Posted by Jim H SW-PA on November 11, 2008 at 15:26:46 from (75.88.187.195):
In Reply to: Re: Vet roll call posted by Dave_Id on November 11, 2008 at 12:52:43:
Dave we have something in common from that era, Our unit handled the supplies to build that air strip in 1965 it was probably cement by the time you used it. We supplied the [ PSP] Pierced steel planking, for the original. Then we moved on to Tuy Hoa, where the rest of my tour ended. We did in fact while in Phan Rang have three Air force men overlook the Items as they came in they lived in our compound until the base was set up, and the rest of their squadron came.
While in Tuy Hoa we came under fire on three different occasions as the VC was testing our strength, the last time I was involved there was 41 VC dead two American wounded. I heard it got worse after I came back. WE were in what the Army called a secure area.
While I was there a civilian company built a 5 mile stretch of runway that now probably is a major highway to the town of Tuy Hoa.
We had an ongoing joke of the birdmen as when they were bombing the mountain ranges around us. The married pilots would barely skim the top of the mountain before releasing their bombs , and the single guys would take them in and put them in the enemy's pocket. nerve racking as we thought several times they crashed.
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