Due to its location on a peninsula, Cam Ranh AB was one of the most secure USAF bases in South Vietnam and only came under attack from the mainland on the eve of 4 March 1968 when twenty-seven incoming rounds of 75mm recoilless rifle fire hit the base proper within a …

This 65-minute DVD features 483rd Tactical Airlift Wing (TAW), 12th Tactical Fighter Wing, 12th USAF Hospital, 14th Aerial Port Squadron. Includes airmen in day-to-day activities at the base...

January 31, 1968 to June, 1968 © 2005) First Night - TET 1968. It took only an hour or so from the time we got off the plane at Cam Ranh Bay until we were led to the "Repo Depot" at the North end of the Air Base. We were still asking anyone we could what had happened the night before.

The intelligence was outstanding as proven by a huge incident on March 1, 1968 along the coast in Khanh Hoa Province, the provincial district that included Cam Ranh Bay and Nha Trang. There were a total of five contacts with enemy trawlers on Feb 29 …

The enemy's principal targets included provincial capitals, cities in the western highlands and major cities and military installations along the coastal area as far south as Cam Ranh Bay. Created Date

Through good fortune or otherwise, the huge logistics complex and base at Cam Ranh Bay escaped, as did the jet-capable fields at Phu Cat, Phan Rang, and Tuy Hoa. According to MACV’s later body count, attacks between 29 January and 11 February cost the enemy precisely 31,754 dead, the great majority them “irreplaceable hard-core VC.”

Mar 8, 2021 · The Cam Ranh peninsula juts southward into the South China Sea to the east and the sheltered bay on the west, forming the finest natural deep-water port in Southeast Asia. During the Vietnam War, the peninsula was spanned north to south by the 6th Convalescent Hospital, the Cam Ranh Bay Air Force Base, an ammunition storage area, steel storage ...

Cam Ranh Bay AB: 12th SPS, TET 1968: Binh Thuy AB (TDY), by TSgt Wayne E. Smale. 1968. Wes Smale, a native of Elkhorn WI, enlisted in November of 1965. After basic training was assigned to the 4510th Air Police Sqdn, Luke AFB AZ. In March of 1967 he was transferred to Cam Ranh Bay AB, Vietnam.

Vietnam War-Stories.com: Photos of 12th TFW, USAF Hospital, Cam Ranh Bay, by Roger Schrater. 1967-1968. 1995-2023. Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam 1967-68: I was NCOIC of Ward 11 at the 12th. Hosp. and rotated out in June of '68.... Went on a Medcap in November of '67. I was stationed at Cam Ranh Bay, 12th.