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Made initial comment in Dec. 2007.
AF SGT at Cam Ranh Bay 7-67thru7-68 in 12th CES. Mainly took care of airfield lighting and back-up Gen. pwr along with my workpartner and friend, SGT Bud Parker. During the TET Offensive One night in March '68 we sustained a severe morter and rocket attack. There were 10' of 1000's of gallons of Jet fuel in 1000 gal. bladders attached to pallets for quick unload from planes at base camps also many 55 gal drums of gas and other fuels. These all surrounded on two sides the metal bldg that was our Airfield lighting vault. When the junk started coming in Bud and I attempted to contact the Control Tower by radio (to no avail) because there was a fully loaded Pan Am 707 at the South end of the RR headed for home or R &R, and, they were sitting ducks, all lit up. Bud and acted fast and decisively; we went down the rows of lighting regulators turning them all to the off position, We observed the departing plane kill all his lights and he rolled out with NO visible light, He shortened his normal rollout to the point he was extremely nose-high and a 100+ ft above the rr when a rocket took a hole about 5' in dia, out of the middle of the RR. We were never recognized by anyone as having saved a disaster and many lives, not to mention our own . We took many slides of that evening and it;s aftermath. There is SURELY Someone who remembers this ocurranceand as a matter of 167+ owe their life to this action. Please make contact if you have memory, pictures ect of the event. I have dozens of slides for proofs as well as visiual enjoymet, Help us find some subtantiatian for this attack. Thanks, WWMosier Also missing some 'promised' metal/ribbons
AF SGT at Cam Ranh Bay 7-67thru7-68 in 12th CES. Mainly took care of airfield lighting and back-up Gen. pwr along with my workpartner and friend, SGT Bud Parker. During the TET Offensive One night in March '68 we sustained a severe morter and rocket attack. There were 10' of 1000's of gallons of Jet fuel in 1000 gal. bladders attached to pallets for quick unload from planes at base camps also many 55 gal drums of gas and other fuels. These all surrounded on two sides the metal bldg that was our Airfield lighting vault. When the junk started coming in Bud and I attempted to contact the Control Tower by radio (to no avail) because there was a fully loaded Pan Am 707 at the South end of the RR headed for home or R &R, and, they were sitting ducks, all lit up. Bud and acted fast and decisively; we went down the rows of lighting regulators turning them all to the off position, We observed the departing plane kill all his lights and he rolled out with NO visible light, He shortened his normal rollout to the point he was extremely nose-high and a 100+ ft above the rr when a rocket took a hole about 5' in dia, out of the middle of the RR. We were never recognized by anyone as having saved a disaster and many lives, not to mention our own . We took many slides of that evening and it;s aftermath. There is SURELY Someone who remembers this ocurranceand as a matter of 167+ owe their life to this action. Please make contact if you have memory, pictures ect of the event. I have dozens of slides for proofs as well as visiual enjoymet, Help us find some subtantiatian for this attack. Thanks, WWMosier Also missing some 'promised' metal/ribbons