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From: Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Planespotter near-disaster... [9/9] - S Viets ha_thanh_arty accidently shots down caribou.jpg (1/1)
Date: 3 Jul 2016 17:54:03 -0700
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In article <eeOdnXmXDNmxM-TKnZ2dnUU7-YvNnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Byker says...
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>"Miloch" wrote in message news:nlc8ap023tb@drn.newsguy.com...
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>> Army Vietnam War De Havilland DHC 4 Caribou Aircraft...
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>Outgoing artillery fire. Orders were to cease fire but someone didn't get
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In the VietNam War, the entire country was divided into artillary districts (for
lack of a better term) and as pilots, it was your job to radio ahead to see if
any unit was firing arty in the flight path you intended.
As soon as I left Ben Hoa, for example, I'd call "Bien Hoa Artillary" and ask
if they had any outgoing to worry about so I wouldn't fly thru it. If I was
headed for Song Be, I'd radio ahead to "Song Be Artillary" to see if anything
was going on in their area of responsibility...again...so I wouldn't fly into
it.
The prob here was it's S Vietnamese...one night in Ben Hoa, a SVietnamese
killing/wounding more than 4 soldiers 50 yards away who were taking a shower.
It was at night. What made it worse was they did it again to the SAME UNIT two
hours later wounding/killing 20 more who were asleep in their bunks!!
Friendly fire is a bitch!
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