Mike Bass - C Model Gunship Door Gunner

     Bill Brady relates that he has found his door gunner, Mike Bass, and thanks everyone for their help. Carter Davis, Bill Brady and Mike Fiske, among others, have been on the lookout for Mike for quite a while now. They did not remember his first name but remembered that he was shot in the foot and evacuated in February 1968 while serving as a C Model gunship door gunner.  Welcome Home Mike.


     Carter is still looking for his door gunner, Black, who was wounded and evacuated to Japan on May 7, 1968.  No one recalls Blacks’ first name but here’s hoping  that they can find Black or at least account for him. When last seen, Black was at the aid station on Hawk Hill and had suffered a severe wound to his shoulder from  .51 caliber machine gun fire.

Randolph Michael Bass

05/27/10 at 01:24 PM

Comments:

I arrived in RVN in Oct ,1967 with 14th avn group, then volunteered for c troop 7/17 and moved to Chu Lai where I served as crew chief/door gunner, in Feb 1967 at the start of the TET offensive, I was wounded, the gunner was Bill Brady that day. I was the sent to Ft Campbell Ky to the hospital. I am now retired and live in Ky and through the blue ghost i was reunited with Bill Brady and Mikel Fisk. Thanks for the help.

Vietnam War Combat Assault Tribute to Aviation 1971

Video by John Wolf, Company D, 1/20th Infantry, Americal Division, 1970-71

Men of Co C 3 21 196th

Video by Jesse Brooks, C/3/21, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, 1968-69.
Showing mostly men of Company C. A few others are shown also to relate to the area and time.
Glad most made it home.Remember those that Gave All !! Welcome home to ALL.
Remember today's military men and women of all branches.

Service Memories 1966-88

Bob Duffy, Carter Davis on Hawk Hill in 1968. C- Model 737, "Hog"

Aircraft 66-0737
This is the aircraft I was flying on 5 May 68 when I was shot in the left foot at Western Valley near LZ Center.

Photos by Carter Davis, Blue Ghosts 1967-68. Carter was an original Blue Ghost who deployed to RVN aboard the USNS General Nelson M. Walker. He was from Parma, Missouri and served as a crew chief/ door gunner on a UH-1C gunship. On May 5, 1968, in combat operations near Landing Zone Center, Carter and his door gunner, SP5 Black, were hit by .51 caliber machine gun fire and wounded. Both were medically evacuated to Japan. His pilot was Cpt. Ron Grooms, the gun platoon leader. These images span the twenty two years of Carters' service in the US Army.

Alex Hernandez

Photos from Alex Hernandez, Blue Ghost 1972