Đà Nẵng Air Base: Air/Security Police, Cantonment area Huts, by: Don Poss. 1965-1966

Vietnam
1965-1966

© 1997 by, Don Poss, LM 37
23rd ABG/AP; 6252nd APS; 35th APS; 366th APS/SPS
APO for Đà Nàng Air Base was APO San Francisco, 96337
Telling it like it was!

P A G E S
Đà Nàng AB	Tent City	Huts	China Beach	Flight Lline / Posting
JBJ	DEROS		Sounds of DN	K-9 Growl Pad/Posting

Đà Nàng AB, 366th APS/SPS Tent City, phasing out with Hut construction in the wings! 1965-1966. Flares adrift through the night.

TENT CITY

1. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: CSC. 4th of July, the only day we were allowed to fly the US Flag. 1965.

2. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: USAF AP/SP Barracks and new Tent-City, 1965.
2. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: USAF AP/SP Barracks and new Tent-City, 1965.

3. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Tent City began parallel to the west cantonment road on the east, flight line road on the west, POL service road on the north, and closing on the south to a triangle shape with a diagonal road. My tent was row-1, number-2. 1965.
3. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Photo view south from shower building area. Tent City began parallel to the west cantonment road on
the east,flight line road on the west, POL service road on the north, and closing on the south to a triangle shape with a diagonal road.
My tent was row-1, number-2. 1965.

4. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: AP Cantonment, Tent City, Access Control post (right). Airman Wallis takes photo of our mamasan. If your still out there I would like to hear from you. 1965.
4. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: AP Cantonment, Tent City, Access Control post (right).
Airman Wallis takes photo of our mamasan. If your still out there I would like to hear from you. 1965.

5. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Mamasan closeup. 1965.

6. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: James McNall. Sign says "Air Police Personnel Only."
Photo view north. Jim McNall was one of the airman I went on R&R with to Tokyo Japan. 1965.
If you're still out there I would like to hear from you.

7. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Airman Maxie Pierce, teammate. We were going downtown Da Nana. 1965.
If you're still out there I would like to hear from you.

8. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Airman Maxie Pierce, teammate. 1965.

9. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Sweltering tents, too hot to sleep in by 0800. Some guys stretched out ontop of bunkers or found shade wherever. All agreed the heat radiated downward for a tent's top was oppressive and sucked the air out of your lungs. 1965.
9. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Sweltering tents, too hot to sleep in by 0800. Some guys stretched out on top of bunkers or found shade
wherever. All agreed the heat radiated downward for a tent's top was oppressive and sucked the air out of your lungs. 1965.

10. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: No shade outside and already way too hot to try and sleep in the tent. Maybe the chow hall or airman's club is cooler if their ceiling fans are working. 1965.
10. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: No shade outside and already way too hot to try and sleep in the tent.

11. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Daughtersan. 1965.
11. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Daughtersan. 1965.

12. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Mamasan's husband. ARVN officer. 1965.
12. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City:
Mamasan's husband. ARVN officer. 1965.

13. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Daughtersan. 1965.
13. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Daughtersan. 1965

14. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: The beginning of the Monsoon season changes everthing. Mostly like being in a sauna. The games change to, like touching the tent top right above where someone is sleeping (water drips through onto the victim: heh-heh). 1965.
14. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: The beginning of the Monsoon season changes everything. Mostly like being in a steaming sauna. The
pranks change, like touching the tent ceiling right above someone sleeping (water drips through onto the victim: heh-heh). 1965.

15. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Mamasan was always friendly and a good worker, with a sharp eye out for numb'a ten-thou GIs around her daughtersans. 1965.
15. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Mamasan was always friendly and a good worker,
with a sharp eye out for numb'a ten-thou GIs around her daughtersans. 1965.

16. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Vietnamese ARVN housing, across the street from our tents. 1965.
16. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Vietnamese ARVN housing, across the street from our tents. 1965.

17. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Vietnamese workers onbase clearing debris. These ladies could do back-breaking labor all day in the sun or rain. 1965.
17. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Vietnamese workers on base clearing debris.
These ladies could do back-breaking labor all day in the sun or rain. 1965.

18. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Vietnam, land of cement-telephone poles and wooden sidewalks. Vietnamese electricians working on the power lines. 1965.
18. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Vietnam, land of cement-telephone poles and wooden sidewalks.
Vietnamese electricians working on the power lines. 1965.

19. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Vietnamese lineman climbed the pole and forgot to tell anyone
he was afraid of heights. His cohorts jeered at him until he finally came down. 1965.

20. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: ARVN Uplifted Wings Memorial to Fallen Airmen across from Tent City. 1965.
20. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: ARVN Uplifted Wings Memorial to Fallen Airmen across from Tent City

21. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: James McNall takes a break from the tent's heat. From my tent compound.
We had watched construction of the ARVN Uplifted Wings Memorial for a few weeks, which was pretty
fast considering the bureaucracy necessary to accomplish anything. 1965.

For a major dedication ceremony, attendance was poor. True, there were SVN flags, banners, spotlights sweeping a starry night sky, bonfires, and civilians standing around... someone got a medal, and a Vietnamese civilian gave a speech which no one applauded. When it was over, the crowd faded quietly into the night. The memorial, Uplifted Wings, was touted as an eternal flame... but sometime during that dedication night, the flame went out... and... was never re-lit.

22. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: SVN dignitaries . 1965.

23. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: ARVN Uplifted Wings Memorial. 1965.

For a major dedication ceremony, attendance was poor. True, there were SVN flags, banners, spotlights sweeping a starry night sky, bonfires, and civilians standing around... someone got a medal, and a Vietnamese civilian gave a speech which no one applauded. When it was over, the crowd faded quietly into the night. The memorial, Uplifted Wings, was touted as an eternal flame... but sometime during that dedication night, the flame went out... and... was never re-lit.

24. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Gary Eberback waiting to see if we were going to the chow hall or the airman's club. 1965. After we had both DEROS'd, Gary came to visit me in California. I introduced him to his wife of 47 years now -- only time I ever played Cupid :)
24. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Gary Eberbach waiting to see if we were going to the chow hall or the Airman's Club. 1965.
After we had both DEROS'd,
Gary came to visit me in California. I introduced him to his wife of 47 years now --
only time I ever played Cupid :)... and yes, he's still talking to me!

25. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Looking west from the west cantonment's AP Access post, you could see Freedom Hill 327 in the near distance (about five miles). You would look across the VNAF A1E aircraft parking area. 1965.
25. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Looking west from the west cantonment's AP Access post, you could see Freedom Hill 327
in the near distance (about five miles). You would look across the VNAF A1E aircraft parking area. 1965.

26. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: Looking west from Tent City's cantonment area, you could see a growing aircraft boneyard pile of rubble, along with part of a C-130 destroyed and now canabilized from the 1 July 1965 sapper attacked that Sgt Terance Jensen was KIA in. 1965.
26. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: Looking west from Tent City's cantonment area, you could see a growing aircraft bone yard pile of rubble,
along with part of a C-130 destroyed and now cannibalized from the 1 July 1965 sapper attacked that Sgt Terance Jensen was KIA in. 1965

27. Đà Nẵng AB, Tent City: An early graphic art from an old slide photo portraying the Monsoon Rains at Đà Nẵng AB. 1965.
27. Đà Nàng AB, Tent City: An early graphic art from an old slide photo portraying the Monsoon Rains at Đà Nàng AB. 1965.