Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “When the Viet Cong Sank an Aircraft Carrier” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/when-the-viet-cong-sank-an-aircraft-carrier/.
When the Viet Cong Sank an Aircraft Carrier
- Thread starter Mike H.
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Wow, never heard of this before... Clever devils and why in the end they are making some quality products we and the World are buying.
I did serve, but only after we pulled out of that quagmire Then as now, see it as total mistake and bless those that were drafted and those that served in that mess. A special blessing to the tens of thousands that lost their lives in that ill-conceived "police action" into a civil war that should have been avoided.
I did serve, but only after we pulled out of that quagmire Then as now, see it as total mistake and bless those that were drafted and those that served in that mess. A special blessing to the tens of thousands that lost their lives in that ill-conceived "police action" into a civil war that should have been avoided.
So I am guessing, this was the reason my ship had catwalk watches while in DaNang Harbor. A 4 hour watch, walking back and forth on the catwalk, armed with an old M1 Garrand ... looking for trash in the water, or anything that could effectively hide, a swimmer, trying to get close to a ship to plant charges. In the various visits to the harbor ... there may have been two suspicious masses of floating garbage seen. One I saw ... was large enough to disguise a swimmer, was moving in an odd manner ... so I contacted the OOD, who came down, with a concussion grenade. He confirmed it looked suspicious, Handed the grenade to me, and I threw it into the collection of floating rubbish.
It exploded, no evidence of a body or swimmer, so after twenty minutes, the OOD returned to his coffee, and I continued my watch for about an hour more, until I got relieved and went to my rack.
The only other excitement for being on a catwalk watch was when the VietCong, shelled an airstrip and happened to catch a fuel depot. As always it seemed the skies were heavily overcast, with thick clouds, that turned bright orange with the flames of the fire after the explosion. We were too far out, to see the flames, or even hear the explosions, but the entire sky turned orange, due to the fire off the clouds.
It exploded, no evidence of a body or swimmer, so after twenty minutes, the OOD returned to his coffee, and I continued my watch for about an hour more, until I got relieved and went to my rack.
The only other excitement for being on a catwalk watch was when the VietCong, shelled an airstrip and happened to catch a fuel depot. As always it seemed the skies were heavily overcast, with thick clouds, that turned bright orange with the flames of the fire after the explosion. We were too far out, to see the flames, or even hear the explosions, but the entire sky turned orange, due to the fire off the clouds.
ProudTiger
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Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “When the Viet Cong Sank an Aircraft Carrier” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/when-the-viet-cong-sank-an-aircraft-carrier/.
ProudTiger
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Of all things... Here it is some 67 years later and I read about Roy Boehm -- UDT man who found the charge that sunk the USS Card. I knew Roy Boehm back in 1959. I was an Ensign and OPS Officer aboard the USS Utina ATF 163 berthed at the Little Creek Amphib Base in Norfolk VA. Roy was probably the XO of a sister ATF berthed there. Roy was a Great Navy officer! Jack Bowers CAPT USN (ret)