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Date Posted: Mon, Jan 30 2017, 8:55:28 PST
Author: Steven Hall
Author Host/IP: 76-234-224-141.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net / 76.234.224.141
Subject: Re: Binh Thuy Sapper Attack
In reply to: Terry Sasek BT 68-69 LM#687 's message, "Binh Thuy Sapper Attack" on Sun, Jan 29 2017, 16:37:51 PST

This was one scary night for me. I was in Tower Kilo 7a on the east side of the base. The sappers were attempting access to the base through the drainage canal just to my right (south). It was overcast and the perimeter lights on the east side were not working (sabotaged). The Starlight scope was pretty much useless. The sapper's attack was timed to occur at our shift change when we were distracted. I had been having a creepy feeling that something was going to happen, but I didn't know what. An ARVN listening post, picked up on the sappers and the exchange of automatic weapons fire began. Red and green tracers ripped across in front of the tower in an exchange of gun fire. I couldn't get CSC's attention because the NCOs in there were too busy with the shift change. It was just like the VC planned. But, the ARVN had the sappers pinned down and they nailed them with 60mm mortars. "Firefly" (our SP mortar crews) lit up the sky with flares, which only succeeded in making me a sitting duck in the tower. From what I read in Lt. Col Roger Fox's "Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam" that was the last sapper attack attempted on Binh Thuy. As for me, it was thankfully, the first and only sapper attack I was part of.

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