Wow! Look at that!
TO: Echo Co. 1/5 Cavalry, Delta Co. 1/5, HHC 1/5, and anyone else who served on FSB David.
RE: Current events
Several of us have been contacted by Richard Magner, a Warrant Officer who flew aircraft with the 229th Aviation Battalion as part of the 1st Air Cavalry. He has for- warded several images of the fire base. This is obviously in 1970. He also has some more current images and those are interesting as well. He is in contact with some of the Vietnamese who are working to recover the enemy soldiers’ remains and return them to their families. They were buried in a mass grave following the June 13/14 attack.
There appears to be a road junction there now. Something I didn’t expect to see.
Back to 1970. I was not there during the attack on the fire base. I would have been on LZ Kuhn at that time, the night of June 13/14, 1970.
Can anyone help to locate the grave(s) of the Viet Cong who were killed that night? I heard there was the one large grave. Any help would be appreciated. I have always thought we were fighting NVA troops at that time, but the attacking force was from the 174th Regiment of the VC 5th Division.
Bird-out
Wow! Thanks for commenting. Always fascinating to hear another story about that night!
Bird
How many of you remember the 1st of the 9th A troop being there the night before the attack? We parked our choppers between the concertina and the berm.
I was one of the scout pilots that left that evening before the attack.
We climbed out through 2500 feet of clouds from the Firebase to head back to Tay Ninh.
If the crack of daylight we left 10-in headed for Firebase David because there was no radio contact. There was barely any ceiling.
We were coming for y’all. Squeezing between the clouds diving over ridgelines into a valley hoping it wasn’t socked into the Treetops. We got lost on the way had to land do map recon. We found you. The wildest thing was I had parked my Chopper between two bunkers where the attack took place.