BEFORE WE DEPART.........
For my entire year I lived in an old French compound
When the 2nd ARVN "went to war," Joe Pakin (my radio operator) and I would
tag along to either......Mo Duc, Buda Mountain, or "The Cemetery"
The local O'Club served as our Command and control center
To get to the airfield ......................I would have to drive thru the streets of Quang Naghi
(The fellow who gave the order to fire said " The caribou was shot down by the 2nd11th artillery c btry. They were on an operation on a jungle mountain top for about three week when they where moved in to support the special forces operation that was starting. It was a 155mm battalion and was a bastard unit (leg), they were at the time assigned to the Americal division. There was a contact mission going on, and there was no cease fire received or ever given. They were firing battery adjust when the, I believe, the no.2 gun fired on command there was a secondary boom and the tail section as show was off the body. As i looked out of the bunker the plane first rose noise first flipped over like it was making a loop but as the photo shows it crashed noise first. All were lost. I was the one who gave the command for the battery to fire.")
To join me on this mission click on the map below
I was fortunate enough to have a
private room and maid service