Ron Bleac Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 I thought this was an extremely interesting find. The following is an audio recording of US ground and air radio communications. It was recorded at some point during the Vietnam war and the video description doesn't mention when. All it mentions is that a ground unit (Recon Team Colorado) is being chased by a large unit of NVA that would like nothing more but to kill every single one of them. RT Colorado is supported by RT Hawaii, along with multiple air units on station that are trying to give Colorado enough covering fire to allow them to disengage from the running battle. A lot of the communication is fuzzy, but there is some very interesting and some heartbreaking stuff in there. At one point, one of Colorado's men (David Mixter) pushes another man (identified as Michel) out of the way of an NVA RPG man, sacrificing his own life to save Mitchel. A lot of the communication is very fuzzy and largely unintelligible, but keep in mind that we are talking 60s-70s kit here.Either way, it's very interesting to listen to. As a note, some of the units you hear speaking over eachother aren't actually hearing eachother. What you are hearing is the viewpoint of the recording station, somewhere (I think) on a US Navy ship or on a ground station somewhere in Vietnam. These are communications between 6 or so units, between 5 to 40 men./>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEGWISd6jYs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aryte Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Holy crap. This is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bleac Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 Another good one.[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXYLM6-edTk&feature=share&list=UUfbNNRgeh35scnFeBowrlVAUS air controller and pilot co-ordinating to drop napalm and high explosives on VC positions on a jungle road, somewhere in Vietnam. You can actually hear the bombs hitting the targets, giving some idea of the proximity of the controller. Then you hear the gunfire ramp up as the VC respond to the attack with whatever weapons available, targeting both the aircraft peeling off and any other targets they might see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Abrams Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 You know... The radios a made had Vietnam radio cons going from transport/planning to being attacked to callin air support and evac. It fell out of favor for the lockon title sound... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
