Dan Aldridge Night Ops., Mortar attack, Fort support, more
Curt Herrick Bird Dogs with Teeth
Don Nicholson Fishing for Flags
Joe Swift Ben Tre and 886
Bob Woolley 032, Tit for Tat, VT Rockets
Dave kling Immovable ailerons
Charley Baker Charley's adventures with Charlie
Stuart Jamison "Ranger", a Fox Tale (Jim McKee)
Shorts from e-mails, discussion groups etc., a paragraph or two, no novels.
Here is your big chance to get published on the net. Send a good Fox Tale.
See more Swamp Fox stories at the Fox's Den
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We are going to have to get together, your memory is even worse than mine. - House
Remember ---- ? Was he the weazeley guy with the clip board? If he is who I think he is, I helped him unload flares from his bird. Says you untie the lanyard a I will drop from inside. Dumb shit me, I untied the lanyard and he dropped the flare off the other wing. - Doc
---- is also the one who shot up your work area at a cobra, three clips if memory serves. Killed the fridge, SGT's office and a large amount of parts!!! - House
Anybody know what happened to my pilot, Brian Kinderman? - House
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Julius, what happened to your arm? (see photo gallery) Oh, I was loading a rocket into the tube when it speak sionara out over the Mekong.
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Excerpts from Delta Dragon Discussion (DDD)
We were doing a sweep of Cambodia border north of An Phu when we ambushed by an unknown number of enemy. The only air component we could rise was, you guessed it Swamp Fox 19. He went into a climb over tree line and appeared to stall during which he fired his spotting rockets at the enemy position. as he recovered from the dive, the Bird Dog was engulfed in automatic weapons fire. The tracers looked like the fourth of July. Needless to say he repeated the attack until he was out of spotting rounds.
Anyway Swamp Fox 19 is a gutsy SOB and has my respect. Robert L. Patton, USN retired.
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From DDD
Looking for Fox 25, my guardian angel Bird Dog FAC, Cpt. "Dutch" Holland. Flew out of a section of road out of Gocong except when he had to have his wings replaced. He saved our butts more than once. Understand he was the terror of the province mess hall, stealing milk glasses to hold m26's with pins pulled out to make L19 bomber. (We would never do anything like that, would we? HGIC)
Rick Gandenberger rickg@tempployee.com
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When I was stationed out at My Tho one of my Pilots ran into a pallet of rockets while looking at a jeep full of "Coes`" women, boy did we all laugh hard. The pilots name was Cockerham.
John R. Eckley jeckley@bloomfieldnm.com
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Just wondered who might have been "Swampfox 13" about March/April of 1969. He is the center of one of my most exciting days and most often told stories.
I was Vulture 29, flight lead for the 162nd AHC on a typical morning sitting at Ben Tre airfield on standby for our typical 9th ID search missions.
I was monitoring the radio including guard when I heard "mayday, mayday, mayday - this is Swampfox 13 - I have 500 VC in the open 5 miles west of Ben Tre - I need anyone that has anything to shoot."
Now 500 bad guys 5 miles from where my but was relaxing in the morning sun brought the pucker factor up a little. I looked to the west to see a birdog in a dive, firing rockets and 51s going up past him. This really got my attention. Swampfox 13 headed for Ben Tre and landed with a badly shot up RH main gear and ground looped on the runway. Several of our guys helped push the airplane clear and he departed in another airplane.
There was a lot of action that day and the next couple. Swampfox 13 was slightly in error. There was a whole enemy division out there complete with 51s, large mortars and rocket launchers. It was rumored that the NVA knew that the 9th was about to begin pulling out and wanted to hit them hard before they left. They were planning a major assault on Dong Tam.
Swampfox 13 had spotted them before they were ready to launch the assault. Our C&C radio soon came to life. We soon cranked and I led several memorable assaults into the area and completed several resupply and medevac missions in the next couple days. They did attempt a ground assault on Dong Tam and they hit us pretty hard with Mortars and Rockets. We even lost a ship while trying to refuel in Dong Tam.
Casualties were heavy, but I am sure they would have been worse (for our guys) if Swampfox 13 had not caught them in the open trying to setup AA.
Fox 13 was Don Phillips per Dave Kling 5/24/05
Dave Bonifield Vulture 29, UH1 flight lead
email: dbonifield@cox.net
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