The aircraft may have been one of those used by Air America. While successfully beating back the PAVN attack, the CAP leader called for help. A prisoner captured in Nam O identified a PAVN battalion, probably from the PAVN 4th Regiment, operating below the Hi Vn Pass with the "mission to form civilians for demonstrations." "[1]:163, During the Tet Offensive in Da Nang, both sides experienced heavy casualties. While the Marine battalions successfully kept these initial assaults on the night of 5/6 February in check, Robertson was not sure how much longer they could. NMCB-7 sends a Disaster. CriticalPast is an archive of historic footage. 1969. In fact, elements of both regiments had reached jump-off points just south of the Cau Do River. Lost him to a rocket attack. Although the Koreans and the ARVN surrounded most of the city, the VC still were able to keep their southern flank open. The Marines called in artillery and mortar missions . Despite the thinness of the Marine lines and the ability of the PAVN/VC to infiltrate, they never capitalized on these advantages. Company G repulsed a number of probes throughout the night until the PAVN broke contact at dawn. Built by the Colonial French government of Indochina in 1949, it became a training school for Vietnamese pilots. 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. [1]:141, A conglomeration of Marine support units, ARVN, ROKMC and two Marine infantry battalions attempted to secure the remaining area. By the afternoon of the 31st, the Marines and Rangers had completed their sweep. Lm arrived at the headquarters compound shortly after dawn. Other enemy rocketeers took the Force Logistic Command compound under fire. Finally, according to Marine intelligence officers, another "very reliable source" flatly stated "that the time of attack throughout MR (Military Region) 5 would be" at 01:30 and no later than 02:00 on 30 January. He nevertheless released Task Force Miracle from the operational control of the 1st Marine Division and returned it to the Americal Division. Rockey, the 3/5 Marines commander, commented on the "increasing frequency and ferocity" of enemy contacts. This platoon under First Lieutenant John E. Manning departed the airbase about 04:15 and arrived in the blocking positions about 05:15. ** The first two attacks on DaNang were by mortars. He remembered that because of the number of casualties his battalion sustained, "it was necessary to employ administrative personnel on patrols" with "clerks, cooks, and drivers" on line. The task force headquarters and its two battalions returned to Chu Lai Base Area the following day. 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. For the most part, the PAVN/VC limited their attacks on the Marines to mortar bombardments and harassing small arms fire. The Marine company called in mortar and artillery fire. CriticalPast is your source for imagery of worldwide events, people, and B-roll spanning the 20th century. Mar 3, 2021. 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. After counting 500 men pass their position, Rummage called in the artillery. At 07:30, the ROKMC reported about 200 to 300 enemy troops still in Hi An. During the night, VC resistance dwindled to sniper fire on the ROKMC positions. 15 July 1967Unknown number of VC attacks Da Nang air base in Quang Nam Province with an estimated 50 rounds of suspected 122mm rockets. Countermortar fire quickly silenced the enemy tubes. 366th Security Police K-9. 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. + Casualty figures reflect all casualties, i.e., USAF, other military and civilians. On the ground a patrol from Company A, 1/7 Marines, operating below the battalion's command post on Hill 10, saw about 10 PAVN soldiers just south of the Ty Loan River preparing positions. After a brief firefight, the VC troops withdrew taking any casualties with them. It wrapped around the base and city. [1]:1612, In the ensuing battle of Lo Giang the Marine and Army forces successfully repulsed the PAVN 2nd Division attack. Da Nang, the main Seabee base in the I Corps area, which bordered North Vietnam, came under repeated attack from Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars. Obtenez des photos d'actualit haute rsolution de qualit sur Getty Images One of the rockets damaged one of the missile launchers and wounded three of the Marines. Company L, 3/5 Marines set up blocking positions on the east bank of the Yen. 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). In one operation near Dien Ban, the ARVN 51st Regiment sustained losses of 40 men killed, six missing, and 140 wounded while accounting for about 80 enemy dead and 13 prisoners. This information should also include any information involving plane crashes at the Da Nang base in early 1968. Marine commanders and staff officers could only speculate that the enemy was probably infiltrating north in small groups to "predetermined rallying points" for a further assault either on the city or on the Air Base. In the ensuing firefight fought at a range as close as five meters from one another with the Marines achieving the upper hand. Survived many Rocket Attacks. After calling in artillery which resulted in three secondary explosions, the reconnaissance Marines reported seven enemy killed. Fires started from secondary blasts by bombs and fuel. In the northern sector of Da Nang, PAVN/VC main force troops entered Nam O once again and killed the hamlet chief. [Peter Halferty photo]. 