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1 Graphic courtesy of:

David R. White
US Navy, YN4
Psyops Div., HQUSMACV
1970-1971

This is me in Vietnam.
2 Graphic courtesy of:  David R. White

The Annapolis Hotel.  My arrival accommodations for three days.
3 Graphic courtesy of:  David R. White

Dodge City, located inside the MACV complex.
4 Graphic courtesy of:  David R. White

Pool with our hot rods parked outside.
5 Graphic courtesy of:  David R. White

Last bomb out of a B-52.  A leaflet bomb.  Carried about 10,000 Chieu Hoi leaflets.  It had a string of C-4 explosive between its two halves.

It detonated at a specific altitude and could carry the leaflets 10-20 miles in the wind.  This one was in our offices.
6 Graphic courtesy of:  David R. White

Just recently looked up Horne Hall BOQ.

I was stationed at HQUSMACV from Apr 1970 to Apr 1971.

During that time, I got a job with special services and worked various BOQs showing movies at night.

I was working the night that the Horne Hall BOQ, got hit with a sabotage bomb under the front desk.

Below are some pictures I took the next morning after the bombing.

Here’s the front door.
7 Graphic courtesy of:  David R. White

Across from the front desk.

I was standing there about nine minutes before the bomb went off.

All I could learn about it was that when the duty officer pulled the switch on the water pump outside, it went off.

My friend Steve and I could not get a military taxi to pick us up so we walked over to the Idaho BOQ and got a ride with one of Steve’s friends back to Dodge City barracks. They never found anything of the Vietnamese clerk behind the front desk.
8 Graphic courtesy of:  David R. White

Wall directly across from the front desk.  No one was in that room during the bombing.
9 Graphic courtesy of:  David R. White

Wall behind the desk.
10 Graphic courtesy of:  David R. White

Definitely not the place to have been.
11 Graphic courtesy of:

James Dugan
90th Replacement Battalion
Camp Alpha
June 1969 - June 1970

Front door of the USO, downtown Saigon.
12 Graphic courtesy of:  James Dugan

Inside the USO, downtown Saigon.

The roof had been destroyed and they put up the parachute.
13 Graphic courtesy of:

Bob D. Farmer
17th SOS
AC-111 Gunship

Our barracks.

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