 9 February, the 2nd Division moved its headquarters back to the Go Noi from its more forward positions. At in Bn, the 51st Regiment reinforced by the ROKMC contained the attack. The only Marine casualties were two men who failed to vacate their "hootches" in time. Two LVTH-6s from the Marine 1st Armored Amphibian Company attached to the 11th Marines responded to a call from the U .S. About 50 minutes later, another recon team, Air Hose, about 2,000 meters to the northeast of Saddle Bag, saw more than 50 enemy troops moving eastward. The Marines assaulted the island and the fighting continued throughout the night and into the next morning. There were still ominous signs and actions that the enemy push on Da Nang was not over. Attacks on DaNang Air Base "Rocket City" Information in this table is extracted from, Appendix I, "Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam, 1960-1973" by Roger P. Fox. The enemy had also planned to hit the main airfield at Da Nang. "[1]:1545, By this time, the Tet Offensive was in full bloom, not only at Da Nang, but throughout South Vietnam. Major General Donn J. Robertson, the 1st Marine Division commanding general, kept under his direct control the 3/5 Marines and the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines. Built by the Colonial French government of Indochina in 1949, it became a training school for Vietnamese pilots. Rummage reported about 50 PAVN dead with another 100 "probable." Da Nang air base in the mid- to late-60s was the busiest (and possibly the largest) airport in the world. I called all the regiments and battalions and the same was happening to them. Landing in large bursts, about 50 to 75 artillery rounds fell on the lead column. [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. The nickname for DaNang was "Rocket City" garnering that appellation from the frequent attacks on it by means of the "Katyusha" which is the name given the Soviet BM-21 122mm artillery rocket. The Marines failed to determine whether this mixed force had a specific mission or consisted of remnants from units that had participated in the earlier attack on the I Corps headquarters. The Marines lost 12 killed and 6 wounded. The Marine companies then pulled back and called in artillery and air. In one contact about 16:45, Company M, 3/5 Marines met a force of 100 PAVN/VC troops. NASM.2018.0025 Of the 13-man Recon team, codename Dublin City, one was dead, nine were injured and three escaped unscathed. Obtenez des photos d'actualit haute rsolution de qualit sur Getty Images The 1st MP Battalion completed three sweeps of the Air Base perimeter and the areas just southeast, southwest and just north of the airbase without incident. 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. The PAVN soldiers wore flak jackets and helmets and carried a machine gun, and a small rocket detachment with six 122mm rockets. In the meantime, the VC harassed with sniper fire both CAP Q-4 and the nearby Nam O bridge security detachment from 2/7 Marines. [1]:149, About 5,000 meters to the east, in Hi An, however, PAVN/VC forces gained somewhat the upper hand. In the northeast, near the Force Logistic Command sector, villagers from Nam (160654N 1080744E / 16.115N 108.129E / 16.115; 108.129) just south of the strategic Nam Bridge, told PF troops, members of the CAP Q-4 platoon, that the VC planned to attack the CAP compound. Although most of the enemy activity was restricted to small-unit contacts, on the night of 2/3 February, PAVN/VC gunners again rocketed the Air Base. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART "[1]:144, By evening on the 29th, the 1st Marine Division at Da Nang was on 100-percent alert. The fighting within the compound continued until daylight. DA NANG A.B. At 19:20, in the same general area, still another Stingray patrol, Sailfish, radioed that about 200 PAVN/VC troops, some carrying 40mm rocket launchers, passed its positions. During the next few days, Task Force Miracle conducted sweeps in its sector and encountered relatively little resistance . A high number of casualties were Vietnamese civilians living in a village just east of Da Nang Air Base. The 3/5 Marines reported "a definite increase of enemy harassment" and the movement of sizeable enemy units into the Go Noi Island area (.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}1551N 10812E / 15.85N 108.2E / 15.85; 108.2). [1]:156, The Da Nang Northern Sector Defense Command dispatched a provisional company to assist the CAP Marines as well as the security detachment. Milantoni relayed the request to the air support center. Apparently the division was slow in moving into the Da Nang area and was not in position to support the local forces in the earlier phase of the offensive . 