On the way to Vietnam I visited the folks, then went to Salt Lake City to do research at the Genealogical Library. I also got my Patriarchal Blessing from the Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint. I stayed with the Kalunkis whom I knew from Fort Benning. Then I boarded the plane at Fairfield CA, stopped at Honolulu during the night, and arrived at Saigon the next day. I was anxious but excited. After a couple days at Saigon, I flew to my first assignment at Tuy Hoa, north of Cam Ranh Bay. My engineering battalion, the 577th, was building a road which we called I577. A couple months later the battalion was transferred to Don Duong in the mountains just west of Cam Ranh Bay. We built a base camp right below the Don Duong dam. I was the supply officer for several months and frequently traveled down the winding mountain road to transact supply business at Cam Ranh Bay.
I arrived as a 2nd Lieutenant and made Captain right before I left.
Our Base at Don Duong
We built our base on the land in front of a dam. We protected the dam.
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| dam we built |
Storage container
(Tuy Hoa) Phu Hiep base camp
Building Don Duong base camp
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