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 or Albert Moore 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 | |
| 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 - 2nd Report says that this was the "Old Armory" |
| 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 | Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings |
| 87 | Construction Battalion Tents (later Recreation Fields) Seabees that built Dong Tam's buildings |
| 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 |