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605th Company Area

Phu Loi Base Camp South Vietnam

This photo shows the 605th living area just below the main hanager


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Wendell Link 03-Oct-2022 20:45
I was crew chief with 23rd Artillery Aviation Support in Phu Loi. I cannot remember the name of the airfield. They rained hell on us at Tet.
I flew with Lt Tom Birch, WO Wallace French and Cpt Richard James
1967-1968
Terry Jacht 17-Aug-2016 00:53
I was an air traffic controller at Phu Lou from Sept 69 to july 71. Had a stint in the Cambodia, directing choppers to three different LZs. We ran the airfield at Phu Loi, which originally was a Japanese airfield during the occupation of Indo China. Our company had about 18 controllers,generator maintaince guy,two electronic techs,a clerk and a coronal or Lt. Coronal, who was airfield commander. Worked for the army but under FAA jurisdiction.
Terry Jacht 17-Aug-2016 00:29
I was an air traffic controller at Phu Lou airfield from Sept 69 to july 71with a stint in the Cambodian invasion.j just prior to the incursion, Phu Lou was thebusiest airport in the world.
larry moody 26-May-2016 19:39
i was a crew chief with the 184th aviation co ( bird dogs) sta in PHU LOI jan 67 to jan 68 and have some good pics of the bone yard
Guest 26-May-2012 16:24
Hi! In March of 1967 I was stationed in Fort Riley, is and my company was transferred to Vietnam. We went to VN on the same sh the USS General Gordon. Land in Vung Tau and 2 weeks I was transferred to Phu . At fist I was maintenance working on OH 13 and then I spent a month on bunker guard duty. I went back to maintenance and then spent my last 6 months as a member of Pipesmoke.
John Flath 08-Dec-2007 13:22
Hi,

I left Ft Hood, Tx in Feb, 1967 bound for Oakland, Ca.

Boarded the Gen Gordon, and arrived off shore of Vung Tau early March, 1967.
Did guard duty at Long Binh amo-dump just after it was blown up by VC.

Tranferred to Pho Loi with service at Hqs & Support Co, 610th Maint Battalion through Tet Offensive in February 1968.


For the time that I was at the 610th Maint Battalion, we would hear the engines of the choppers warming up in the early morning hours.

A little bit later, one after the other, lines of choppers would take off, and again during the late afternoon hours, these choppers would arrive in lines again to settle down from another day of flying.

I remember standing in line for the mess hall and receiving fire from never seen VC off in the tree line.

I remember the frequent VC mortar attacks, and their continual attempts to damage the parked choppers.

My most vivid memories of Phu Loi was viewing the few helicopter remains in the 'bone yard' when I first arrived in March of 1967.

You could walk through the area then. Very disturbing was the condition of the choppers, bullet holes, and blood. There were only a half dozen chopper frames there when I first arrived.

On my last day at Phu Loi, I drove by the 'bone yard' and cannot forget how many frames were stacked up like so many lifeless piles of cordwood, and how many lives were forever changed for the people and families of those who flew in those machines.

Thank you for posting the pictures. I had forgotten how the place looked. The 610th Maint Battalion was located on the perimeter, probably north of the runway.
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