Vietnam
Towers and Bunkers
Biên Hòa AB
Air Police / Security Police Squadrons
34th ABG Air Police Squadron, Assigned Biên Hòa AB, c.1964-1965
3rd Security Police Squadron, Assigned Biên Hòa AB, 8 Nov 1965-15 Mar 1971
6251st SPS Assigned Biên Hòa AB, 8 Jul 1965
(attached to 3d TFW, 21 Nov 1965–8 Mar 1966)
c. 1972, until Biên Hòa closed in 1972 or early 73
© 2009, by VSPA

1. USAF: Air Force Art Collection. Tower, Bunker, Jeep, APC.

2. Biên Hòa AB, Bunker Hill-10. 1968. I took the photo just after Tet 1968.
Photo by Howard Yates, BH, 3rd SPS, AUG, 1967-1968.

3. Biên Hòa AB, Bunker Hill-10.
Photo by Mike Kennedy, LM 35, BH, 3rd SPS. 1969-1970.

4. Biên Hòa AB, Bunker Hill-10. Photo by Dunham.

5. Biên Hòa AB, Bunker Hill-10Perimeter Tower. 1968.
Photo by unknown.

6. Biên Hòa AB, Bunker Hill-10. French Bunker.
Photo by unknown.

7. Biên Hòa Air Base:
1) Battle for Bunker Hill-10 , by Richard Lemley;
2) Battle for Bunker Hill-10, by John Frisbee, USAF Magazine.

8. Biên Hòa AB, Bunker-17. Tower (center-left) 1966-1967.
Photo by Ernest Govea, BH, 3rd SPS, 1966-1967.

11. Biên Hòa AB, Perimeter Tower.
Photo by unknown.

12. Biên Hòa AB, Bunker-1, with a shack next to it, looks like it may be ARVN or VNAF security.
Photo by Bob Vitray, LM 590, BH, 3rd SPS, 1967-1969.

13. Biên Hòa AB, West Tower. Note the F-100 (extreme left-center), apparently being worked on.
Bunker is on the West end of the runway and manned by USAF personnel. I think one of the armored cars hung out in this vicinity during alerts.
Photo by Bob Vitray, LM 590, BH, 3rd SPS, 1967-1969.

14. Biên Hòa AB, French Bunker-1 is a shot of the bunker across from the Red Horse cantonement area
on the Southeast side of the base. We used it for late night hootenannies of beer, cigarettes and guitars.
It was located between our barracks and the III corps Special Forces HQ.
Photo by Bob Vitray, LM 590, BH, 3rd SPS, 1967-1969.

15. Biên Hòa AB, Bunker. The roofed sandbag bunker next to a large sandpile is also an American emplacement.
Photo by Bob Vitray, LM 590, BH, 3rd SPS, 1967-1969.

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