Korat RTAFB, Security Police Command & Security Contol HQ.
Đông Hà Air Field AB, Berm on the Eastside of the Compound. Bunkers waiting for action.
One of the TAC Radar units at Đông Hà Air Field. Also, across the road from
us was a SAC radar unit.
I understood it helped coordinate B-52
strikes. Shortly before I left Đông Hà Air Field it took a direct hit
from
artillery and all the radar trucks were destroyed. Fortunately, no
one was injured. I was on
post that night guarding the SAC unit.
We all made it safely into a bunker.
A quantset hut took a direct hit from a 140mm rocket. One AF personnel
was killed, A1C Wolfgang Haegele, I believe he was a radar tech.
A rocket hit under a deuce and 1/2. That's me in the hole.
140mm rocket that was captured by a Marine Recon patrol
shortly after the attack. Displayed in our personell office.
An Army unit brought in a twin 40 anti-aircraft gun that was
brought in to protect our eastern berm line after we received
several mortar attacks.
I always wondered what happened to Korat RTAFB. I left the base in July of 1967.