366th AMS, Mystery SP, Bob Hope. The 3/5 Marines together with Companies F and G, 2/3 Marines then began methodically to eliminate pockets of resistance in the general area. 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. As the Marine platoon patrolled along the banks of the Yn, a heavy machine gun suddenly opened up. *** The first time that rockets were used in RVN by the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army. [Peter Halferty photo]. According to an NCO from the PAVN 31st Regiment captured in the fighting, the mission of his unit was to "attack Hi An, five times if necessary, and set up a liberation government. Da Nang Under Heavy Rocketing. Air Force rocket attacks in Vietnam Share 9 posts gleyhjr 44 Aug 30, 2010 #1 The following link is a list of all rocket attacks on Air Bases by date: Hope this helps someone needing a stressor of a rocket attack on a Air Base http://www.afhra.af.mil/timelines/index.asp George Binh Thuy AB RVN Sept 1968-Sept 1969 JimM44 683 This demonstration may have been planned to coincide with an attack on the city which never developed. The MPs shot one of the swimmers, took the other man prisoner and drove off the boats with a fusillade of bullets. Both battalions would be under the operational control of the 1st Marine Division. A warning order and plan prepared by the VC Da Nang City Committee called for a preliminary attack on the city by sappers and VC troops. 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. The . After their breaching of the outer defenses, the VC squad fired B-40 rockets at the headquarters building, but then fought a delaying action, waiting for reinforcements which never came. 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. After calling in helicopter gunships, the ROKMC, at 13:20, reached the MACV compound and linked up with U.S. advisors there. [1]:157, In other sectors of the Da Nang TAOR, the PAVN/VC also maintained the pressure on the Allied forces. It was damaged by the fire of the adjacent aircraft (BuNo 152588) on the night of 29-30 January 1968. In the morning when searching the battle area, the Marines would find "ample evidence of enemy casualties, but only two enemy bodies." Flares light up the Da Nang area to make it easier to spot infiltrating guerrillas. AP Photo U.S. Marines landing in Da Nang, March 8, 1965. Additional intelligence tended to confirm the enemy was about to initiate something big. The attack started at 12:25 AM and an estimated 50 rounds of 122mm rockets were fired at the installation. Base orientation brochure, Perimeter, Tent City. (L to R) Attack of 13 April 1972. By daybreak, the engineers held their own and the situation in Hi An was at a stalemate. According to the Marine after-action report, 3/5 Marines and the attached two companies from the 2/3rd Marines accounted for more than 320 PAVN/VC dead in less than 36 hours. Four ARVN M113 armored personnel carriers reinforced by a reconnaissance squad maneuvered to contain the attackers. In the Hi Vn Pass area in the north, PAVN troops attempted to cut Highway 1. 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. [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. Company M advanced toward a hamlet to the south of the ARVN. The PAVN soldiers wore flak jackets and helmets and carried a machine gun, and a small rocket detachment with six 122mm rockets. Pictures of Danang 11. In this fighting, which had lasted about three hours, the South Vietnamese defenders sustained casualties of three dead, seven wounded, and two damaged armored vehicles. According to the prisoner accounts, they were from the PAVN 3rd Battalion, 31st Regiment and confirmed that "Da Nang itself was the ultimate objective. Entering the town from the southwest, the VC fired about 70 RPGs at the local forces, but never penetrated the defender's perimeter. Shortly after 04:45, General Lm ordered the ARVN 4th Cavalry Regiment, a Ranger battalion and a detachment of National Police to augment the units in Ha Vang and the headquarters personnel forces in the compound. See our A-Level Essay Example on Vietnam war, Modern European History, 1789-1945 now at Marked By Teachers. DaNang Air Base was known as "rocket city" for the number of attacks that occurred there between 1965 and 1973. At 09:15, a squad from Company G, 2/7 Marines providing road security for a Marine engineer mine-sweeping team on Route 1 just below the pass, encountered a small PAVN sapper detachment. Mortar and rocket