1 - May 10, 2012 5:48 am

Name:

Esteban

Location:

Chico

Comments:

Good Site, Continue the wonderful job. Thank you so much.

2 - May 7, 2012 5:06 pm

Name:

Udo Fischer

Location:

Alamogordo NM

Comments:

RE: Son Tay Raider Patch - looked at the familiar writeup, as well as sale of the patch. I designed the patch the day after the raid for only those that participated in the raid. The final drawing I then gave to an USAF pararescueman who was on the raid. He had the first batch made at a local Thai taylor shop. Thereafter I lost track of who did changes to the patch and how it was made available. Fine with me. At the time I also was a pararescueman assigned to the 40theARRS 'Jolly Greens'. During the raid I was aboard an HH-53 orbiting north of the 'Fishes Mouth' (2 ea HH-43s), ready to go after downed raiders. Fortunately, there were no losses.

Reply: Thank you for all the information regarding the Son Tay raid. Many VN war military patches (especially ARVN unit patches) have been made as replicas by collectors or military association groups. Any VN war authentic military patches if existed would be valuable for collection. Your is very specially unique.

3 - January 24, 2012 10:33 am

Name:

Bill Davis

Location:

Bloomington, IL USA

Comments:

Wow! What terrific memories and feelings came gushing in when I found this site & spent some time roaming around. I really appreciate all the effort and emotion that has gone into preserving this stuff.

Cám ơn quý vị rât nhiều!

Bill (135th MIG - 1968 - Tan San Nhut, Phu Bai, Chu Lai)

Reply: I am impressed with your Vietnamese typing (completed with accent marks). :0) Thân chào Chiến Hữu Bill Davis and thank you for your service in Vietnam.

4 - January 15, 2012 8:43 pm

Name:

John

Location:

North Dakota

Comments:

A very great website. Thank you for putting all this very informative information together. I was a cobra helicopter gunship pilot with the U.S. Army 48th Assault Helicopter Company during the 1972 Easter Offensive. The unit was stationed at the Marble Mountain airfield on the beach directly east of DaNang. I flew gun cover for some insertions of the South Vietnamese Marines into areas around Quang Tri that were teaming with the NVA. The LZs were unbelievably hot, but they established their positions, held their ground, moved out, and met their objectives against unbelievable odds. As you know, they eventually re-took Quang Tri. It was horrific fighting. I know that a lot of them did not survive.

I will always remember the bravery, fighting ability, sense of duty, and honor of the South Vietnamese Marines. The sad part is, in the end, their country was lost, through no fault of their own.

Reply: Thank you for flying the dangerous close air supports to assist ARVN Marines in Quang Tri province in 1972. As you have known, in 1972, the northern Quang Tri province was infested with North Vietnamese divisions and triple As. You are one of a few Vietnam Vets who have witnessed the real Vietnam war that began with the Easter Offensive in 1972. We SALUTE you!

5 - January 7, 2012 7:25 am

Name:

marcello

Location:

italy

Comments:

outstanding website!
a very great help for my current work.
The job of fictional writers is to study the subject they will write about - so to create worlds true to real life -, and I found your website awesome.
I am actually reading it from the beginning to the end, and it is outstanding.
Thank you very much!

Best regards, Marcello

Reply: Thanks for READING on my website. Many people like to look at the pictures and skip the text while the text provides more details of the story.I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for many documentary photos that bore no photographers' names or captions. In the internet's world of amateurs' research and after more than 36 years since the end of Vietnam war, a lot of Vietnam documentary pictures have been circulated for post and repost to the point it's hard to trace back to the original sources. Sometimes I have a vague idea about the location and circumstance of the photo, but I don't want put a caption based on a wrong guess; therefore, any information regarding Vietnam war pictures would be greatly appreciated.

Director Oliver Stone's "Platoon" Vietnam war movie (1986 Best Picture) has been praised for its realistic detail although the movie script was fictional, because the director, himself a Vietnam vet who knows how to hire other real Vietnam Vets for the Platoon's technical advisory. As for Marcello Avanzo, your fictional writing would be successful when you study the subject in real life through foreign history. My website is not just about MODEL AIRCRAFT and VNAF, there are much more about a lost nation with its culture, artifacts, art, people, heroes, and traitors. Thanks for reading it from the beginning to the end.