Media Category: Viet Nam War #1

About the war for freedom for the Viet Nam people from dictatorship of communism.

16 Diving in the Tropics

16 Diving in the Tropics

This is a diving introduction dive for a diving school student candidate and it is conducted on the front of the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966. Left is John T Brady and right is Jim Starcher.

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15 Diving in the Tropics

15 Diving in the Tropics

We are doing a screw clearing job on an LCU Landing Craft Utility in the Danang River in 1966/67.

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14 Diving in the Tropics

14 Diving in the Tropics

This was our most frequent activity, clearing fouled screws on all kind of ships or crafts; on smaller landing boats and crafts we changed shafts, screws and bearings under water. In I-Corps there many boats and landing craft supplying the Marines all over the I-Corps. When I reported there, the personal Officer looked at my […]

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13 Diving in the Tropics

13 Diving in the Tropics

This is another typical diving job in Danang 1966/67 and all over I-Corps. The vessel in back is an APL a berthing barge, there 3 in Danang at that time. We drew our chow rations from these crafts.

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12 Diving in the Tropics

12 Diving in the Tropics

Our Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge is moored over the Red Beach Fuel line and we are repairing it. This is in the Danang Bay, we did fuel line repair jobs up and down the I Corps beaches from Chu Lai to the DMZ.

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11 Diving in the Tropics

11 Diving in the Tropics

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

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10 Diving in the Tropics

10 Diving in the Tropics

BM2 DV2 Fitzgerald on the bridge of the Naval Support Activity Danang Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966.

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09 Diving in the Tropics

09 Diving in the Tropics

John T Brady and I are getting ready for supper on the Danang Naval Support Activity Diving Barge at Danang Bay in 1966.

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Zg082

Zg082

-10. July 1973, in Saigon on leave, landing at the airport. We, the US Military, already had left. I was there to help with the fiancé visa for my bride.

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Zg081

Zg081

-09. Saigon 1967.The German hospital ship started out in Saigon and moved to Da Nang in 1968. I had entered the USA only in 1959 and so I naturally had to have a look at the German contribution to the war. Later I helped salvaging a WWII wrecked ship in Da Nang for the Helgoland […]

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