3 more airwing stories

      All three of these happened between Nov. 1966 and June 1968  I was having enough fun to extend once. We had been at Danang for awhile when we got word that charley had a sniper at the end of the airstrip taking shots at our planes as they come and go with a rifle. We couldn't tell if he hit ours or not but the security M.P.s left him alone for a long time because none our units had much problem with him. We figured he had a very cushey job shooting at our planes but not hitting anything and we could hear his shots at night when it was real quiet. But it all came to a head with the new commander arriving from the states and hearing of this, can't hit a thing sniper, being allowed to stay. The new commander ordered his M.P.s to get the man out of there and they did very quickly but charley replaced him almost immediately.  The new guy hit the first six planes to fly over that we knew of and we patched the planes. From then on the M.P.s kept the sniper out of the fly way. Another happening we had was our hangar shaking enough to lose a window every so often. The ground didn"t shake but the hangar did so we would step outside if we were working inside at the time. This went on for more than a week a time and then the first time it happened the stars and stripes came out and informed us the New Jersey was off shore firing sixteen inch diameter shells over us at targets inland.  The next time it happened  it went on that same amount of time. The stars and stripes came out a week later saying the Army had 16 inch gun implacements in place and firing across the valley from us. So each time we wondered what was causing the shaking only to find out in the stars and stripes a week later it was just us fighting a war.                          Thanks again L/cpl Dan Rawstern

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