US Airbase DaNang during Vietnam War

klnowak said:
Just recived Henriks very well done model of the german hospital ship MS Helgoland from his offer and put it to the scenery at the historic place where it has been stationed during 4 years in vietnam war. This model is used as ai traffic and sometimes it leaves his place at pier and turned to the sea outside of vietnam waters to be resuplied by another german ship (like it is done in real during her staying in Da Nang). First shots from this one in the upcoming scenery. The MS Helgoland at her place in Da Nang right beside the land based hospital station.
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Next pier beside the MS Helgoland
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Hi Klaus, Great to see her in the right place :D She still sails. Today she is a cruise ship in the Galapagos Islands. A peaceful otium for a beautiful ship with more than 50 years of history. She will be include with her present layout and paint in the upcoming Global AI Ship Traffic V2 including her routes in the Galapagos - and a classic route from when she sailed from Hamburg to Helgoland and in the Baltic Sea.
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The last pictures before upload.....

Yankey Station carrier group

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US Airbase DaNang on ground....

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Great piece of work, that is something I did not follow up on and shown in this scenery just how vast DaNang Airbase really was , many photos here on hardstands and fleeting glimpse, so it puts a good perspective on how compact and a busy place it was ... Crikey I was thinking of a full on multiplay , really make it busy.
Superb piece of work Klaus :encouragement:
 
Was at Danang from Feb 67 to 1st of Aug 67 with VMFA - 235 " Death Angels " , we had the F-8U Crusaders . We occupied the Northwest corner of the airbase . In the six months I was there I saw six different airplane crashes . The worst being an A-6 Intruder taking off 35L in very heavy fog and struck a C-141 as it was crossing 35L on a taxiway . I believe I read it was a major air traffic control screw up . If I can get a decent scan out of my squadron cruise book it has a pic of the huge fire ball from the C-141 . Danang was a favorite target for the VC and their 122(??)rockets except on one particular night (I also witnessed this)as I was on the far sw corner of the tarmac at 35L where we had an area to de-arm and arm AC . We started getting hit by rockets and I could see an AC on approach on 17L and it happened to be an AC-47 "Puff" and needless to say he did a very quick T & G because he apparently saw the rocket flashes when the VC were firing them and a few short minutes latter you heard the familiar buzz saw sound from the mini guns .No more rockets.I hope the pilot and crew got a metal because I'm sure they saved a lot of lives . . The VC gun crew on the other hand , probably not much left .

Rich
 
Crusader said:
Was at Danang from Feb 67 to 1st of Aug 67 with VMFA - 235 " Death Angels " , we had the F-8U Crusaders . We occupied the Northwest corner of the airbase . In the six months I was there I saw six different airplane crashes . The worst being an A-6 Intruder taking off 35L in very heavy fog and struck a C-141 as it was crossing 35L on a taxiway . I believe I read it was a major air traffic control screw up . If I can get a decent scan out of my squadron cruise book it has a pic of the huge fire ball from the C-141 .
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Rich I do have a good description and the whys and how that happen with photo's I'll dig that for you.
 
Is it possible to have the various squadrons stationed at Da Nang park in their area of the flight line? (i.e. the USAF park in the NE corner and the USMC in the NW corner, etc...).
If so, what would be the best way to accomplish this?
 
Ian Warren said:
Rich I do have a good description and the whys and how that happen with photo's I'll dig that for you.
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Thanks Ian , I remember it was a HUGE fireball !

Appreciate it , even if it was foggy and it was way back in 1967 , as big a tail as the 141 had on it I don't know how that should have happened .

Rich
 
Wow Ian , quite an article . I had my 35 R and left turned around . Very detailed . Did not realize it was a Vietnamese controller involved .

Thanks for posting . That was almost 50 years ago . Brought back some memories .

Rich
 
It is a bit sad really with loosing aircraft and crews that way, Da Nang looking at how Vast Klaus showed in his model , you could it would a base that was so busy add the weapons to mix with the time tables, very surprised anyone one survived that at all, the A-6 crew were very Very lucky!
 
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