attacks followed by ground assaults were made all along the perimeter of the base. This would be followed by a rocket barrage and an assault by the main force units on Allied military units and installations. In the initial fighting for Ha Vang, the South Vietnamese and Americans accounted for 25 VC dead. One of the major attacks was against CAP B-3 in the hamlet of Duong Lam (1) just below the Ty Loan River. Rockey then ordered a platoon from his Company K to reinforce Company G. By the end of the day, the elements of the four Marine companies had established their night positions. The VC continued to hold the hospital, however, and part of the engineer compound. Nng AB: 366th TFW: Rocket Attack! Four died there. I called all the regiments and battalions and the same was happening to them. Robertson wanted to "canalize enemy movements in order to develop lucrative targets which could be exploited." The communications bunker bore the brunt of the attack where the sappers destroyed both the bunker and the equipment inside and put the division tactical net off the air until 04:00. This should include information pertaining to the rocket and mortar attacks at the Da Nang Air base from April 1967 to May 1968, to include any attacks occurring on or about July 14, 1967. Heavy explosions and fires on the base. Beginning their attack about 03:00, two companies of the V-25th Battalion used the noise of firecrackers set off and general firing by Tt celebrants to cover their approach. Among the casualties were two Marines killed, including Lieutenant Manning and six wounded from the 1st MP Battalion. Archives. 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. The National Police arrested 25 of the crowd and quickly dispersed the would-be demonstrators. [1]:157, About 5,000 meters to the northwest, later that night, a squad from Company C, 1/7 Marines encountered an enemy force possibly from the same PAVN regiment. On 29 January, Marine intelligence officers received a reliable report that the PAVN 2nd Division also had established its command post in western G Ni. Would like to get in touch w/anyone attached to Security. soldier and wounding two. He moved Company M, 3/7 Marines from its fairly remote position on Hill 52 in the far western reaches of the Vu Gia River Valley above the An Hoa Basin to the more centrally located Hill 65. During one attack I was writing a letter home and thought my guys were injured because of the rocket attack and I remember the no smoking sigh flapping in the wind because of the scrapnel. With part of the force establishing blocking positions north of the hamlet, the rest of the provisional company and Rangers moved through Nam O. Davis notified the division headquarters of his findings. Rummage reported about 50 PAVN dead with another 100 "probable." In addition, the 1st Marine Division alerted one company to participate in the relief of Hi An, if needed. Doc, as his friends called him, was one of 58,200 Americans that died during the Vietnam War. Bldg. Da Nang Air Base : Sapper & Rocket Attacks During The Vietnam War militaryvideocom 40.6K subscribers Subscribe 566 Share Save 123K views 10 years ago This is a preview of our 78-minute. Of the 13-man Recon team, codename Dublin City, one was dead, nine were injured and three escaped unscathed. Cam Ranh Bay AB: US Army 6th Convalescent Hospital debris by Sapper Attack! 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. Rocket attack on the Da Nang Air Base that took place, Da Nang, Vietnam, January 30, 1968. 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. The following day, the same sources indicated that both the VC 1st and the PAVN 3rd Regiments had also withdrawn to the Go Noi. During the day, the division had positioned 11 reconnaissance Stingray patrols along likely enemy avenues of approach. 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. 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. Fourteen aircraft, six pieces of ground support equipment , five buildings, and another two vehicles sustained damage of one sort or another. You get your timing off and you've got problems. [1]:159, On the night of 5/6 February, the PAVN/VC forces began the second phase of their Da Nang offensive. 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. Communist attack of the war on an American stockade or brig. At about the same time, approximately 15 enemy 122mm rockets struck an artillery complex in the 11th Marines Northern Sector Defense Command which included a detachment from the 1st Armored Amphibian Company, the 155mm Gun and 8-inch Gun Batteries, as well as Batteries H, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines and M, 4th Battalion, 11th Marines. [1]:1478, The Marine response to the bombardments was rapid, the 11th Marines artillery units "initiated counter-rocket fires" at suspected avenues of approach. Milantoni relayed the request to the air support center. Although the PAVN troops fled, the Marines found five unexpended 122mm rockets on the site. At Da Nang, III MAF knew that the PAVN/VC were on the move. Mortars and recoilless rifle rounds continued to land inside the headquarters compound from enemy firing positions in Ha Vang. It didn't take long to get out of bed when the first rocket struck nearby. Naval Support Activity Danang operated extensive logistics facilities on the Tiensha (Tin Sa) peninsula east of the city. The crowd scattered only to gather on the fringes of Red Beach Base Area. 