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The Battle off Dong Hoi
By Elden G. Miller - Updated 4-19-2001
This is an eyewitness account of one day in the life of the USS Sterett DLG-31. All information is based upon personal recollections of crewmembers and should not be construed as an official account of the engagement.
On 6 April 1972, President Richard Nixon announced that as a result of increased North Vietnamese aggression across the demilitarized zone, he was ordering Navy ships to strike military targets north of the 59th parallel. Nearly every available gunfire support ship in the pacific fleet was to join in the fight. Many ships from the Atlantic were also dispatched to the Gulf of Tonkin to join in the operations.
On April 19, Sterett was at her normal station in the northern part of the Gulf of Tonkin and received orders to head south and provide anti-air support for a gun-line mission near Dong Hoi, just north of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) near Dong Hoi. Prior to April 19, air strikes had reportedly softened up the area and intelligence sources suggested that no viable enemy aircraft remained in the area.
Sterett rendezvoused with the light cruiser Oklahoma City (CLG-5), the destroyer Higbee (DD-806) and destroyer Lloyd Thomas (DD-764). Sterett launched her LAMPS helicopter, to operate as an airborne spotter for the gunfire mission.
At 1600 Oklahoma City, Higbee and Lloyd Thomas began their gun run against targets in the vicinity of Dong Hoi. The first pass was from north to south, parallel to the coast with a return leg back towards the north. Upon commencing their run, all three ships started to receive heavy counter fire from shore batteries. No hits were experienced on Oklahoma City, Higbee or Lloyd Thomas but many shells appeared to bracket the ships. Oklahoma City reported shrapnel damage to her superstructure from some of the near hits.
Also shortly after the task group arrived off shore, several air targets were detected amongst the mountains. A single MiG 17 came out of the mountains and headed for the USS Higbee and dropped a single 250 pound bomb. It was a near miss with no damage.
Sterett had two missiles on the rails and a single Terrier missile was launched towards the MiG and missed. Sterett then fired the remaining missile and downed the MiG.
Higbee had experienced a hot round in her "Mount 52" after gun mount and the mount had been evacuated just prior to the MiG''s second pass which resulted in a single 250-pound bomb hitting at the base of the vacated 5-inch gun mount. The bomb penetrated the weather deck and caused the ready ammunition stored below to explode and destroy the gun mount. Higbee experienced only four injuries and no loss of life.
After the first MiG started it- first bomb run, a second MiG exited the mountains and executed a 180-degree turn and headed back into the mountains. Sterett fired two missiles at this MiG and assumed a "kill" when the missile and plane disapeared from radar simultaneously.
Higbee, Oklahoma City and Lloyd Thomas exited the area to the northeast, accompanied by the Sterett. Sterett was roughly paralleling Higbee- course and making oblique course changes as they headed away from the battle area to keep Sterett''s forward missile main battery unmasked.Sterett was tracking a couple of small high-speed surface tracks during this exit. As they were observing one of the tracks vertical video separation was noted. At the same time Sterett detected an electronic signature identified as a Russian SS-N-2 Styx missile. Sterett immediately fired a salvo of two Terrier missiles at the suspected Styx missile. Following the detonation of Sterett''s Terrier, the missile target disappeared from radar and the ECM signature signal ceased signifying a kill.
Sterett- gun crews had so far been mere spectators during the action that day. Two surface targets were paralleling Sterett''s course and speed. The Sterett- aft mounted 5" 54 mount made short work of the surface targets and they to disappeared from radar.
Following the battle group''s departure from the Dong Hoi area the skies over Dong Hoi were filled with Navy and Air Force planes that were rushed to the scene from aircraft carriers of the Seventh Fleet on Yankee Station and from bases in Thailand.
Copyright 1998 Elden G. Miller
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THE BATTLE OF DONG HOI - VIET NAM - 19 APRIL 1972
Acts of incredible bravery were not uncommon for sailors in Vietnam. Yet at times, their important contributions have been overshadowed by larger forces serving "in-country" during the war. Although 1972 saw the Vietnam War on the steady decline for U.S. forces, the U.S. Navy''s role there was still paramount.
USS Higbee DD 806 became the first U.S. naval vessel attacked by enemy MiG-17s, one of which dropped a bomb on the destroyer''s stern, wounding four sailors.
"MIG coming! MIG coming!
DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) - "MIG coming! MIG coming!" yelled the lookout and seconds later the after deck of the destroyer Higbee was aflame. The North Vietnamese jet dropped a 250 pound bomb onto the deck of the destroyer, wounding four seamen and destroying a gun mount that housed two 5 inch guns.
The U.S. Command said at least three enemy jets attacked an American task force in the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of North Vietnam late Wednesday afternoon. The command said one of the planes was shot down, two enemy torpedo boats were believed sunk and shrapnel from shore battery fire caused minor damage on the cruiser Oklahoma City, the flagship of the 7th Fleet.
Capt. Ronald Zuilkoski, skipper of the Higbee, said the MIG attacked his ship at least twice before the bomb hit the deck. "In the first two passes, bombs fell left and right of the ship," he said, "but on the third try one hit the deck and exploded under the mount. She flew so low over the deck that you could see everything."
Luckily the gun mount was empty, the 12 man gun crew having been ordered out while a round stuck in one of the barrels (hang fire) was being hosed down to keep it from exploding. But three men in the ammunition storage compartment under the mount were wounded. Other men pulled them out as the ammunition began to explode. The exploding ammunition ripped open a large section in the Higbee''s left side. Flames and clouds of black smoke from leaking oil engulfed the deck as the crew fought the fire.
Another warning sounded: "Missile! Missile homing in!" "We heard the missile warning, but we had to stay with the fire or we would have lost the ship," said Hull Tender 2nd Class John J O''Brien, 40 of Camden, NJ "It was fantastic - everyone worked together. They did what they were trained to do even though too much happened at one time - flames were every where."
John T. Allardyce, 26, another Hull Tender 2nd Class, from Allentown, Pa., was up forward." I felt the bomb hit," he said. "It shook the boat forward and then I heard the call for help from O''Brien''s section in the rear." Allardyce said the bomb explosion damaged the water (fire main) system, "but we managed some how to get the thing under control." "The guys really worked together," said Allardyce. "You''d call for one man to come and help and two would show up."
The Higbee entered DA Nang harbor early today. It''s after deck looked like a junkyard floating in a pool of dirty oil. It tied up alongside the repair ship Hector and near the destroyer USS Buchanan DDG 14 which the U.S. Command said was damaged by shore fire Monday.
To see a map of the Battle Area click here
Photo''s courtesey of Dan Garcia, Dan took these pictures when the ship he was on the USS Whipple DE 1062 was along side the Higbee at Da Nang Viet Nam, April 1972
Life is a comedy