Memory Joggers From Darryl Petersen
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Darryl worked with our "deliverables" - bombs. A munitions handler who spent his tour in the bomb storage area, Darryl was at Takhli from Jan '66 to Jan '67.|
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This is the Vientai Hotel in Bangkok. Darryl (on left) started his tour at the same place I did. I stayed here my first night in Thailand, waiting for the C-130 to take me upcountry. |
Darryl soon found when he arrived at Takhli (his photo of the market here) that it was a pretty small rural community. |
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Darryl soon got into his work. Not a good place to hear someone say "Oops"! There were big bombs (3000 pounders). |
And not so big bombs (750s here). But either size delivered by the 355th could wreak havoc. |
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Darryl's hootch, or more properly, Darryl and a whole bunch of other guy's hootch, sometimes they were crowded, sometimes almost empty, depending on rotations. |
Some of the earliest hootches on Takhli. These were behind Bldg 1 (600) and to the side of Bldg 2, the green building seen on the right here. It would become the NCO & Airman's Club. |
