#1967HoiAnRiverJob00 picture shows the Navy LCM-8 Landing craft on the Hoi An River or Song Thu Bon River we often had to repair under water. We are on the North Bank of the river.
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I served almost 3 years in Da Nang I Corps, and one of those years as a diver on the Da Nang Diving Barge. For a few month in 1967, about every two weeks we drove by truck to this Hoi An River and replaced either the screws, shafts or bearings of the Navy LCM-8; the river was shallow and these items wore out or got damaged. On the map I provided, the river is named Song Thu Bon but it flows into the South China Sea at the famous Viet Namese Town of Hoi An, I prefer to use that name. At that time the USMC run the South Viet Nam tactical zone I Corps, but apparently were reinforced with a Navy LCM-8 landing craft to help crossing this river at this location.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob00 picture shows the Navy LCM-8 Landing craft on the Hoi An River or Song Thu Bon River we often had to repair under water. We are on the North Bank of the river.
#1967HoiAnRiverJob00a picture is a Google map of the greater Da Nang and Hoi An area and shows how we traveled to the Hoi An River.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob00b picture is part of a contour map with part of the Viet Nam I Corps area and shows how we traveled to the Hoi An River.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob01 picture shows the Navy LCM-8 Landing craft on the Hoi An River or Song Thu Bon River we often had to repair under water. We are on the North Bank of the river.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob02, #03, #04 and #05 pictures show the Navy LCM-8, crew and the boat in action ferrying UCMC Marines and their equipment over the Hoi An River or Song Thu Bon River. At that time the USMC run the South Viet Nam tactical zone I Corps, but apparently were reinforced with a Navy LCM-8 landing craft to help crossing this river at this location.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob06 and #07 pictures show the USMC way of transporting equipment over the Hoi An River or Song Thu Bon River. At that time the USMC run the South Viet Nam tactical zone I Corps.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob08 picture shows that the Navy Seabees arrived and are beginning to build a bridge across the Hoi An River or Song Thu Bon River. At that time the USMC run the South Viet Nam tactical zone I Corps.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob09 & #10 pictures show some of the guard detail guarding this Hoi An River or Song Thu Bon River Crossing. At that time the USMC run the South Viet Nam tactical zone I Corps.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob11 picture shows my buddy BM2 Bamberger and I getting ready to jump in and replace some part of this LCM-8 under water on the Hoi An River or Song Thu Bon River. We were both 2nd Class Navy Divers, we cooked our own chow on the Diving Barge. We both loved stuffed cabbage and he claimed it was Polish food and I claimed it was German food, we never settled that argument. Would love to talk to my buddy again, I lost track of him.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob12 picture shows my buddy BM2 Fitzgerald, also a 2nd Class Navy Diver then. We both met again in Pearl Harbor and both retired there. We both joined the Navy on the 14th July 1960 but he was 2 boot camp companies behind me. He had come from Texas by train but I arrived by plane from Salt Lake. When I learned he was 2 companies behind me I called him “Boot Camp” ever since.
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#1967HoiAnRiverJob13, #14, #15 & #16 pictures is yours truly, Karl-Wilhelm Welteke, at the Hoi An River or Song Thu Bon River Crossing. At that time the USMC run the South Viet Nam tactical zone I Corps. I don’t remember why I chose to wear dungarees that day, I don’t remember. Maybe I wanted to show the commies that the Navy was here also! In Viet Nam we always (almost always) wore greens. I quitt smoking in 1999.
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