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7 unusual facts about Da Nang


Battle of Nam Dong

Nam Dong is situated 32 miles west of Da Nang in a valley near the Laotian border; it was manned by South Vietnamese personnel with American and Australian advisers, and served as a major thorn in the side of local Vietcong militants.

Daughter from Danang

Daughter from Đà Nẵng is a 2002 documentary film about an Amerasian, Heidi Bub (a.k.a. Mai Thi Hiep), born on December 10, 1968, in Danang in southern Vietnam, one of the children brought to the United States from Vietnam in 1975 during "Operation Babylift" at the end of the Vietnam War.

East Sea Campaign

Having achieved their initial objective, the North Vietnamese naval command sent out the transport ship T641, to carry all the captured South Vietnamese soldiers back to Da Nang.

Jim Gilchrist

He was stationed at a site that is one hundred miles North of Da Nang, which was just below the Demilitarized Zone.

Orly Air Base

In 1954 USAF C-124 transports assisted the French by airlifting 500 paratroop/commandos and their equipment to Indochina, landing at Da Nang's Tourane Airfield.

Papillon Soo Soo

She is also well known for playing the role of the Da Nang hooker who uttered the famous "Hey baby, you got girlfriend Vietnam? Me so horny. Me love you long time," and "Me sucky sucky" lines in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which continues to be referenced in popular culture and was sampled by both rap group 2 Live Crew and solo rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot in their respective songs "Me So Horny" and "Baby Got Back".

Thái Phiên

After the 1945 August Revolution, the Việt Minh briefly renamed the city of Tourane after Thai Phien, to commemorate his role in the 1916 uprising.


Alfred M. Gray, Jr.

In September 1967, Gray was reassigned to the III Marine Amphibious Force in Da Nang where he commanded the 1st Radio Battalion elements throughout I Corps until February 1968.

Frank Palmos

While reporting he accompanied 33 land sea and air missions from bases in Da Nang, Saigon and Nha Trang.

Operation Babylift

Daughter from Đà Nẵng is a 2002 award-winning documentary film about an Amerasian woman who returns to visit her biological family in Đà Nẵng, Vietnam after 22 years of separation and living in the United States, having been taken out of Vietnam as a child in Operation Babylift.

Peter D. Williams

Williams then flew the F-8 Crusader at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii for two years before joining VMF(AW)-235, flying the F-8E Crusader from Da Nang in the Republic of Vietnam.

Phạm Hùng Dũng

Phạm Hùng Dũng (born on 28 September 1978 in Đà Nẵng, Vietnam) is a retired Vietnamese football player.

William Tuohy

He was there when the United States began bombing North Vietnam, and when the first US combat troops came ashore at Da Nang.


see also

1st Combat Engineer Battalion

During the Vietnam War the 1st Engineer Battalion supported 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions of the 1st 5th and 7th Marines in combat operations from July 1965 through April 1971, operating from Qui-Nhon, Chu-Lai and Da-Nang, the most famous of which was Operation "Starlight" conducted August 1965 where Sgt. Robert E. O'Malley was awarded the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War.

Non Nước

Non Nước Village, marble cutter village and caves near the beach in Da Nang.

The Gingers

The name of the Gingers' debut EP references Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, in which a prostitute in Da Nang propositions a soldier, asking "Hey, you got girlfriend Vietnam? Me so horny. Me love you long time."