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I wasn't with Big John but the Tet was unlike anything that had
happened up to that point. I was at Bien Hoa when the rockets started flying we ducked into our bunkers as we normally did. Usually these attacks lasted only a few minutes and it was back to bed. This night when the rockets stopped a massive infantry attack hit the east side of the perimeter. This area only had a couple of VNAF security post and it didn't take long for the NVA breech the line. About half way from the wire to the runway was some old French bunkers maybe 250 yards inside the base. It was at this time that our helipad became the front line. The bad guys set up in one of the reinforced bunkers and started shooting a 57 recoiless rifle at the F-100s in their revetments. All the time we were trying to keep their heads down with rifles and a couple of M-60 machine guns. Overhead the 334th AHB Playboys were tearing up the area with their Huey Cobras. That is how it continued through the night,at first light me and a kid from Texas went to the other end of the pad to an ammo supply we kept for the gunships. As we headed back for the perimeter with a supply of ammo. I was looking south about 10 miles on the solid gray overcast I saw the brightest red reflection and a shock wave ring growing . The shock wave just kept coming and the reflection turned into a massive fireball,as the shock ring passed me the earth shook hard enough to bounce me off the ground I about crapped I thought that someone put the wrong bullet into a wrong gun and fired a tactical nuke. I jumped into a ditch and was trying to remember all the nuke stuff from basic training. Obviously it wasn't a atomic weapon but the NVA blowing up the Long Binh ammo dump. Later that day we had A1 Skyraiders and F-100s bombing inside the base. It took about three days to mop up and return the base to its rightfull owners,us. So the gist of this story is if I thought that day someone fired a nuke, thinking that there was an air attack wasn't to far fetched. On the other hand Big John may have just ****ed someone off. Frank M. Hitlaw Jakarta, Indonesia |
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