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Letters From Readers – February 2009 Vietnam MagazineDrafts| Letters and Issues| VIET Issues | 3 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post The Browning M-1919A4 .30-caliber machine gun was mounted atop the gun turret and sandbagged in, with more bags placed around the top to afford some form of cover. Sometime toward the middle of my tour, a .50-cal machine gun on a fabricated mount was issued to the lead amtracs of each section, with the .30 mounted facing aft. The .50 was used to shoot up any channeled area for mines, but the results weren’t always good. In March 1966, Alpha Company, 1st Amtrac Battalion, moved to Cua Viet. Alpha became “AmGrunts,” conducting infantry patrols and whatever missions would be assigned to a grunt unit. Unfortunately, being listed as a “support unit,” Alpha was last for air, artillery or naval gunfire support along with weapons and equipment. The AmGrunts had to make do and get it done.
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3 Comments to “Letters From Readers – February 2009 Vietnam Magazine”
one of the mike 8 boats was a medical aid boat that was used to haul the gun barges. it was set up with an operating table, at times a doctor and always with at least 2 medics. they provided sick call and emergency medical for the 3/34th and field troops. they carried all medicines and vaccinations.
By wayne on Dec 26, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Regarding Glenn Sheathelm’s message…
I teach English in Northeastern France and, in 2003, I worked on the topic of “West-German presence in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War”. We discovered what Glenn Sheathelm mentioned about the members of the Order of Malta, but also found interest in the activities of the Helgoland (the hospital ship) in Saigon and Da Nang – as well as what was done by other aid workers of the German community in Vietnam.
What I learn today is even more interesting to me, as it is brand new, and nothing seems to have been published about a French presence in Vietnam after the French left South-east Asia. The name of Christiane Granger is totally new to me, for instance. All I knew regarded the death of Czeslaw Dixa (of the Order of Malta ; moreover, Marie Luise Kerber’s corpse has recently been repatriated to Germany, a member of the Order told me) and the massacres at Hue, during the Tet offensive, in which German doctors lost their lives.
If I’m allowed to ask such a question: is the information mentioned by Glenn Sheathelm fully classified and out of reach for a French civilian like me, or has anything been published on the topic (or is anything available online)?
Best regards from France,
Eric Mansuy
By Eric Mansuy on Jan 13, 2009 at 4:06 am
Hello to all of my river rat friends…..alot of water has gone under the bridge…..and for all of you freshmen out there still….it’s Landing Craft Mechanized 8…..loved the classes, proud of my service…..hear the Benewah is a reef in the Phil……and Dong Tam is a snake pit……certainly did have a fine time…….take care…..Jim Dunaway
By Jim Dunaway on Jun 20, 2009 at 7:49 pm