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Our generators were not even running yet so I heard the rocket coming in. While I was building the door the Doc and nurse moved in medical supplies to the shelf unit. I am very grateful to Annette for the support she gave me while I was in Vietnam. and created an overlay of the changes to the harbor, which was It must have been about 1100 hr. area or any of the DaNang area, I will continue It was a Saturday, perhaps we were finishing up the cook shed. Then after thinking about it I realized how wrong I was. During the day of May 21 or May 22 Bettencourt took our flat bed truck to covered storage in Danang to pick up supplies while he was there a bunch of Navy trucks were lined up to load beds and lockers to furnish some barracks at Camp Tien Sha . a small cargo plane in the middle of the night, all I Camp Fay in the evening and morning. There was always something interesting to watch at Camp Books. I don't know what the building Often times during a rocket or mortar attack rounds would over shoot landing in Hoa Kahn or Dog Patch ,providing children for the Clinic. that's one of our generators upper left. Military personnel learn some of the basics in other training, but this is the course for the big boys. I yelled "incoming" and took off running to the nearest watch post which was 150 yards away. Guard shacks along the pipe line to the ESSO fuel plant, Oil Tanker off loading at the ESSO fuel plant. They were only a couple hundred yards away! He didn't mince words. " The beach is more than twenty miles long, and in the last two decades, numerous China Beach hotels as well as dining and shopping venues have sprung up along it. Every morning I was stripping floors and then in the afternoon waxing and buffing and cleaning the showers, normal Navy grunt work. The PTFs, under Vietnamese officers and crews, conducted over 1,000 raids against North Vietnam from March-April 1964 to January 1972. One Square Mile of Vietnam: Da Nang - BBC News Guess earlier generations of residents at Camp Fay had their Late in the day we had built them a nice hootch and had them moved in. The kids head had been stitched up and looked just like a soccer ball. Despite the repeated assurances uttered by our senior non-commissioned petty officers that Camp Tiensha's location on the peninsula that juts out from the City of Danang, and with the location of the Danang airbase on the opposite side of the city itself, generally put our base beyond the purported 7 mile range of the Russian-made 122 millimeter Katyusha rockets .