Article about the Việt Cộng shelling of Biên Hòa Air Base

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Title

Article about the Việt Cộng shelling of Biên Hòa Air Base

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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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t/a press tribune newyork 01190 prorosenfeld captain one bien hoa paren friendship unparen souvietnam dash aye bbb57 jetfighter pilot formerly based in suffolk county new air newyork airbase comma captain john [deletion: joy] johnson said quote eyem going to sleep with my hardhat on my toes tonight unquote following early morning viet cong communist mortar shellingve [deletion: vietnamese dash american] airforce base destroying or damaging moren squadronve jetfighters etother aircraft comma killing four americans [deletion: etinu] etwounding thirtyone others [deletion: sto] moredeepe mots ajoutes: 2 mots rayes: 4 B Deepe beverly deepe carte no. 44 t/a press tribune newyork [deletion: 01120] 01200 [XXXX indicating deletion] prorosenfeld captain two quote we all feel very fortunate it was notrptnot worse than it was cmaunquote [deletion: johnson] greyhaired captain explained stopquote we just hope [insertion: [illegible]] they do not come again tonight stopquote eyem going to sleep with my hardhat paren steelhelmet unparen on my toes tonight so eye know where it is in case they attack again stopunquote moredeepe mots ajoutes: 3 mots rayes: 5 B Deepe beverly deepe ca rte no. 44 t/a press tribune newyork 01200 prorosenfeld captain three johnson comma who was based in stationed etlived on suffolk county airbase nineteen sixty to sixtytwo comma look at heapsve crispy ashes where american [deletion: fighterjets jets] fighterbombers of his eighth tactical bomb squadron attached to second airdivision saigon stoppara squadron commander major hhh fff oneil of knoxville tennessee [insertion: [illegible]] said quote eye feel like custer stop eye donot have much command stopunquote [deletion: seven] five of his aircraft were listed as destroyed [XXXX indicating deletion] eight suffered major damage etseven others minor damage stop [XXXX indicating deletion] bbb57 canberras when new cost one etquarter million dollars each dash hence costve attack at least six million dollars stop costve estimated thirty roundsve [XXXX indicating deletion] mortar ammunition used by vietcong was totalve onehundred fourteen dollars stoppara moredeepe mots ajoutes: 6 mots rayes: [illegible] B Deepe beverly deepe ca rte no. 44 t/a press tribune newyork 01230 prorosenfeld [insertion: captain four] quote eye felt sooner or later this would come etsure nuff it has cmaunquote johnson said wiping sweaty hands on blue flightsuit stop quote stopquote theyve been mortaring villages near here etweve been fired on [deletion: in the traffic pattern as we land] landing at the field stopunquote para johnson [deletion: who flew vietnameswise] said vietcong guerrillas fired at him as he first landed vietnamwise august fifth [deletion: as] for airdefense reserve as unistates bombed novietnam during tonkingulf crisis [XXXX indicating deletion] stoppara quote last night eye had just gotten my bed warm when the first burst hit billeting area etsomething started to burn stop there was alotve smoke eteye could tell [XXXX indicating deletion] shelling was progressing east down runway etthen there was more [deletion: fue] fire from fuel in area stoppara requote next burst got closer [XXXX indicating deletion] eteye knew twas [deletion: in] on base proper stop mostve fellas were in quarters stop my navigator [deletion: ey] eteye started towards runway etwe get aye burstve tracers etwe crawled up ditch for fifty yards etacross soccer field to the line paren where bbb57 based unparen moredeepe mots ajoutes: 11 mots rayes: 14 beverly deepe carte no. 44 Beverly Deepe t/a press tribune newyork 01231 prorosenfeld captain five during most intense partve firing when [deletion: all the fighters were] bombers were burning fiercely old supply sergeant came outcame yelling semicolon theyve just shot at me stop wheres [deletion: the] light switch [deletion: semico] semiquote stop during this time our skyraiders paren aaalllhhh [deletion: world] Korean war [deletion: two] fighters unparen took off etan hour later were dropping bombs right northve [deletion: the] runway [deletion: stop] stopunquotepara aye young captain near him said quote we had artificial moonlight all night stop they were dropping flares [deletion: all] in [deletion: the] rain etthe fog stop etwhen the hueys paren armed hulb helicopters unparen [insertion: were firing] it was just like dumping out bucketve [insertion: red] coals with sparks [deletion: firing] flying stopunquote several hundred yards down from the runway were [deletion: the bu] [XXXX indicating deletion] long wooden [deletion: quote] huts [deletion: unquote] ve unistates army 118th aviation company which sustained mostve thirtyone wounded etall fourve dead stoppara [deletion: the] firstve seven huts to be hit was marked quote billet ten unquote stop [XXXX indicating deletion] rain poured through demolished tile roof onto stackve mattresses [deletion: ettall] etten tall wooden closets marked with namesve [deletion: private first class] pppfffcccs dash [deletion: mostly] mostve them cooks in nextdoor messhall stoppara floorve muddy room lay stackve soggy books among them quote gunsve august unquote stop another [deletion: onetitl] entitled quote promise at dawn unquote moredeepe mots ajoutes: 5 mots rayes: 2 beverly deepe carte no. 44 B [illegible] t/a press tribune newyork 01233 prorosenfeld captain six quote eye ranoutve billets just as first mortar hit cmaunquote young private said in passing stopquote my five friends behind me never came out [deletion: stop] enditdeepe mots rayes: 1 mots ajoutes: 2 Beverly Deepe beverly deepe carte 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

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Publisher

Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Language

English