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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 ...
[85] [87] This incident and the 11 August 1966 friendly fire incident involving Point Welcome caused several procedures for the identification of naval vessels by U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine and U.S. Air Force aircrews to change. [70]
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 ...
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. Explosives are ...
[17] [18] Point Welcome struck the trawler twice with 81-millimeter rounds. [15] The trawler then grounded 50 yards off the mouth of the Tha Cau River at 0210. [ 15 ] At 0220, the North Vietnamese tried to scuttle their ship and failed but a second attempt at 0235 succeeded in destroying the vessel in a 500-foot fireball. [ 19 ]
suggest specifying what type of aircraft strafed Point Welcome rather than just providing their numbers, ie B-57 Canberra tactical bomber and F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber Done; suggest severely damaged and despite nine 5 to 9 inch (13 to 23 cm) wide holes in the main deck, the hull was undamaged Done
Evidence showed later during a board of inquiry that it was a friendly fire incident involving U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy aircraft mistaking the ships for enemy targets. [ 19 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] This incident and the 11 August 1966 friendly fire incident involving Point Welcome caused several procedures for the identification of naval vessels by ...
The Gemini 10 spacecraft landed within sight of the prime recovery ship, the amphibious assault ship USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7), some 3 miles (4.8 km) from the planned landing point, at 4:07 p.m. [47] In Geneva , Switzerland, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to a treaty article that would ban any nation from claiming sovereignty over ...