1st MAW ComdC. To the south of the Air Base, other PAVN/VC main force units attacked the District Town of in Bn and the provincial capital of Qung Nam, Hi An, on Route 4. On 27 January, COMUSMACV General William Westmoreland announced a ceasefire to be observed by Allied forces for 36 hours beginning at 18:00 on 29 January in honor of the Tt holidays. The skirmishing south of the headquarters near Ha Vang, however, continued. Two attached U .S. Westmoreland was convinced that this big push would come either just before or right after Tt, but not during the holidays and probably at Khe Sanh and in the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone sector. Marble Mountain Air Facility supported USMC helicopter operations throughout southern I Corps. [1]:160, By this time, Robertson was worried about the ability to contain the PAVN/VC offensive south of Da Nang. According to them their mission was to mine and interdict allied traffic in the Hi Vn Pass area. "We carried bullet clips in our pockets, but no weapons, because the rifle boxes were nailed shut in their shipping crates. Robertson later compared the enemy activity that night to a "10-ring circus." It was decided that two battalions from the Americal Division code-named Task Force Miracle would be moved into the northern sector of the 3/5 Marines near Route 1 south of the Cau Do. Rocket attack on the Da Nang Air Base that took place, Da Nang, Vietnam, January 30, 1968. Four ARVN M113 armored personnel carriers reinforced by a reconnaissance squad maneuvered to contain the attackers. + Casualty figures reflect all casualties, i.e., USAF, other military and civilians. 15 January 1968 U-10D Courier 66-14334 unit unknown, USAF, base unknown A mortar attack on the airfield at Luang Prabang in Laos destroyed a U-10D Courier. At 07:30, the ROKMC reported about 200 to 300 enemy troops still in Hi An. According to Davis, a few hours later, Robertson called a division briefing for all battalion commanders. Date: July 15, 1967.Visit us at www.CriticalPast.com:57,000+ broadcast-quality historic clips for immediate download.Fully digitized and searchable, the CriticalPast collection is one of the largest archival footage collections in the world. However, because we did not have a firm grasp on the situation, our preparations had been cursory, the movement of our forces forward to seize attack positions had not been well organized and because enemy forces were too numerous and responded fiercely when we attacked, the forces that attacked the city on the night of 29-30 January were unable to seize their assigned objectives. The 6252nd Tactical Fighter Wing was activated at Da Nang on 18 July, 1965, and was responsible as the host unit for operational squadrons assigned to Da Nang, including the 8th and 13th Bombardment Squadrons. "[1]:147[2], Shortly afterwards, Marine fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter gunships blasted the VC in Ha Vang. "The soldiers and cadre of the "South Vietnam Liberation Army" were to move forward in the attack: He personally believed the plans were impractical and deserted at the first chance he had. CriticalPast offers immediate downloads of full-resolution HD and SD masters and full-resolution time-coded screeners, 24 hours a day, to serve the needs of broadcast news, TV, film, and publishing professionals worldwide. The Air Force watch officer on duty protested, "that's too close, you'll never get a clearance for it." 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. After a quick appraisal of the situation, the I Corps commander turned to the senior U.S. advisor at the I Corps Tactical Operations Center, Army Major P.S. At first light, a Marine reaction force found enemy blood trails. After the fixed-wing aircraft and evacuation helicopter cleared the area, the 11th Marines saturated the area with artillery fire. The main body advanced in column maintaining about three to four feet space between each man. Despite the Marine patrolling, PAVN sappers, probably from the 2nd Sapper Battalion, blew three bridges and one culvert over Highway 1 in the pass area. The combined force then swept the general area where they found two PAVN bodies and took three prisoners. Another sapper squad, about the same size as the one that carried out the earlier attack, penetrated the 1st Marine Division Subsector Bravo combat operations center and communications facility on Hill 200, less than 1,000 meters from the main command post on Hill 327. The bulk of the attack force remained in Ha Vang Village bogged down in a firefight with local Popular Force (PF) and Regional Force (RF) troops reinforced by a USMC Combined Action Platoon (CAP), E-3. It also served to block one of the principal avenues of approach to Da Nang from the south. 16. Next Photo. Airbase Shelled: Soviet Rockets Used in Attack (film #111 on Universal Newsreels). DaNang earned the nickname Rocket City during the Vietnam war, having been attacked over 900 times in 10 years. 45 USAF/USMC KIA, 10 aircraft destroyed , 41 aircraft damaged, and 13 barracks destroyed. 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. Again, the Marines killed the VC and once more foiled an apparent enemy demolition effort. Surprised by the initial assault, the engineers fell back, giving up half the camp to the attackers. The III MAF Command Center later that evening radioed MACV in Saigon: "Although the enemy has suffered heavy losses within his local and main force VC units during the past two days, he still possesses a formidable threat utilizing [PAVN] troops poised on the periphery of the Da Nang TAOR. 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