Marble Mountain 1968

The only access to the gun was by ropes.

Marble mountain 1968.

In february 1968 eight marines volunteered for a suicide mission. Unbeknownst to sf personnel at fob 4 shortly after tet in 1968 the nva built a sand table of fob 4 in the marble mountain caves to organize the 23 august attack. After this 30 minute rampage the viet cong withdrew leaving behind 17 dead and 4 wounded. Five elements mountains is a cluster of five marble and limestone hills located in ngũ hành sơn district south of da nang city in vietnam the five mountains are named after the five elements.

This photo is of a 106 recoilless rifle mounted ontop of what the marines called crow s nest mountain one of the five mountain of marble mountain. The arvn troops are celebrating the capture of an nlf vc flag. Marble mountain was on the south side of fob 4. Bill davis ordered charlie and delta companies of the 1st battalion 7th marine regiment to get off hills 270 and 310 and.

Marble mountain air facility mmaf also known as da nang east airfield marble mountain army airfield and nuoc man airfield was an aviation facility used primarily by the united states marine corps during the vietnam war it was a helicopter facility that was constructed in august 1965 and served as home to marine aircraft group 16 mag 16 the 5th special forces group and an assortment of. Attack on marble mountain some 90 viet cong sappers infiltrated this huge marine corps airfield and destroyed 19 helicopters and damaged 35 11 of them severely. This photo was taken in. After 32 casualties during the first 30 hours of operation pursuit initiated in mid february 1968 by the 1st marine division to search for enemy rocket caches in the mountains west of da nang lt.

Another photo of the 3rd amtrack area at marble mountain in 1968. There was a road that ran between crow s nest and marble mountain from danang through the mountain and about eight miles down to 3rd battalion 1st marine. Discover and save your own pins on pinterest. Marble mountain was one of five mountains located south of da nang that stretched from the coast inland or westward.

Sep 4 2015 this pin was discovered by the folly beach company. All of these mountains had cave entrances and numerous tunnels. See more ideas about vietnam war vietnam war.