Article about the Việt Cộng shelling of Biên Hòa Air Base

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Article about the Việt Cộng shelling of Biên Hòa Air Base
Description
Original title: "captain", Keever's title: ""I'm going to Sleep with My Hardhat on My Toes Tonight", says U.S. Captain After Communist Mortar Attack", About the Việt Cộng shelling of Biên Hòa Air Base, published by the New York Herald Tribune
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01190 prorosenfold captain one bien hoa paron friendship unparen
souvietnam dash aye bbb57 jetfighter pilot formerly based in ouffolk
county new air nowyork airbase comma omptain john joy johnson said
quote eyom going to sleep with my hart hardhat on my toos tonight unquote
following early morning viet cong communist mortar shellingve
vietnamone dash american airforce baco destroying or damaging moren
squadrove jetfighters etother aircraft comme killing four americans otimu
otwounding thirtyone others sin morodcepe
mots ajoutoes
no s rayons
beverly doepe oarte no, 44
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01200 m prorocenfeld captain two
ayo quote we all fool very
fortunate it no notrptnot worse than it was ona u omaunquote johnson
greyhaired captain explained stopquote we just hope they donot come
again tonicht stopquote oyun going to sleep with my hardhat paren steelhelmet
unparen on my toes tonight no eyo know where it is in onse they attack
again stopunquote moredeope
mote ajoutons
mote rayos
beverly deepe on rto no. 44
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01200 prorosonfold captain three Johnson comma who was based in
stationod etlived on suffull f suffolk county airbase ninetoon alty
sixty to sixtytwo comma look at hoapevo crispy ashes were where
american fightorjots jet fighterbombers of his eighth tactical bomb
squadron attached to second airdivision saigon stoppara
squadron commander major hhh fff oneils of knoxville tennessee
said quote eye feel like ouster stop eye donot have much command
stogqunoto ntopunquote on five of his aircraft were listed as destroyed
bumping eight suffered major damage otseven others minor
damage atop conton bbb57 oanberras when now cost one etquarter
million dollars each danh hence costvo attack at least six million dollars
stop costvo estimated thirty roundeve mondido mortar ammunition used
by vietcong was totalve onehundred fourteen dollars stoppara "noredoope
mote ajoutons
mote reyest
boverly a doape ca rte no. 44
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01230 prozosenfeld quote eye felt sooner or later this would come
etsure muff it has cmnunquoto johnson said wiping owoaty hands on
blue flightsuit atop quote stopquote tyev theyve been mortoring villages
noar hero otrovo been fired on in the traffic pattern as mp land at the
field stopunquoto para
said viotoong guerrilles fired at him as he first landed
johnson wo
cesnice vietnammiso august fifth
as aizdofonso reserve no unistatos bombed novietnam during tonkingulf
crisis
mad stoppera
quote last night eyo had just gotten my bed warn when the
first burst hit billeting area otscomthin otsomething started to burn stop
there was alotve smoke etage could toll fange shelling was progressing
oast down rumway otthen there was more fue fire from fuol in area stoppara
requote noxt burst got olocor oftemind
meteye
know two in on bace propor stop mostve fellas wore in quartors stop
my navigator oy oteye started da towards runway etme get aye burstvo
traco s tracers otro oremled up ditch for fifty yards otacross soccer
field to the line paren where bbb57 based unparen a morodcepe
beverly doope carte no. 44
mots ajoutes!
mote rayost
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tribune newyork
01231 prorosenfeld
captain five during most intense partve firing
when a
Persere bombers were burning fiercely
old supply sergeant came outoame yelling sedco semicolon theyve just shot
at me stop wheres the light switch somico semiquote stop during this
time our skyra id skyraiders paren aaalllhhh world war two fighters unparen
took off otan hour later were dropping bombs right northve the runway stop
stopunquotepara
aye young captain near him said quote we had artificial
moonlight all night stop they were dropping flares mix in the rain etthe
fog stop otwhen the hueys paren armed hulb helicopters unparen it was
just like dumping out bucketve coals with sparks fissing stopunquote
flying
several hundred yards down from the runway were the bu
x long wooden @bte hutsugusteve unistates army 118th aviation
company which sustained mostve a thirtyone wounded etall fourve dead
stoppara
the firstve seven huts to be hit was marked quote billet ten unquote
stop do rain poured through/a demolished tile roof onto stackve
etton tall
mattresses all wooden closets marked with namesve private first-class
pppfffcccs dash mostly mostve them cooks in nextdoor messhall stoppara
floorve muddy room lay stackve soggy books among thom quote gunsve august
unquote stop another entitl entitled/s quote promise at dawn unquote moredeepe
mots ajoutess
mots rayes 2
beverly deepe carte no. 44
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01233 proroconfeld captain six quote eye ranoutve billets just an
first mortar hit onnunquote young private said in passing stopquote my
five friends behind me novor come out u onditdeepe
mote rayos*
note 2 ajoutens
boverly docpo oarte no. 44
Date
1964, Nov. 1
Subject
Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Bien Hoa Air Base (Vietnam); United States. Air Force; Defensive (Military science); Bombardment; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam
Location
Biên Hòa, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.9574; 106.8427
Size
20 x 26 cm
Container
B187, F1
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Copyright Information
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English