Introduction
This like many other projects started more or less by accident, a friend of mine asked me to write an article on the Guns of Vung Tau for a magazine that he was publishing.
I knew a little about the guns as I was stationed here during the war in 1968-69 with the Australian Army. I was posted as a driver at 1 ALSG located on the back beach Vung Tau. So I was more or less next door.
We were warned not to go crawling around the old fortifications. Of course being young, 10ft. tall and bullet proof that’s what we immediately did, we went exploring. That was the first time I saw the gun emplacements.
Now I’m back living in Vung Tau and have had the opportunity to assist in tours for a Charity here, so again I gained a little bit more knowledge.
So that is how I became interested, having started my research I soon realized that I did not know much at all and nobody else did for that matter, so after many weeks of research, I’ve collected as much information as possible (at this stage anyway) and then decided to it put into some readable form.
A great deal of it was in French and that had to be translated, because I do not speak/read French, I had to do it online. So some of it is not grammatically or technically correct, translated by machine. I have left most of it as is. Maybe later someone will do a better job than I have.
I’ve included a little bit of History to orientate the reader and help get feel of the place. There are many forts (gun emplacements on the Vung Tau Peninsular) one of them has been completely torn down to make way for a new road and I have not been able to locate any photos of it. So that leaves about twenty, and to be honest I don’t know how long they will last. Some of them are in bad need of some TLC
The Vung Tau Peoples Committee has done a marvelous job of restoring one of the Guns emplacements at Hem 444 (Street 444) and lately they have shown some interest in doing more. What a boost to the tourism of the town to have access to these wonderful sites.
The book is not really meant to be a book that you would sit down and read, it is more something that you can look at and talk to your friends about, maybe more important is that I have tried to save as much information as I can for histories sake, before it is lost forever.
Also being in electronic form it can continuously be updated as more information comes along.
If anybody has anything at all, any information whatsoever, please be so kind as to forward it to me on [email protected]
I hope you get some small satisfaction from what I have collected.
This like many other projects started more or less by accident, a friend of mine asked me to write an article on the Guns of Vung Tau for a magazine that he was publishing.
I knew a little about the guns as I was stationed here during the war in 1968-69 with the Australian Army. I was posted as a driver at 1 ALSG located on the back beach Vung Tau. So I was more or less next door.
We were warned not to go crawling around the old fortifications. Of course being young, 10ft. tall and bullet proof that’s what we immediately did, we went exploring. That was the first time I saw the gun emplacements.
Now I’m back living in Vung Tau and have had the opportunity to assist in tours for a Charity here, so again I gained a little bit more knowledge.
So that is how I became interested, having started my research I soon realized that I did not know much at all and nobody else did for that matter, so after many weeks of research, I’ve collected as much information as possible (at this stage anyway) and then decided to it put into some readable form.
A great deal of it was in French and that had to be translated, because I do not speak/read French, I had to do it online. So some of it is not grammatically or technically correct, translated by machine. I have left most of it as is. Maybe later someone will do a better job than I have.
I’ve included a little bit of History to orientate the reader and help get feel of the place. There are many forts (gun emplacements on the Vung Tau Peninsular) one of them has been completely torn down to make way for a new road and I have not been able to locate any photos of it. So that leaves about twenty, and to be honest I don’t know how long they will last. Some of them are in bad need of some TLC
The Vung Tau Peoples Committee has done a marvelous job of restoring one of the Guns emplacements at Hem 444 (Street 444) and lately they have shown some interest in doing more. What a boost to the tourism of the town to have access to these wonderful sites.
The book is not really meant to be a book that you would sit down and read, it is more something that you can look at and talk to your friends about, maybe more important is that I have tried to save as much information as I can for histories sake, before it is lost forever.
Also being in electronic form it can continuously be updated as more information comes along.
If anybody has anything at all, any information whatsoever, please be so kind as to forward it to me on [email protected]
I hope you get some small satisfaction from what I have collected.
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CONTACT As I stated in the introduction, this will be a "work in progress" and because it is stored in the digital format it can be continuously updated. So if you have any information, data, comments or images, please do not hesitate getting in contact with me. All you have to do is use the form on the right and I'll get back to you ASAP I have included in this form, the ability for viewers to up load files such as photos and documents. This can be accomplished simply by clicking on the Browse Button (on the right) to select the item on your computer that you may wish to send me.
This is a very important part in the ongoing quest for collecting as much information from all over the world as I can. |
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