Phu Bai ammo dump

This was in May?? 1968 at Phu Bai ammo dump. I forget if it was from incoming or something else. Unusual to get incoming during the day at Phu Bai so it might have been an accident.

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Comment by: Dick Flynn on May 30, 2006 12:03 AM
Regarding pic # 4521, I believe that the ammo dump ignited on May 8th 1968, and was caused by the crash
of one of those bubble front helicopters, that has been damaged by ground fire somewhere east of the camp and was trying to get back to the airport. I heard the first explosion from Foxtrot sector of the perimeter, and heard later that day what had happened..

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Comment by: Jeff Upton on Jun 25, 2008 06:14 PM
… I was in the 578 LEM … We had recently moved our company of about 100 into the field just South of … and between the ARVN artillery base and MAC-V. We heard that this was a Chinook. … Starting a take-off … the forward propeller clipped a conex. In the picture, however, …It looks like there is a building on the hill in the distance … I don’t remember any buildings. On the hill I remember the VC use to occasionally set-up and fire a few mortar rounds. Short rounds went into the ARVN camp long rounds to the airfield. Jeff Upton …. Class of 67-68

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Comment by: James G. Garner on Nov 9, 2008 03:00 PM
It was 8 May 68. I was outside my office in the PCV HQ, and just happened to be looking toward the ammo dump. Went back and looked in my notebook I kept in those days, I saw what looked like a CH-47 helicopter with ammo in a sling, and that it looked like it hit the berm and tipped over into the dump. Explosions followed shortly.

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Comment by: Louis Falco on May 27, 2009 08:59 AM
I worked at the ammo dump, only 100 yards from the berm. I had taken care of a 96 truck convoy the previous night (101st Airborne, or 82nd ) and the forklift driver (Blevins) and I were given a few extra hours to rest. We heard the explosion from our hut in PhuBai, and when I went to the dump, the area was covered in so much busted metal and wood, some areas almost a foot thick.