We lived in tents in the Plantation area (rear bunker line) closer to II Field Forces. Ammo dump explosion was about 9 am. I had my camera out. Two of us were taking pics of damage from 122mm rockets. That explosion was beautiful in a horrible way. Instead of sitting down and getting the sequence of the development of the fireball I ducked behind a sandbag wall and only took a photo of the remaining black plume of smoke. I'm still kicking myself over that to this day. The jets were Navy F-4 Phantoms. Two made napalm runs right to left and then left to right. A third made a 20mm gatling run. A Huey C model gunship hovered close by and fired rockets into the scrub. Probably minigun too. There were VC in the scrub and also in the widow's village across the highway from the front perimeter. They waited to attack until morning which was a poor plan. The bunkers were manned and gunships were available. Later, ACAV elements of the 9th Infantry Div who had been prepositioned swept through any remaining VC. Still later, part of the 11th Armored Cav arrived and set up positions on the rear bunker line. They did a "mad minute" firing every weapon they had into the scrub. Sometime in Feb the scrub area was completely bulldozed down to bare earth. By that time we had moved to Bien Hoa AFB. So saw the later ammo dump explosions from a distance. We = 3rd Platoon 101st Radio Research Company. You might find "The Battle for Saigon Tet1968" interesting.
I agree wholeheartedly. The good American soldiers who fought there were great heroes. It wasn't until later that the communist led anti-war bullshit created that our forces deteriorated somewhat. For 7 long years our servicemen led the fight there with courage, bravery, honor, and sacrifice in the great moral tradition of the best American fighting men. Up until 1970 they did nothing but set the North back and kept aggressively taking the fight to the commies. They deserve nothing short of our respect and gratitude. All of them. The "red diaper doper babies" types from NYU and the like, with the assistance of the commies proper, led the social and moral decay that goes with their territory. And somehow the vets were tarred and feathered in the propagandized popular mind of the time. It's patently UNTRUE. GOD bless them for their service. They were called and they showed up.
Nuke is exactly what we all thought. We had an aircrew coming back from Tay Ninh and they saw the shockwave from 30 miles away. Was your dad there for the 2nd. time sappers hit the dump the night of February 18, 1968? Did he work on putting that fire out also. Your dad is a brave hero as artillery shells cooked off exploding all night long.@@roofdriller1537
@@hughescrewchief836 he was hit in the back with artillery shell cannister as he puts it, said his flack jacket saved him. He was in 554th engineers. on a dozer for 18 hr. straight trying to put that fire out. he talks about all the shit that went by him and the sound of it.
@@roofdriller1537 Yeah I will never forget the sound of the ammo cooking off. I will have to look up the 554th. I have an SF buddy that was an engineer in 1966-67. I will have to ask him what unit. I was about 500 or 600 yds away from the fire. Your dad is a hero.
Every morning on the way to the days mission we listened to "Good Morning Vietnam" on the AM direction finding radio. As did everyone else. Thanks for watching.
Sorry I was there when it was filmed. Sapper attack on the Long Binh ammo dump and U.S. airstrikes on the 195th AHC perimeter. Notice the planes are not MIgs. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Roger that. It was sappers that got the ammo dump. Was stationed at Bien Hoa with 145th Combat Aviation Bn when this happened. Helluva a fireworks show. Our Air Assault Companies and personnel(incl me)were very busy during Tet 68.
We lived in tents in the Plantation area (rear bunker line) closer to II Field Forces. Ammo dump explosion was about 9 am. I had my camera out. Two of us were taking pics of damage from 122mm rockets. That explosion was beautiful in a horrible way. Instead of sitting down and getting the sequence of the development of the fireball I ducked behind a sandbag wall and only took a photo of the remaining black plume of smoke. I'm still kicking myself over that to this day.
The jets were Navy F-4 Phantoms. Two made napalm runs right to left and then left to right. A third made a 20mm gatling run.
A Huey C model gunship hovered close by and fired rockets into the scrub. Probably minigun too.
There were VC in the scrub and also in the widow's village across the highway from the front perimeter. They waited to attack until morning which was a poor plan. The bunkers were manned and gunships were available. Later, ACAV elements of the 9th Infantry Div who had been prepositioned swept through any remaining VC. Still later, part of the 11th Armored Cav arrived and set up positions on the rear bunker line. They did a "mad minute" firing every weapon they had into the scrub.
Sometime in Feb the scrub area was completely bulldozed down to bare earth.
By that time we had moved to Bien Hoa AFB. So saw the later ammo dump explosions from a distance.
We = 3rd Platoon 101st Radio Research Company.
You might find "The Battle for Saigon Tet1968" interesting.
This part of history should be added to our education system so students can understand what our veterans went through and did.
I agree wholeheartedly. The good American soldiers who fought there were great heroes. It wasn't until later that the communist led anti-war bullshit created that our forces deteriorated somewhat. For 7 long years our servicemen led the fight there with courage, bravery, honor, and sacrifice in the great moral tradition of the best American fighting men. Up until 1970 they did nothing but set the North back and kept aggressively taking the fight to the commies. They deserve nothing short of our respect and gratitude. All of them. The "red diaper doper babies" types from NYU and the like, with the assistance of the commies proper, led the social and moral decay that goes with their territory. And somehow the vets were tarred and feathered in the propagandized popular mind of the time. It's patently UNTRUE. GOD bless them for their service. They were called and they showed up.
The "Long Binh ammo dump fire" is actually a photo from Khe Sanh of a Marine ammo dump fire.
my dad was a dozer operator, he fought fire for 18 hours at this place, he recalls seeing the first initial mushroom from the explosion.
Did your dad get to see this video? If so I hope he enjoyed it. Much respect to your dad for his brave service.
@@hughescrewchief836 yea i showed him, and he said this was genuine, and he told me when at first sight, thought a nuke had went off.
Nuke is exactly what we all thought. We had an aircrew coming back from Tay Ninh and they saw the shockwave from 30 miles away. Was your dad there for the 2nd. time sappers hit the dump the night of February 18, 1968? Did he work on putting that fire out also. Your dad is a brave hero as artillery shells cooked off exploding all night long.@@roofdriller1537
@@hughescrewchief836 he was hit in the back with artillery shell cannister as he puts it, said his flack jacket saved him. He was in 554th engineers. on a dozer for 18 hr. straight trying to put that fire out. he talks about all the shit that went by him and the sound of it.
@@roofdriller1537 Yeah I will never forget the sound of the ammo cooking off. I will have to look up the 554th. I have an SF buddy that was an engineer in 1966-67. I will have to ask him what unit. I was about 500 or 600 yds away from the fire. Your dad is a hero.
I was at 90th replacement long Bin that day just got into Vietnam the day before. Sat there for 4 days before they moved us out to our units
I was on perimeter guard duty opening moments.
Not everyone knows this but CCR played across all communications system 24 hrs a day during Nam.
Every morning on the way to the days mission we listened to "Good Morning Vietnam" on the AM direction finding radio. As did everyone else. Thanks for watching.
This was an artillery strike as no aircraft the nva had went into south vietnam
Sorry I was there when it was filmed. Sapper attack on the Long Binh ammo dump and U.S. airstrikes on the 195th AHC perimeter. Notice the planes are not MIgs. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Roger that. It was sappers that got the ammo dump. Was stationed at Bien Hoa with 145th Combat Aviation Bn when this happened. Helluva a fireworks show. Our Air Assault Companies and personnel(incl me)were very busy during Tet 68.