In article , Byker says...



"Miloch" wrote in message ...

Army Vietnam War De Havilland DHC 4 Caribou Aircraft...

Outgoing artillery fire. Orders were to cease fire but someone didn't get
the word...



In the VietNam War, the entire country was divided into artillary districts (for
lack of a better term) and as pilots, it was your job to radio ahead to see if
any unit was firing arty in the flight path you intended.

As soon as I left Ben Hoa, for example, I'd call "Bien Hoa Artillary" and ask
if they had any outgoing to worry about so I wouldn't fly thru it. If I was
headed for Song Be, I'd radio ahead to "Song Be Artillary" to see if anything
was going on in their area of responsibility...again...so I wouldn't fly into
it.

The prob here was it's S Vietnamese...one night in Ben Hoa, a SVietnamese
battery accidentally fired 180° out of faze and hit the unit next to mine
killing/wounding more than 4 soldiers 50 yards away who were taking a shower.
It was at night. What made it worse was they did it again to the SAME UNIT two
hours later wounding/killing 20 more who were asleep in their bunks!!

Friendly fire is a bitch!



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