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I read some of it when reading citations about MOH awards. Do love those Corsairs.
 
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Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner were B.A.
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My brother served on the Jesse L Brown so I became familiar with the story.
No offense to Doris Miller, but I think the carrier should have been named after Brown. Both were deserving, but I think as the first black Naval Aviator Brown’s name belongs on a carrier.
 
I know some guys in the Northeast USNR community who met Hudner over the years and all
of them said it was one of their personal highlights as he was both humble and easy to talk to.
 
Bearcat, Corsair, Skyraider and Mig. Base nickname "Naked Fanny" and flight line was full of these. Invert Invert bring me home to Naked Fanny twenty some years after Korea. Also called the last all prop AFB.:cool:
 

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I remember this story and now it's a movie! "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" watch the trailer looks good.:popcorn1:
 
AF6872 said:
I remember this story and now it's a movie! "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" watch the trailer looks good.:popcorn1:
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Need more info on that film. Didn't US military personnel in South Vietnam have relatively plentiful amounts of beer supplied through normal channels? Plus purchases off base ("the ville")?
 
Day-Tripper said:
Need more info on that film. Didn't US military personnel in South Vietnam have relatively plentiful amounts of beer supplied through normal channels? Plus purchases off base ("the ville")?
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Getting off base on Liberty for us was a very once in a blue moon type of thing. And we were only about two miles from the danang airbase.

we could and did hitch a ride to dog patch but there was not a whole lot there.

beer at night in Wynn Hall was normally two beers. At first two warm beers. Later in my tour two cold beers. I am sure there were 3x nights but if I remember correctly fairly rare,

most of our binge drinking when it happened was with the bottles of booze snuck back into camp. And even those times it was not often.
 
Small Team Bacsi said:
Getting off base on Liberty for us was a very once in a blue moon type of thing. And we were only about two miles from the danang airbase.

we could and did hitch a ride to dog patch but there was not a whole lot there.

beer at night in Wynn Hall was normally two beers. At first two warm beers. Later in my tour two cold beers. I am sure there were 3x nights but if I remember correctly fairly rare,

most of our binge drinking when it happened was with the bottles of booze snuck back into camp. And even those times it was not often.
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Your referencing "liberty" and Danang seems to me that you were either a Marine or a sailor. Some of those Army bases in South Vietnam (closer to Saigon, in the south) were huge, virtual small cities. Might they have had a better set of off-duty arrangements for the GIs? Not to mention Air Force. I'm just going from books, movies, articles, etc. having been born during the war itself. Except for the Tet Offensive, being stationed in Saigon wasn't too bad of a deal, I always thought.
 
Day-Tripper said:
Your referencing "liberty" and Danang seems to me that you were either a Marine or a sailor. Some of those Army bases in South Vietnam (closer to Saigon, in the south) were huge, virtual small cities. Might they have had a better set of off-duty arrangements for the GIs? Not to mention Air Force. I'm just going from books, movies, articles, etc. having been born during the war itself. Except for the Tet Offensive, being stationed in Saigon wasn't too bad of a deal, I always thought.
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I agree.

As far as VN, where you served, what you did, who you did it with, and when , made a great difference between tours.

And I should have added that when any of my Marines wanted to really live it up in luxury and eat well they would sneak on down to the Airbase and visit someone they knew in the USAF.
 
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