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To: doorgunner69
I don't think I ever saw a 750#er we were using 250 and 500#ers. This is an aerial photo I took of our flight line at Nam Phong, Thailand. Also known as the Rose Garden.

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And a picture of my living quarters before the Seabees built our Mash Type quarters.

Rose Garden - Nam Phong Thialand

17 posted on 05/31/2012 7:20:05 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Red_Devil 232
I don't think I ever saw a 750#er we were using 250 and 500#ers.

Word was, we had sold them to the Brits, and then ended up buying them back when we stated going through so much ordnance 1967. Bought them back at a loss of course.

They were very fat, could not get a grip like you could on the smaller stuff with a slender nose.

On looking at that pic again, what I thought was an unbroken revetment does have a gap. Man, without revetments, you sure look exposed there in Nam Phong. We had to have them of course. I have some pics I took of the aftermath of 122mm hits and the burned up birds, but no damage outside of those two.

18 posted on 05/31/2012 7:41:07 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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