Freedom Hill 327, Đà Nẵng 
Hawk Missile
Battery, Đà Nẵng - 1965
by Jerry West and Don
Poss
I just read
the Đà Nẵng:
Search & Destroy! 1965, by Don Poss, from Đà Nẵng in 1965. I spent
the night with Kilo Battery about five miles out from the Air Base. Later
I used to set out listening posts on Hill 327. -- Jerry West
 Jerry: My K-9,
Blackie, and I were working the west end of Đà Nẵng's only active runway
one night. The most intense firefight I ever saw took place on the west
side of Freedom Hill 327.
Green tracers from the north fired toward red tracers to the south. For
several minutes, weapons engaged like crazy in a distant-soundless
laser-like firefight. All the while, base runway blue lights pulsed as an
F-4 Phantom taxied for a rolling take-off.
Total silence and blackest night followed,
with an occasional pop-flare arcing and flaring the hillside. Puff showed
up and dropped about fifty-years worth of an enlisted-man's salary in a
bazillion dollars illumination support of million-candle-power
flares. I never heard what happened, and guessed that Charlie was trying
to take out the missile battery on Hill 327, which protected the base.
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