Saigon, Vietnam 1968 - 1969 / Sài Gòn, Việt Nam năm 1968 - năm 1969

These scenes of Saigon and the C-130 crew Merlin hotel were taken during the second half of 1968 into 1969 when I was serving as a C-130B copilot flying out of TSN, Vietnam. The music is Hat Tren Nhung Xac Nguoi (Singing above The Dead Bodies) sung by Khanh Ly,

Những cảnh của Sài Gòn và C-130 thủy thủ đoàn Merlin khách sạn đã được thực hiện trong nửa thứ hai của năm 1968 vào năm 1969 khi tôi đang phục vụ như là một CoPilot C-130B bay TSN, Việt Nam. Âm nhạc là Hat Tren Nhung Xac Nguoi (Hát trên xác chết) hát bởi Khánh Ly

Thanks to Huan Pham for providing this translation:



Noon, I walk the hills/
Now I sing the dead/
On the roads, I have seen, I have seen/
Each one has one, this one screams//

Noon, I walk the hills/
Now I sing the dead/
I have seen, I have seen, garden here:/
Dead tired ma holds her dead girl//

This ma claps above her child/
This ma claps for peace, for peace/
Here some clap for life, for life/
Here some clap for end of life//

Noon, by berry groves/
Now I sing the dead/
By a road, I have seen, I have seen/
Old man hugs his stone cold son//

Noon, by berry groves/
Now I sing the dead/
I have seen, I have seen, ditches, shelters/
Filled with bodies, his and hers//

This ma claps, lets have more war/
This one clap, no more, no more/
Here some clap for hate, for blame/
Here some clap to shake off shame//


(translated by Patrick Gallagher)

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[hoogerwerf4106]

I have not read "Bloods." I looked it up on Amazon.com and it has had good reviews. I looks like a good read and I added it to my Vietnam era reading list. Thanks!

[hoogerwerf4106]

Regretfully I do not have any info on the mini tet or other attacks. I arrived in Saigon on May 20, 1968 and am not familiar with the French quarter or cemetary. Maybe another viewer can respond with helpful information? Best wishes!

[hoogerwerf4106]

MinhDuclllllll7 is correct. The mini-tet was going on at the time. If you look at the French Opera House in the clip, you will see a shinny section of the roof on the right. This is new roofing where a rocket impacted.

[uraniumcompound]

TheBill: Also, I don't know how this youtube stuff works. I posted stuff on you page but I don't know where it went. Stay well. Yea though I walk through the shadow of death I will fear no evil, etc.

[uraniumcompound]

If I recall correctly, at 20 yrs of age. They had me posted on the top of an antenna tower (at least; I thought, 300' high) over and near the headquarters command TSN. I criss crossed smoke and bomb drops with two other locations to determine grid locations. Scared the stuff out of me for 12 hrs a day. Another day, stay well troops.

[uraniumcompound]

TheBillbrad Thanks for the rely. Please respond via e-mail so I can inquire on some dates. I am in process of V.A. claim. tango Yankee (Stay well)

[TheBillbrad]

@TheBillbrad NVA and VC came through the Cemetery using headstones for cover. At dawn we had a rocket attack followed by an assault by Charlie in the cemetery. ARVN guards , with reinforcements held off the enemy until A1E SkyRaiders bombed them and broke the attack. I'm pretty sure the VC came through the perimeter on the far side of the airfield, also that morning. Shrapnel from the bombs fell on our barracks, and of course, being USAF REMFs, we were not issued weapons.

[TheBillbrad]

@uraniumcompound I was stationed at TSN in '67-'68 with the 460 TRS. barracked in the 1200 area with the back of the barracks facing the French Grave Yard. The mini Tet as you called it was known to me as the May Offensive in '68.

[TheDucphat]

Thanks for your clip

[Ravene2009]

Great Song (and video)!

[USAF7758]

To many memories of that beautiful city, Pearl of the South Pacific. My last time there was Apr '68.

We really screwed those people pulling out like we did - almost had it won. Screw the liberal, pinko news media!

Would love to go back some day.

[uraniumcompound]

utubemac 100: No, I don't know the song check with hoogerwerf4106, who posted it. I do remember watching a couple of t.v. programs back then and they had the same indigenous type music without the western flavor. keep on keeping on.

[utubemac100]

what's the song in this clip ?

it's very well