Marble Mountain to Monkey Mountain and around Danang Vietnam (Bert Kinyon)
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2018
- 4 Marines who served with the 1st Marine Air Wing in Danang Vietnam in 1968 and 1969 fly back for a one week tour of the Danang area in March of 2015. Mike (Rocketman) Dolan, Ed (Smittay)Schmidt, James (Rauman) Anderson and Albert (Bert) Kinyon.
Beautiful memories.
I enjoyed this a lot,as I was stationed in the DaNang area,66 to 67.many memories, mostly good.
I was there 1969, NMCB 4 (Seabees) very nice video. It is not at all how I remember it. Our main camp, Camp Adnir was directly across from MAG 16. I remember jumping for cover during mortar attacks. I think they hit us when they wanted to hit MAG 16. I was a Heavy Equipment Operator ( now I'm just Heavy :) & assisted on several projects in MAG 16. Remember the night we had to take cover 3 times in one night. I could write so much more, but I'll stop boring all my brothers, Welcome Home.
My brother was there in 68 and 69. I’m currently building a life like diorama of the Marine base just below Marble Mountain. He was Amphibious 3rd Marine division thank God he is still living and I love my brother. His name is Michael Stuart, otherwise known as….. Pismo.
Corpsman with E2/27th Marines and then D & BAS 1/1 Feb.'68 'til may '69 . Used to go into Danang to get medical supplies at 1st. Med. and hit the PX for liquor. We were based at LZ 412 about 14 Km SSW of Danang. Sure didn't look like that when I was there. Got Med-evaced home to the world from the air base there. Thanks for the tour.
Boy it all brings a lot of memories but it looks completely different. I was on Monkey Mt. is 1967, stationed at the TV (AFVN Channel 11) station. Enjoyed this clip a lot, thanks.
Great thanks I drove from Camp Tien Sha to top of Monkey Mtn to Nav communication station on top every watch. wonderful video thanks
Do you remember an Em club up there with windows looking out over the ocean?
I was there in71 11th combat aviation glad I didn't have to pay for the helicopter we didn't bring back to the base (it had some small holes burn marks and rotors that didn't work anymore) we landed a bit harder than recommended!
I was stationed on Monkey Mountain during the war in 1967
Do you remember a very nice Enlisted mens club up there?
Awesome video. Thank you for everything.
Thanks for the excellent tour some places almost look familiar. Like specially when you flew over them in the chopper
Ima a weapons fmechanic on the F4 during Tet in68 ..480tac fighter squadron 366 combat support group. Remember Monkey Mountain. Ammo Dump exploding clear from DaNang Air Base . SGT Goodman
I had a lot of close calls from shrapnel and concussions from that one.... Quite the experience!! Had a 5# chunk of steel land real close to me!
366 SPS OCT 68 Oct 69 We lost a guy at China beach. Drowned I never swam in the ocean before and I almost drowned. Undertow was BAD. There was a jet stuck in the side of Monkey Mountain. I spent 12 months there and only got to go downtown once. SUCKS
I just found this video today, thank you so much for posting it! I was in Danang in the Air Force, at the AB from Jan '68 to Jan '70. Got there just in time for the TET offensive,lol! I so vividly remember when the marine ammo dump got hit and all the phosphorous flares went up, talk about lighting up the sky! I especially enjoyed your China Beach scenes, my buddies and I would go there often, man was that sand HOT!!! I have slides of the USO that was there, wish I could post them here! And your drive up Monkey Mountain brought back such memories to me! We had a special assignment up on the top for a week or so, drove up that road every morning and back down to the barracks that evening. I swear I still remember going around those curves overlooking the harbor! Back then there was an army (maybe marines) radar station at the very top, our place of operations was right beside it. Actually, maybe I will make a video of my slides from back then and post them here in a comment, if you wouldn't mind? Thanks again for this post!
Please do!!!