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. The attack began about 1 A.M. and the United States command said the missiles were Sovietbuilt 122mm rockets, each weighing about 100 pounds. "The call for assault to achieve independence and liberty has sounded; VMO2, where I would spend the next thirteen months, was just south of DaNang. 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 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. CAP Q-4 there continued to hold out. He seems to think there was only one rocket attack at Da Nang in 1972. . PAVN/VC fired rockets at both the Da Nang Air Base and Marble Mountain Air Facility. Army forces in the Da Nang area including the troops from Task Force Miracle suffered 18 dead and 59 wounded. [1]:1502, On the morning of the 31st, the Marines of Company I, now reinforced by the ARVN and the AmTrac Marines, surveyed the results of the fighting and continued to mop up the remnants of the VC force. U.S. air policemen take cover and leave their jeep as they come under sniper fire near Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam on January 30, 1968, after it was hit by a rocket barrage. Flight line VMO-2 after mortar / rocket attack "Tet Offensive" 1968. . [1]:160, The fighting continued during the night and into the next day. From the recovery of Lam's notebook and a detailed sketch map of Hill 10, the location of the 1/7 Marines' command post, the R-20 commander was obviously on an exploration mission to discover any vulnerability in the Marine battalion's defences. During the next few days, Task Force Miracle conducted sweeps in its sector and encountered relatively little resistance . Employing small arms fire, satchel charges, Rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and Bangalore torpedoes, the sappers thrust through blown gaps in the Marine wire. Remains of 45-1102; sandbag detail later. Other units included the 402nd Sapper Battalion, the VC V-25th Battalion and other VC local forces. With the PAVN too close to call in artillery or fixed-wing air, the Marines radioed for reinforcements. The battalion was alerted and airlifted from Twentynine Palms, California, to Cherry Point, North Carolina, with its . He arrived with 19 other soldiers, eight of whom were embalmers. The ARVN 51st Regiment operating in the southern sector of the Da Nang area of operations came across evidence including documents pointing to a buildup of PAVN/VC strength together with probes of Allied defenses. About two-and-a-half hours later, the VC units "ceased fire and withdrew." Hill received a telephone call at 03:45 on the 30th from Colonel Thomas Randall, the III MAF G-3, who asked him "to send three platoons to blocking positions south of I Corps headquarters." Robertson later compared the enemy activity that night to a "10-ring circus." The reaction force itself came under automatic weapons fire and RPGs disabled the two tanks. Reinforced by another squad, the Company G Marines killed three and captured two. They later found three enemy bodies at the site wearing black pajamas under their green utilities. "The soldiers and cadre of the "South Vietnam Liberation Army" were to move forward in the attack: "[1]:1545, By this time, the Tet Offensive was in full bloom, not only at Da Nang, but throughout South Vietnam. 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. At 17:00 on 29 January, Westmoreland cancelled the truce in the entire I Corps sector. In the Da Nang sector, during the early morning hours of 30 January, PAVN/VC gunners took under mortar and rocket fire 15 different Allied units and installations. Shortly after 18:00, an air observer reported seeing 25-30 enemy troops in trenchlines, bunkers and fighting holes. 45 USAF/USMC KIA, 10 aircraft destroyed , 41 aircraft damaged, and 13 barracks destroyed. About 09:00, Lieutenant Colonel Rockey, the 3/5 Marines commander, ordered a small command group and two companies, Company M of his battalion and Company F, 2/3 Marines attached to his command, to the relief of the ARVN camp. More like this Camp Friendship Korat Cat Air Force Special Operations Vietnam War Photos May Bay North Vietnam Air Force Bases Vietnam Veterans There were still ominous signs and actions that the enemy push on Da Nang was not over. A summary of these attacks can be found on the Web site of the 366th. The Marines lost one helicopter and sustained damage to 29 others. "[1]:159, The heaviest action occurred in the 3/5 Marines and 4th Battalion, 51st ARVN sectors along Highway 1. [1]:160, By this time, Robertson was worried about the ability to contain the PAVN/VC offensive south of Da Nang. They counted 34 PAVN dead. 07-18 488 ) DATE ) ) On appeal from the Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Muskogee, . The United States Air Force took control of the base in the late 1960s. The Marines killed two and wounded the third. According to documents captured later, the two VC assault companies were to pull out at first light, but became bogged down in the city. 