Monkey Mountain, Danang, Vietnam

I was in Danang for resupply when my group chief got an urgent call that the Comm site on top of Monkey Mountain went off the air 'cause the air conditioning went down. I was unfortunate enough to have not gotten out of the shop fast enough and got tagged to go fix it. I hated to go up because it was always foggy near the top, and very dangerous to drive. Long story short....the AC crashed because of a small device known as a "Grasshopper" fuse.


I knew that the closest replacement was at the airbase, not a trip I wanted to make with night falling.. I noticed that the fuse body looked a little like the P-38 can opener.

I had on my dog-tag chain. After installing the P-38 into the fuseholder, I restarted the unit, restarted the comm gear, and left. To my knowledge, we never had another service call up there.

"We have done so much with so little for so long that we can anything with nothing forever"

Ron Robertson
U.S. Navy Seabees......NAVSUPPACT, Danang, RVN

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View of Monkey Mountain From Hill 327

I loved that drive up Monkey Mountain. It was about 2000 feet high and out in the Pacific on the edge of Danang. Great views of China Beach, Danang, Hai Van Pass, and the South China Sea.

There was a tail of an airplane sticking out of the side of the mountain which you saw when you rounded one of the hairpin turns going up the mountain.  I always wondered about the story.  And thanks to old guys putting stories on the internet, here it is.  Pretty good yarn.

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Craig Hullinger 66

Internet Scoop on Monkey Mountain

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