Thanks for showing. I was an AB on Hospitalship HELGOLAND in 1971
Great video thanks! My wife and I moved from Washington state to Hoi an Vietnam about a half hour south of Da nang and it's been a very wonderful experience! The people are the best and the country is so beautiful we don't want to live anywhere else in the world!
Alot of the sites you filmed are very familiar to us.
I hope you had a wonderful time here in this great country!
ATB Sam Adler from Hoi an,Vietnam
is it bad that i really want to live there? my father was there in 1966-67 with the navy. i wish i could at least go and walk the same ground he walked. lost him in 2009.
You can. The folks there are very friendly and helpful.
Thank you brothers. Another world in another time.
Amazing what changes can happen in 50 year! Flew over Money Mountain a lot in 1970.
I was in MCB 121 Navy Seabees 1969 and actually helped build the last set of "reventments" seen here. They are actually called "wonder arches which were galvanized steel covered in concrete.
Seabees Can Do! EOH, MCB 6, MCB 133, ACB 2, RMCB 23. 65-80, RVN 66-68.
Well Done !!! Spent one day at the airport in Danang waiting for a USAF KC 135 to transport me back to CONUS in Oct. 1965. Arrived on a C 130 from VMGR 152 from Chu Lai where we were stationed.
My Btn was between Navy hospital and Army junkyard, across from Marine Air Wing. 1st Eng Btn.
I was with the first marine division, first engineer battalion our headquarters was near marble mountain, I was medvac out to guam ..to all of the marines who served there OoHARH...
MARBLE MOUNTAIN IS IN EAST DANANG MY FIRST ASSIGNMENT IN VIETNAM JUST. A COUPLE OF MILES FROM US NAVY HOSPITAL DURING THE VIETNAM WAR. WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO DRIVE NEAR THIS MOUNTAIN BECAUSE OF LAND MINES.
Interesting video brought back a lot of memories I was there in 1969 July I was 18 years old 2nd battalion 1st Marines 1st Marine division Fox 2 1 injured in a booby trap explosion December floomed in Japan for 2 weeks and national naval medical center Bethesda Maryland I enlisted when I was 18 years old landed in Vietnam July 13th turned 19 on July 29th beautiful country back then even more beautiful now
A friend I talk to often at the local VFW club was with the Army Engineers when they made the road up Monkey Mountain.Said they did a lot of work for the Marines in I Corps and on Route 9 during his tour '65-67 or '66-68, I can't remember which.
Thank you guys for the video. But thank you even more for your service. I will soon be visiting Vietnam to see your history.
Take care and God bless.
From a recently retired Army grunt.
Split screen with old & new would be nice.
Great video, i was there january 2009 its excactly the same
Thanks so much for this video, guys. I served with the USAF 6924th Security Squadron Detachment One, Monkey Mountain, 1969-1970. This brings back a ton of memories.
Were you there when they were building the power distribution rack? I supervised the construction of that unit. I was stationed at the air base from July 70 to May 71 in the Metal Shop of the 366th Civil Engineers.
@@williamodell2872 No, William, I was not at Monkey Mountain after the spring of 1970.
I was at Da Nang in the 6924th from Jan '68 to Jan '70. When you say Monkey Mountain detachment, are you talking about our little "experiment" we conducted there for a week or so? I was part of that group, went up the mountain every morning, did our thing, then came back that evening. Yes, watching this video brings back so many memories of our drive up there, those winding roads overlooking the bay off in the distance!
Nice,thank you!
The road you are on never existed in 1969 all areas were accessed by highway one to the north.
I remember you and helped build those "temporary" arches. We also built our hooches at Camp Adenir.
This is my 1st movie from our trip. I just so happens the files I had in front of me were from day 3. It takes a lot of work to put these things together but I'm working on the other movies. There eventually may be 3 or 4 more. The next one I'm working on is our trip to Chu Lai.
