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Bob Havens

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His brief stop in Saigon was eye-opening, to say the least, but Bob Havens was going on to a secret air base in Thailand. No one knew what the Navy unit was doing in the middle of the jungle, but it was disrupting enemy movements on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. (8:07)

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Bob Havens salutes the memory of Dennis Anderson, a Navy pilot who was among Observations Squadron 67's first casualties. There are two stories, one funny and one poignant. (3:02)

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During the battle of Khe Sanh, there was confusion about the enemy forces besieging the Marines there. Bob Havens was part of a clandestine Navy unit placing listening devices on the Ho Chi Minh trail and this outfit was brought in to gather intelligence. (3:14)

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Truck kills increased fourfold on the Ho Chi Minh Trail after Bob Havens secret Navy squadron dropped listening devices to monitor the movement. It was top secret work, and when the unit was disbanded, the men were scattered through the service so they couldn't talk about it. (3:26)

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He was in the Navy, but it wasn't until the last few months of his enlistment that Bob Havens actually served on a ship, and that ship was tied up in Long Beach. He turned down reenlistment and tried to go back to college, but instead lucked into a rewarding career working with children. (3:47)

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Bob Havens recalls a sweet story about seeing Raquel Welch at a Bob Hope show during the Vietnam war, and then meeting her twenty years later. Then, he has some observations on his experience in that war. (4:57)

Bob Hayes

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He was blessed with a foster mother who took care of him, but Bob Hayes was a rebel who dropped out of high school to join the Air Force. That didn't work out, but he did join the Marines, which straightened him right out. (4:52)

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His first assignment in Vietnam was guarding the perimeter of the airport in Da Nang, but Bob Hayes did not get along with his staff sergeant. This led to a threat, which led to a hearing in which he was given a choice, the brig or reassignment to the most dangerous Marine outfit in the country. (10:31)

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When the thing popped out of the ground, Bob Hayes didn't know what it was. It was a Bouncing Betty mine and he was lucky it failed to detonate. The mines in his area were plentiful and deadly, and when one killed a Marine near a village, one of the men took out his frustrations on a civilian. (6:39)

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After Bob Hayes had been in Vietnam for a while, he was sent to the Philippines for jungle survival training. It was difficult but he enjoyed parts of it. Then it was back to the Mekong Delta, where the conditions were tough. (4:23)