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From: Tony Sergeant
Wayne Evans, Sr. That would be II Corps in the highlands?
From: Joseph Lange
The picture is of Dragon Mt. Near Pleiku in II Corps. Someone else talked about another location unrelated to this picture: Dragon Mt. It was also called Titty Mt.
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From: Brian Keating
Pretty sure this is also Dragon Mountain. Took this on a flight to LZ X-Ray.
From: Ralph Forbes
Dragon Mountain...another view...not my photo.
From: Bill Johnson
I was ATC at Pleiku and we used Titty mountain as a reference. I once had to explain it to a pilot (smile). Was also at Da Nang and visited Monkey Mountain.
From: Joseph Lange
The picture is of Dragon Mt. Near Pleiku in II Corps. Someone else talked about another location unrelated to this picture: Dragon Mt. It was also called Titty Mt.
From: Wayne Evans, St.
West of Camp Holloway, Pleiku.
From: Tom Kerrigan
On the coast south of Cam Rahn Bay.
From: Brian Keating
Pretty sure that is Dragon Mountain in the background, taken downtown Plieku, 1971. The fellow in the picture was our interpreter "Johnnie." He was later captured on night coming in the wire in Kontum.
From: Tony Sergeant
Where was this? Closest city and what corps? Very cool photo.
[Closest city was Pleiku, near the Cambodian border. Was in II Corps. Webmaster ]
From: Gerald Green.
Great picture, thanks for sharing.
From: Terry Smith
Looks like a pretty easy target to me
From: Joseph Lange
Not a real clear picture but that's the mountain. You can see Signal Hill in front of it.
From: Joseph Lange
Not a real clear picture but that's the mountain. You can see Signal Hill in front of it.
From: Tony Sergeant
Never seen nor heard of it. Thank god for this site. Charlie able to get near it or mortar it?
From: Erik B. Villlard, VietnamWarHistoryOrg
Dated: July 11,2017
Subject: From the VietnamHistoryOrg Page
Aerial view of the southern end of Dragon Mountain, showing the tropospheric parabolic reflectors operated by members of the 362nd Sig Co . Directly behind them on the top of the hill is the 124th Sig Co and then AFVN, 4 Nov 69.
Photographer: Lt. Hoffman via Fold3
From: Tony Sergeant
Where was this? Closest city and what corps? Very cool photo.
From: Wayne Evans, Sr.
West of Camp Holloway, Pleiku
From: Andrew Longo
Alongside Camp Enari, 4th ID base camp. .
From: Gerald Green
Great Pic, thanks for sharing.
From: Tom Kerrigan
Who remembers Nui Dat at Phan Rang?
From: Tony Sergent
Never seen or heard of it. Thank God for this site. Charlie able to get near it or mortar it?
From: David Dodson
That is Dragon Mountain in the background. 20th Engineer Bn, Pleiku, 19968-1970. Never saw Pleiku street that clean!! Didn't know there was that much stuff on top of the mountain.
From: William Weaver
Looks like you all lived in bunkers 24/7.
From: Jim Woods
II Corps, Pleiku.
From: Tom Kerrigan
I am confused you guys at saying Phan Rang was west of the coast? Damn, we did a lot of swimming in the Pacific. Maybe I misspelled the mountain in the middle of the Air Base.
From: Joseph Lange
I did my guard duty up there many times. Yes, Terry Smith it was target but base camp was at the base of the mountain on that side giving nice cross fire. We had a .50 cal in one bunker facing down the mountain at the gorge at its base.
From: Guy Slater [SGT, USA, at Pleiku in 1970. Taken from a separate Facebook thread.]
I lived there from November of 1969 until the beginning of April 1970. If you click on the picture [at the top of this conversation], look at the platform tower at the very top. That was mine for a while, with the124th Sig Bn. It was a 40-foot tower, and we had antennas on top of it.
In December, we were getting the tail end of a typhoon, I think, and some smart ass at Ops decided that, because transmissions were not optimal, we need to re-orient the dipoles. Those were on the antenna, and screwed on. Lower the antenna by 5-foot sections through the launcher, until the antenna was down. Then one team member would have to climb atop the launcher to re-orient the dipoles. Need I say that I was the one elected do the climb and sit? The tower itself was just 3 or 4 platforms attached to telephone poles. The wind was high, and the rain was wet, and I think we were swaying5 feet off center to both sides. A very different kind of 2crack the whip!" When all was done, the shot to Bahn Me Tuit was an even worse piece of crap, and that smartass, in his nice cozy office decided that the dipoles needed to be re-orientated back. My NCOIC politely told him to come on up and do the job himself because it was too dangerous. That Captain, to give him credit, came up the next day, without the rain, but the wind still fierce, and climbed that tower with me. Turns out, he did not know what we were doing, only that it could be done. He learned! In January, I moved down the hill to AFVN.
Just blew the picture up, for my own benefit and identification. The two buildings (Hootches) that are very close together are the AFVN site. Barracks are the lower one. Dayroom, offices and TV studio in the upper. On the far side of the upper one was where the Radio Station Van was. Our transmitter and antenna were down the mountain and just outside the gate to Camp Enari, 4th Infantry Division base.
For someone wanting to know, I believe that the mountain is an extinct volcano (See Ralph Forbes picture above). The top was horse-shoe shaped, the American had this side (East) and the ARVN's had the other. [NB: There was more to Guy's story, but I failed to get it off of Facebook and now can no longer find it. Apologies. Webmaster.]
From: Charlie Wishart
Was there a similar set-up on Monkey Mt. in Da Nang?
[Yes, at least as far as AFVN was concerned. Det 2, Da Nang was on Monkey Mt. Webmaster.]
Dragon Mountain - Peliku, Det 3
July 2017
(Taken from Facebook)
From: Wayne Jones
My father, CWO Wayne E. Jones, 18th Aviation Co., Otters, crashed on the other end of Dragon Mountain 17 August 1967 flying VFR on the QL 14 Highway trying to make it to Holloway from Cheo Reo. There were many other crash sites on that mountain, including a helicopter that scrambled on Mortar watch from Camp Enari and swung to wide in his orbit, crashing on the end of the mountain seen in this photo. This moutain's approaches were mined by the French, the Vietnamese and the US Forces.