I was in the Air Force at Da Nang from Jan '68 to Jan '70. Took a lot of photos, but I sure wish I had video capability then! I guess I never thought of 8mm movies, all I knew at the time was photography! I am working on putting photos of my time there into a video to put on UA-cam, just posted this one of aircraft on the flight line back then. Watch my YT channel for upcoming posts! ! ua-cam.com/video/ox20yqT01Ug/v-deo.html
China Beach home of the black cats at least for me 67 + 8
just got UA-camd here...2021...my Father was air rescue "CS Pedro" he said Monkey Mt was "bandit territory"
We called it Indian Territory.
@@jamesalexander3530 you rock
@@jamesalexander3530 he was also won the Chaney Award for rescues during the Vajont Dam Disaster
@@jamesalexander3530 Robert St Clair Henderson
My buddy and I went up to a club on top of Monkey Mt. We didn't realize it was "bandit territory" till we headed down the hill drunk and started taking fire.... got in a fire fight. Not sure how we did but we made it....
Thanks for the video.
I was at Monkey Mountain, I think, in 1969. I remember Hill 190 and Nam-O and Hai Van pass better and the last duty station was in a village near Nam-O with a Marine C.U.P.P. Unit and a platoon of South Vietnamese Regional Forces.
In 2019, in March I went back there, on a visa run from Thailand, and saw Hai Van Pass again and toured to Monkey Mountain with two sisters who took time to go around with me since they were free because it was the off-season.
I saw in Marble Mountain, looking up the holes in the roof of the mountain and - they told me - the tunnels inside where the Viet Cong used to hide and shoot up at American helicopters.
I also had people tell me - in 2019 - that they knew the communists lied to them in the re-education camps and that we, the Americans, were good and the communists were savages.
They did not say these things very loudly because they still are afraid of the consequences of complaining in a communist country. But they spoke to me candidly because I could still remember some of the language from back then.
No one in America believed what I tried to tell them about Vietnam in the 1970's.
And no one now believes that we were there to protect the Vietnamese from a communist takeover.
But maybe it is the place for a homeless Vietnam veteran, living on a Disability allowance to spent the final days.
The peak of Marble Mountain was always occupied by Marines with 106s, mortars, etc, and later US soldiers moved nearby. I find it hard to believe Charley taking pot shots of our choppers with so many US troops there. Then the choppers from nearby MAG 16 rarely flew high over Marble no less low or they'd run into the tallest peaks.
My Seabee base was s mile or two, then a US Special Forces base, a Marine tank battalion, a naval hospital and on. Inside Marble was hollow where some Buddhist monks lived and a colossal statue of Buddha overlooking a huge cave topped with a hole at the top where one could see the sky above.
USN MCB 6 and MCB 133, nam, 66 - 68.
Do you remember a big stone Enlisted Mens club up there?
THERE IS ALOT GOING ON IN VIETNAM TODAY BETTER THAN HAWAII 🤣👍
MONKEY MOUNTAIN IS A RESTRICTED AREA DURING THE VIETNAM WAR, THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE THEY GOT THE MISSILES.
You're thinking of Monkey Mountain.
Now it's a great view and a great place to visit.. you should go.
My recollection from 66 to 68 Monkey's top held a secret radar station. I never saw missiles there despite driving to the top and back. Maybe they were facing the China sea on the other side of the mountain?
This is all frickin' surreal. Let me show you my home movies of our "vacation" in Vietnam...where I went to kill...or be killed. Let's go back to "memory lane" of where we went to war illegally and were humiliated in defeat. Let's economically support the Communist system that we said was evil and fought against. Our movie wouldn't be complete without us passing out candy to the "natives" just like the GIs gave out candy bars in WW2 Lmao. So many of you Vietnam vets live on your own planet. You humiliate yourselves for doing this sh*t. You sure as he$$ have nothing to say to me as a Vietnam Draft resistor.
Thank you Veterans! All of you.
@@jamesalexander3530 I guess I'm supposed to laugh, but I want to cry in disbelief in the ignorance of your comment. Just for your education, which I can tell is minimal....I never supported Jane Fonda and her antics in Vietnam. But neither did I support the asshole's who allowed their Government to send them to potentially kill and be killed where they did not belong in the first place.
I kept it simple for you.