CUTTERS AND SUPPORT STAFF

POINT WHITE REUNION AUGUST 16, 2003

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Below are pictures of the village of Cat Lo located up a small river and the home of USCG Division-13 and pictures of Vung Tau a larger town about 15 miles down the road from Cat Lo. Both Cat Lo and Vung Tau were located on the coast of Central Vietnam. Cat Lo was not only  home for the nine cutters of USCG Division-13, but  also home for several Navy Swift boats, Navy PBR's and  Navy Air Cushion craft. Vung Tau had a large harbor at the mouth of the Saigon River where U.S. cargo ships would anchored and wait for a spot to open up in Saigon so they could go up river and off load their cargo.  It was not uncommon for ten to fifteen ships to be anchored in Vung Tau harbor at any one time. Vung Tau was also the in country REST and RELAXATION (R & R) center for Vietnam and the liberty town for Division-13. Every person was supposed to get two weeks of R & R for each year in Vietnam. This was not always the case. Vung Tau was also the R & R center for the Viet Cong so there was very few problems there.  Many of the Bars in Vung Tau were named after USA towns, cities and other familiar places to try and make the U.S. troops feel at home.  Ask someone who was there what Saigon Tea is.


Arrive at Cat Lo
(Weitzel)
(1)

 


Cutters at
Cat Lo (Weitzel)

(2)


Cat Lo base bar
(Mattie)
(3)


Base Huts (Mattie)
(4)

 


Vung Tau bar
(Sampont)
(5)

 


Arriving Cat Lo (Weitzel)
(6)


Division-13 Club to the left (Lough)
(7)


Front Beach (Lough)

(8)
 


Palm Beach (Lough)

(9)


R & R Center entrance Vung Tau (Lough)
(10)


R & R Center patio Vung Tau (Lough)
(11)


R & R Center Vung Tau patio (Lough)
(12)


Scared cows of
Cat Lo (Lough)
(13)


Street in Vung Tau
(Lough)
(14)


Vung Tau R & R Center (Lough)
(15)


Market day in Vung Tau
(Lough)

(16)


Another Market day in Vung Tau (Lough)
(18)


Down Town Cat Lo Village
(Paterson)
(19)


Cat Lo village as seen from where the nine 82 foot Cutters tied up.
(Patterson)
(20)


Vietnamese outhouse between where the cutters tied up and the base. They would crouch and do their business and tides would be the flush. Some of the Point Kennedy crew tried to blow it up once but drunk as they were they did not take into account that the Grenades would just fall through the stalls onto the beach and blow crap all over everything. Now maybe you can understand why things went the way they did in Vietnam
(Patterson)
(21)

 


Division-13 Head Quarters at Cat Lo
(Paterson)
(22)

 


Back of Division-13 Head Quarters Cat Lo
(Patterson)
(23)
 


Pier where Cutters tied up at Cat Lo
(Patterson)
(24)

 

         
           
           
           
           

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