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. [1]:1534, On the night of the 30th, elements of a battalion of the PAVN 4th Regiment attacked an ARVN outpost at the foot of the Hi Vn Pass. Vietcong rocket attack on the U.S. Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam HD Stock Footage CriticalPast 308K subscribers Subscribe 56K views 8 years ago CriticalPast is an archive of historic footage.. The VC R-20 and V-25th Battalions had struck again at Hi An, engaging both the Korean Marine Brigade and the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the ARVN 51st Regiment. 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. Two other squad patrols from Company C in the vicinity quickly joined the first squad. 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. [1]:154, South of Da Nang, in Hi An, on the 30th, the ROKMC, reinforced by elements of the ARVN 51st Regiment, tried to tighten the loop and began preparations to retake the city. At about 07:40, a crowd of 400 Vietnamese civilians made up mostly of women and children and carrying PAVN and VC flags approached the CAP compound. 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. In the Southern Sector Defense Command, just north of the Cu River and west of Highway 1, a PAVN/VC 12-15-man sapper squad blew a hole in the defensive wire of the joint perimeter of the 7th Engineer and 7th Communication Battalion. The first U.S. air strikes also occur against the Ho Chi Minh trail. The Marines and PF troops fired at armed members of the crowd who appeared to be directing the march. Marine and Army reconnaissance flights using infrared technology and XM-3 "People Sniffer" airborne personnel detectors (APD) mounted on UH-1 helicopters indicated strong enemy concentrations in the hills near Hiu c west of the 7th Marines. [1]:150, By this time, General Robertson had taken measures to bolster the ARVN south of the Cau Dau. 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. 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. 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. In I Corps, the Allies learned from a defector that the enemy planned an attack against Qung Ngi City. 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. [1]:163, The official PAVN history records the attack as follows:[3]. 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. ARVN intelligence officers speculated that the battalion from the PAVN 4th Regiment was supposed to have spearheaded the attack on the city of Da Nang the previous day, but arrived too late to influence the battle. In the attack, the PAVN/VC fired 122mm rockets at Marine artillery positions at An Hoa, Hill 55 and Hill 10. Nearly 11 million liters of Agent Orange were handled on the base. . In one contact about 16:45, Company M, 3/5 Marines met a force of 100 PAVN/VC troops. South Vietnamese and Korean casualties probably equalled or slightly exceeded the U.S. losses. Firing from well-concealed and dug-in firing positions, the PAVN machine gunners and infantry took a heavy toll of the Marines. At 08:30 a CAP saw a number of VC attempting to swim across the Cu to the island. [1]:146, At 03:30, on the other side of the main Da Nang Bridge, MPs noticed two VC in the water and several sampans approaching. III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) had its headquarters at Hill 327 west of the Air Base, while ARVN I Corps had its headquarters north of the Air Base. Pictures of Danang 8. "[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. Even in the face of the artillery, the PAVN continued their advance upon the Marine positions. Today, several areas on the Da Nang Base including the loading, storage and mixing areas and Sen Lake to the north and the Pacer Ivy area at the south of the base have been confirmed to have . [ Bob Kaatman photo ] Second cache of bombs ignites. "[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. All attacks from 02/27/67 forward were by rockets. 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]. Cleaning up and repairs at Gunfighter Village. "We carried bullet clips in our pockets, but no weapons, because the rifle boxes were nailed shut in their shipping crates. In a message to III MAF, Robertson observed "Never have so few done so much to so many. In the 7th Marines sector, the Marines described the same type of activity as well as increased enemy infiltration. 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