Navy Compound at Dong Tam circa 1968

Please help us identify the buildings in the Navy’s side of Dong Tam or, if we’ve filled in descriptions and you believe they are erroneous, please email Mike Harris at his email address below or Albert Moore (mrfa35@outlook.com) with what you believe to be the correct descriptions.

No.	Description of Building
1	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
2	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
3	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
4	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
5	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
6	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
7	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
8	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
9	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
10	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
11	Bunker, Also B
12	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
13	Enlisted Housing (Hooch) Showers between 13 and 14
14	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
15	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
16	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
17	Four or Six Hole Crapper
18	Housing (Filipino Steward's Hooch)
19	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
20	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
21	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
22	Bunker
23	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
24	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
25	Vehicle Repair Facility
26	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
27	Shore Patrol Hooch
28	Enlisted Housing (Snipe's and Shipfitter's Hooch)
29	Chow Hall
30	Generator Shed (Three 175 KVA units in parallel) Water tower north of 30
31	Officer's Club
32	Bunker
33	Four or Six Hole Crapper
34	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
35	Soda Fountain/Ice Cream Shop
36	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
37	Enlisted Housing (Snipe's and Shipfitter's Hooch)
38	Mess Hall Storage
39
40	Enlisted Men's Club
41	Chief Petty Officer's Club
42	Acey Duecy Club
43
44
45	Personnel Office or Sick Bay
46	Chapel
47	AB8AZ "The Voice of The Delta" MARS Radio Station / Navy Communications Center --- Personnel Office for River Assault Flotilla One
48	Base Maintenance Facility (CPO Club??)
49	Cook's Hooch
50	Gunner's Mates Hooch
51	Enlisted Housing (Snipe's and Shipfitter's Hooch)
52	LCDR Stone's Command Office
53	CBMU-302 NavCat 7 Enlisted Barracks
54
55
56
57	Seawolf Officer's Hooch
58	Navy Post Office
59	SEAL Team Hootch  (most SEALS were at nearby MyTho)
60
61	Showers
62	Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
63	Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
64	C/O Quarters and Communications Bunker or Seawolf Officer's Hooch??
65	HQ/Administration
66	CBMU-302 Enlisted Hooches
67
68	Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
69	Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
70	Seawolf Enlisted Hooch
71	CBMU-302 Enlisted Hooches
72	Enlisted Housing (Hooch)
73	Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
74	Officers Quarters with adjacent bunker
75	Seawolf Enlisted Hooch
76	9th Infantry MARS Station - Also reported to be the "Old Armory" with 1/2 used as CBMU-302 Storage & Workshop
77	Old 2 1/2 ton truck van body with Div Arty Metro equipment and Plotting/Recording Central - Later removed for USO stage
78	Div Arty Octagon tent used by Metro NCOIC/Warrant Officer - Later removed for USO stage
79	Metro Div Arty - 10KW Generator
80	Div Arty Metro Rawin set - AN/GMD-1 (Automatic tracking radio receiver for balloons) - Brought over from Ft. Riley, KS by troopship to Vung Tau. Then to Camp Bear Cat before deployment to Dong Tam. Orders read: "Detached Service to "A" Btry, 3/34th Arty Bn for Administration".  Information in #'s 77-82 submitted by CWO4 George Carlstrom, Jr., Commander of 9th Div Arty Metro Station circa 1968 (USA Ret.)
81	Store room for Calcium Chloride Canisters to make Hydrogen for Div Arty Weather Balloons - Paint Shack
82	Inflation tent for Div Arty Weather Balloons. - Paint Shack
83	Two large tents.  Nearest was Supply Tent.  Further side of this one was one of two Main Personnel Tents (6 men). - Beverage cooler - Maybe Seabee Quarters later on. Information received from John Lambe, U.S. Army Div Arty Weather Balloon Section used for Ballistic Firing Corrections on the 105-8" guns - Feb 68 to July 68 Near side of nearest large tent is : 1. Thatched hut built to accommodate an old ice cooler we used for beer & pop called it the "Commo Bar". 2. Single stall Crapper (reduced to rubble by a mortar hit & rebuilt in record time). 3. Between these two structures was the piss-tube.
84	Second Personnel tent.  Nearest side of this tent was another smaller tent.  The smaller one was occupied by (2) EOD personnel - Maybe Seabee Quarters later on.
85	Four or Six Hole Crapper
86	CBMU-302 Mechanics Shop (or possibly 87)
87	CBMU-302 Mechanics Shop (or possibly 86)
88	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
89	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
90	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
91	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
92	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
93	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
94	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
95	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
96	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
97	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
98	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
99	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
100	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
101	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
102	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
103	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
104	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
105	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
106	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
107	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
108	Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings
109	Ammo Bunker
110	Ammo Bunker
111	Ammo Bunker
112	Ammo Bunker
113	Ammo Bunker
114	Ammo Bunker
115	Ammo Bunker