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Aft view of the bridge of Point Welcome after the friendly fire incident of 11 August 1966. Point Welcome was about three-quarters of a mile south of the 17th parallel, in the limits of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), [20] when she was attacked in the pre-dawn hours of 11 August 1966 by three U.S. Air Force aircraft while on patrol in ...
Point Welcome was patrolling Area 1A1 immediately south of the DMZ in the early morning hours of 11 August 1966. At 03:40 the cutter was illuminated by a U.S. Air Force forward air controller (FAC) who mistook her for an enemy vessel.
Richard H. Patterson (November 6, 1931 – April 12, 2010) was a chief petty officer in the United States Coast Guard, decorated for saving the crew of his vessel, USCGC Point Welcome after the skipper and executive officer became casualties during a 1966 friendly fire attack, in Vietnam. [2] [3] Patterson was born in 1931 and grew up in ...
Kyōichi Sawada (沢田 教一, Sawada Kyōichi, February 22, 1936, – October 28, 1970) was a Japanese photographer with United Press International who received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. Two of these photographs were selected as "World Press Photos of the Year" in 1965 ...
The boy would tip them off to IEDs and occasionally brought them fresh-baked bread. One day, as Martz’s platoon walked a routine patrol, the boy yanked a trigger wire from a hidden position. Whether he had been a secret enemy all along or whether some incident had turned him against the Americans are questions Martz wrestles with to this day.
After weeks of icy temperatures in the region, Wednesday night felt comparatively balmy. Jimmy Mazel, 17, and his girlfriend decided to eat dinner at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Virginia.
SS Green Hill Park, 1945 incident in Vancouver similar to El Estero Cádiz Explosion , 18 August 1947, in mines and torpedoes depot, ca. 150 killed and large part of the city destroyed Mitholz explosion , Switzerland , an underground ammunition depot partially exploded on 19 December 1947, destroying the village and killing 9.
In fiction, August 19, 1966, is the date of a nuclear war in the 1960 film The Time Machine, an adaptation of the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells. Remaining in London, the film's hero (played by Rod Taylor ) departs from December 31, 1899, witnessing future wars as he stops at September 13, 1917, then June 19, 1940, until getting ...