Photo #2739
VMO-2 Sapper Attack
VMO-2 Sapper Attack
the damage caused on the MAG-16/VMO-2 flight line by the VietCong Sapper unit of 90 men (four squads) who hit MMAF in the early morning of October 28th, 1965. "VMO-2 was practically wiped out." "The sappers destroyed 19 helicopters and damaged another 35 that evening, killing three Marines; two from VMO-2, one a Navy corpsman on medevac standby."
see also KIA INCIDENT 651028
Submitted by: Fred E. "Dutch" White H&MS-16 and VMO-2
Relocated from COMBAT PHOTOS by George T. Curtis / NOV 2002
Comment by: Raymond H. Reinders on Sep 15, 2006 12:05 AM
I was a member of VMO-2 and was on interior guard that night. We had just come off the "mat" to the interior guard bunker when the VC came through the corner where the VMO-2 ordinance tent was. They moved up the two lines of UH-!Es and then down the mat through the '34's. The corpman killed was Chief Gelien(sp?).......There is more.......
Comment by: Joe Johnston on Mar 22, 2009 12:12 PM
I was on interior guard duty when the VC hit us, and had just taken my post on the flight line when the first chopper exploded. As the VC swept down the mat, tossing satchel charges into and alongside the planes, a half-dozen of us were waiting at a bunker adjacent to the flight line. When the VC came into view, running for an exit, we opened fire. It was short and intense. Although we were hellbent on killing our attackers, it's doubtful that we brought any of them down. However, it was gratifying to walk among the bodies when firing had stopped and an unofficial "all clear" was given.
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Posted by Admin on 2002-11-06; Last Modified on 2010-11-25
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