Chu Lai Air Base 1965-1968: Marines, Seabees, Army & Special

[MoreWhiteBabies]

I'm looking for video that would contain the 2nd battalion 4th Marines, 3rd division coming ashore Chu Lai in May 1965. PLEASE.

[jrpeters11]

My brother Fred Peters served in chu lai in 1968 does anyone remember him.

[aMarinedaughter]

Disbursing? This is interesting because it shows some of what life would have been like, when they weren't carrying out operations. I wonder how many got welcomed by a beautiful girl on the beach. 0.000000001% maybe?

[1oliverg]

Thank you, I was there 45 years ago, 65-66 2/7 Marines search & destory base camp. It truly was beautiful country side right at the sea. That was an A4 Skyhawk short take off capabilities

[yullkiss95]

thanks you for uploading

[youbestbequiet]

My father served here from 67-70. Thanks for uploading, was hoping maybe I'd see his face somewhere.

[d090j]

american! welcome to viet nam,

welcome to your grave :D

[MultiMunch12]

does any body remember the 8 man flag football tournament in da nang. I was a bomb humper and they said we couldn't play because of the frag orders. we overflowed the revetments with enough bombs for 4 days and went anyway, came in third, what fun. The movie Mash came out right after that.

[obxjeepguy]

My Dad, and I were just talking about this. He was one of the first to be on this base. He was an F4 flight mechanic. In fact, this base didn't exist when he first got there.

[f4tweet]

@obxjeepguy

The first planes were A-4's. They flew off the short SATS strip with moorest and JATO over by the pine trees. This would later become the MAG-12 billeting area. The F-4 Phantoms came after they finished the main runway.

[obxjeepguy]

@f4tweet I may have the F4, and the A4 confused somehow. Now I can't remember which ones they were. All I know is they had WP on the tails....

[grampawipe]

@obxjeepguy A-4 was a single seat, one engine ( we called their drivers Tinker Toy Pilots. F-4 was the two engine Phantom.

[CommunistSocialist]

Lol the bear at 0:24 so cute~~~.

[carsonm2009]

hey i know dan

[cpsims1972]

if anybody ever sees a tank with a bull skull on the front email me. its my dads tank. " the lonely bull" 68-69 im looking for that deadly gook killing bull. 3rd mar. div.

[atursix]

I have this complete DVD. At 29 seconds into this clip, of the 2 guys humping the bomb that's me on the left and my old friend John Perseo at the other end.

[unckadan]

Thats me and I can prove it. It is VMFA 323 and that is a 250# bomb!!

[diamondsis13]

Yes, that's my brother Dan!

[atursix]

Hi, Dan,

Atursix here. I sent a reply to one of your posts but don't see it here. Hope you'll find it in your email and that you'll contact me; I think you'd enjoy corresponding. After kicking my memory cells, you're 100% right. I was with VMFA-542 at Chu Lai (66-67); knew John Perseo (and that's him with you in video, isn't it?) - we went thru PI together, then ord school at Cherry Point before VMFA-531, and I knew him again at Cherry Point when I returned CONUS 68. BR and Semper fi. Ed

[diamondsis13]

Looks like my brother Dan.

[TOMP66666]

Ho chi Minh is never a nationalist but a disgusting TRAITOR. He was a member of the Third Communist International known as "Comintern" established in 1919 by Lenin to fight for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic (the Soviet Union). Therefore, Ho chi Minh must work for interests of the Soviet Union, not for "selfish" interests of Vietnam. In other words, he is just a tool of the Soviet Union to conquer the world.

[Wordman67]

My father was stationed in Chu Lai 1967-68. Marines. 9th Engineers Battalion.

[tableserver]

I was there in 68. The 723rd Maint Bn supporting the 196th & 198th Infantry brigrades

[tes59]

chu lai april 1968 /april 1969,,11th Inf. brigade

[pfizzbones]

My dad, Richard Lynn Gray, was 11th Inf. Brigade, B Co. 1/20th 1st Bat. Americal Div. about the same time. Was wounded in Oct 68, lost both legs. Been trying to find people from his unit.

[wsucougarx]

My father was w/1/20th INF, 11th LIB, D CO from 1969-1970 SGT Michael Henderson

[soxbearshwks]

Chu Lai 10/65-11/66

3rd Batt 7th Marines

[1976outsider]

my dad was there in 65 when the seabees first built the airfield, he was one of the "original 12" crash fire and rescue, Arley Roberts