Media Category: Viet Nam

Images from my service or visits in or to Viet Nam. I may use images from other sources also.

08 Diving in the Tropics

08 Diving in the Tropics

Our Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge was equipped with two large amphibious type outboard engines, in the beginning we did not have the controls rigged on the bridge yet. That was tricky sometime.

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07 Diving in the Tropics

07 Diving in the Tropics

This is on the front of the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966 at Camp Tien Sha Boat Ramp. Left are the NSA Danang Diving Officer and Lighterage Officer, right is BM2 DV2 Fitzgerald,

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06 Diving in the Tropics

06 Diving in the Tropics

Here are three hefty diving sailors on the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966. In the middle is John T. Brady.

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05 Diving in the Tropics

05 Diving in the Tropics

We are doing our deck work on the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966.

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04 Diving in the Tropics

04 Diving in the Tropics

Once upon the time we were lean, it is me taking a shower. Our diving barge was rigged on an amphibious causeway section. One of the causeway tank sections was our water supply under air pressure.

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03 Diving in the Tropics

03 Diving in the Tropics

This was my bunk on the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966/67 for about 13 month.

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02 Diving in the Tropics

02 Diving in the Tropics

Our Diving Officer Lt. Doege is monkeying around. Our Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge is alongside the dry-dock in Danang Bay in 1966. If you look close, my name says Fritz, that is what my shipmates called me my first 7 years in the Navy, a BM2 on my first ship who had come […]

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01 Diving in the Tropics

01 Diving in the Tropics

Our Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Down Town Danang doing a diving job in 1966.

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28 Diving in the Tropics

28 Diving in the Tropics

The German Hospital Ship Arrived in Danang in 1968, an exciting day for me, since only 8 years ago I arrived in the USA from Germany. Later I made friends with some of the crew and they shared their German beer.

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27 Diving in the Tropics

27 Diving in the Tropics

This one was our most interesting job; this is a Navy manned LCM-8 the Marines required for ferry service over the Thu Bon River. This crossing was about 32 Km south of the Danang Air Base and about 23 km upriver for the famous South Viet Nam Town Hoi An. We went there about every […]

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