DaNang Area of Operations 1st Platoon, 21st RAC 1969

[shakeybeatz]

Fuck it ! Im watching hamburger hill.. Again.

[shakeybeatz]

I love watching these old nam vids from the comfort of my home whilst smoking a fat one.

[sn1pe352]

i grew up with vets

they always told me that it's not respect for the troops they want

it's not kiss ass corporate brainwashing they want

they always said the best form of thank you was to see people living happily and artistically , in a sense finding ways to bring reason and peace so i dedicate my page to you guys, the vets

[BuzzDailey]

Thank you for this video. I was at An Hoa 69-70 with Echo 3/11. The footage around that area was great to see after 41+ years! The Arizona Territory and Go Noi Island still bring back some bad memories!!

[randv213]

this is where my dad was too :) if anyone has any answers for me of how i can find footage of the bob hope show at freedom hill please let me know. My dad danced with connie stevens at that show and we have been looking for the footage for years! please help

[randv213]

this is where my dad was too :)

[sergeantsailorman]

I was at Marble with the Marines 69-70. In your Dad's film, at 04:31 my squadron's hanger is the large tin building shown. Marble Mountain Air facility was cut in half by the runway. On the ocean side was all Marines. On the inland side, the north end was Marines, and the south end was Army. Two Marine helicopter squadrons were on the Army side. Mine, with whom I flew combat missions in the CH-46 was HMM-161. Good times, bad times, strange times, but all old times. Semper Fi. Rusty

[bigc028282]

My dad spoke of DaNang often as a place to get away from those other places like ConTien and the razorbacks. 67-68

Yrs later he found out that Marble Mountain had a NVA center/hospital inside.

[andyk444]

There will always be war, there will always be governments selling weapons to rouge states, why, because the defence industry is the biggest industry out of all the others put together and most politicians have their fingers in the defence pie in one for or another either directly or through secondary industries.

[ElmerFunk]

Then, in WWII, Roosevelt was so against going to war, and, reluctant to declare such, and, didn't do so until an act of War was made against us in Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on us before we did on them. And that was still long after their U-Boats were sinking many of our Freight Ships carrying supplies to the suffering Brits. And FDR IGNORED the intelligence and knew we would be struck at P.H. - so, why don't we declare war so we can go and win these conflicts militarily w/o Politics?

[ElmerFunk]

WHY I don't understand that we have failed to and not DECLARED WAR in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (#1 a.k.a. Desert Shame), Iraq #2, a.k.a. Enduring Freedom (and Incurring Fatalities), Afghanistan a.k.a.. and these ASSHOLE Politicians set once again to make sure that in each case and conflict since Vietnam, each one was like Vietnam, with the rules of engagement so contradictory to what the Senior Officers learned at the War college at Ft. McNair/Ft. Meyer, and against all we know!

[clinburco]

people like southern there would let you rape their wives and mothers and kill their children as long as you wouldn't hurt them

[zzzpqd]

After January 1973 signing of the US/SVN/NVN peace agreement, we were no longer at war with North Vietnam. Do your own research if you want to know the truth. You can't lose a war once you have agreed to peace with that country. We have been at peace with North Vietnam since the peace agreement.

[offlineri]

true. but, nevertheless -. the official declaration of war never came, is it true? so, how can someone sign a PEACE agreement if one is not at war???

[WonderousFrance2009]

A real AMERICAN is an AMERICAN LOSER!!!!

[zzzpqd]

Ho Chi Mihn was first and foremost a communit agent. We won every major military engagement and destroyed every NVA/VC offensives to take control of the country. US made a deal with North Vietnam and China for the US to get out and for South Vietnam to be allowed to find a peaceful reunification with the North. North Vietnam renegged on the deal that is why China became an enemy of Vietnam. The North set US free from any further responsibility for Vietnam.

[SouthernSlaveStates]

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth"--Adolf Hitler.

And LOSERS should stop barking non-sense. Who will trust the LOSERS??? ^_^

[DarkheartTheHeritic]

@SouthernSlaveStates

did you seriously just quote hitler......

ppl like u give the south a bad name man

[SouthernSlaveStates]

At least Hitler wasn't hypocritical as the yanks.

[DarkheartTheHeritic]

@SouthernSlaveStates

thats really wat ur going to say as ur response.......

[JEZUZ915]

DEMOCRATS lost the war in Vietnam. DONT FORGET IT! Johnson's ass backwards "politically sensitive"- the father of political correctness B.S.- is what killed Americans. There is no reason, why the Republic could not be today-the jewl of S.E.A.

[jesseinbuffalo]

This is where my dad was in '69.

[quangluu96]

@jesseinbuffalo Is he home safe?

[jesseinbuffalo]

@quangluu96 Yes he is thanks.

[m14m1a1]

@jesseinbuffalo Mine too, McCarthy

[captaineddies]

Real nice video. I also have 8 mm converted to VHS 12th Combat Avaition Phu Loi 1966-67 ED

[uggati]

Well, we spent billions in Vietnam, and all we did was delay the inevitable. Our gov't went to war and all we got was a lousy t-shirt and of course lost the benefits those billions coulda done here at home.

Now 40 years later and guess wot -- our g-damn elite leaders haven't learned a f-ckin thing. Well, thank goodness we're winnin' the Iraq-a-ghanistan war the same way we won the Vietnam war! G-d bless our brilliant leaders Cheney & Bush (in that order).

[Bigdaph]

Actually we were still getting benefits here at home simultaneously.

[opforusa]

Great Society. Spend spend spend

[Worldcitizen1974]

Really interesting to watch. I am in Danang right now on business and stayed at one of the beach resorts. As we drove out we passed the old Air Facility , the ghostly remains of the aircraft bunkers and some dilapidated guard towers. Amazing to think that 40 years before the US had a powerful airbase here. The locals love talking about the period and it is great to see it in pictures. I can only pity the conditions you guys had to endure, The heat and constant heavy rainfall and flooding.

[BOGNOID2000]

Ah, what memories!

The heat, the stench, the death.

368 days of bliss!

I hated every day I was there (Dec 68 - Dec 69)

[tradercris]

Shame you "werent allowed to win". Or that's what GW said (honestly). What a joke, ARVN wouldnt fight but douche bags who ran away themselves (Bush, Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, Paul Wolfowitz, Rudy Guiliani etc etc) still think that mess was a good idea!

[trulyheaven777]

The real shame was the US not helping Ho Chi Minh in kicking the French out of Vietnam instead of what we did (and he did ask for our help). That would have killed two birds with one stone. And we would have been right in every way, including keeping the commies out..

[JEZUZ915]

You are what SKINNY WHITE BOYS with pimples on there face and vaginas between there legs grow up to be. Please put another OBAMA sticker on your bumper and draw another rendition of his penis on your wall.

[hotelperson]

I was with 3/1 in 1966-67 around Marble Mountain. Good pictures. Knew the area will from walking much of it!

[NcicHit]

I was stationed at Camp Tien Sha from 1967 to 1969. I worked for Utilities NSA at China Beach. Our building was right across the road from the PX. I had to go all over DaNang and it was great looking at this video. It brought back a lot of memories.

[toob2u]

i was stationed at camp tien sha for all of '69, this is the first pictures i've seen of it since i left, very strange indeed, thanx

[littejoe]

hi was there at the end name joe

[ub12]

I was in H&HS 1ST MAW, 67-68 Maj General Anderson

[truckereleven]

thanks for taking the time to post this. I was with MAG 16, MABS 16 Radio Repair shop across from the chapel at Marble Mountain 68-69.

[panoz100]

That was my unit! I was in Chu Lai for six months, and the in Da Nang for the last six months...Jan-Dec '69. Anyone that was in the 21st RAC during that time, please email me.

[sfremgen]

Thanks for the memories. I was with HMM-263 at MMAF in 69-70. This video gives me something to share with the family and point out... "I was right there!"

Sgt Steve

USMC 66-70

[enigma9051]

Man did this bring back memories. So much I had forgotten since 1969/70. I could make out MMAF, some of the hangers and my hooch.

Thanks for posting this.