Marble Mountain by junge1

Photography • Landscape • posted on Feb 16, 2014

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Marble Mountain is a cluster of five marble and limestone hills. They are located in Ngu Hanh Son Ward, southeast of Danang. While stationed at the Danang AB in 1966-67, Marble Mountain was one of three locations we could easily identify from the base. The other were Monkey Mountain and Hill 327 which was known as 'Freedom Hill'. The US Marines had a helicopter facility at Marble Mountain and there was always hostile VC activity, especially at night. Marble Mountain was between the base and China Beach and it was close enough for us to hear and see the Douglas AC-47D "Spooky' gun ships in action. I did not realize that the hills were overgrown. This picture was taken on 22 August 2012, Sig...

Comments (24)

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kgb224

11:01AM | Sun, 16 February 2014

Superb capture my friend. God bless.

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drifterlee

11:11AM | Sun, 16 February 2014

Beautiful temple and shot!

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nefertiabet

11:59AM | Sun, 16 February 2014

Nice shot and interessting info Sig.!!!

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Juliette.Gribnau

12:05PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

most beautiful

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emmecielle

12:15PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

Excellent capture and interesting info. :)

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Faemike55

12:33PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

Cool photo and great bit of history

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jayfar

12:41PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

A nice shot but spoilt by the yellow thing Sig.

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bazza

1:28PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

Lovely capture of this Mountain and buildings Sig that yellow thing does look out of place whatever it is.. A flag maybe?

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junge1

4:05PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

I don't know what that 'yellow thing' is, but this shot was taken out of a moving mini bus while it was raining, and they weren't stopping for me to take a picture! Sorry!!

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sandra46

4:40PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

AMAZING WORK!

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flavia49

6:02PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

fantastic

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tigertim

6:07PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

Plenty of cover then for the sneaky VC's... watching the Spookies would have been interesting. That lift/stairwell structure to get to the temple? looks interesting as well!

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casmindo

6:50PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

How things have changed

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jocko500

10:29PM | Sun, 16 February 2014

lot of history here . cool looking

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starship64

12:15AM | Mon, 17 February 2014

Fantastic shot.

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RaykesPictures

1:47AM | Mon, 17 February 2014

So a place with a history. Makes it a special shot!

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farmerC

4:12AM | Mon, 17 February 2014

Shining shot.

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dakotabluemoon

6:58AM | Mon, 17 February 2014

Awesome image here.

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illkirch

10:41AM | Mon, 17 February 2014

Interesting shot

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ontar1

11:40AM | Mon, 17 February 2014

Cool!

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Richardphotos

12:36PM | Mon, 24 February 2014

I am glad that you are able to tell of your experiences in Vietnam. beautiful structure

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auntietk

5:19PM | Mon, 24 February 2014

What a great collection of pictures from your trip! Sorry to be so far behind ... I haven't been here for far too long. It was good to talk and catch up with you today! :)

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danapommet

9:16PM | Wed, 26 February 2014

A super capture and the elevator helps get access to that beautiful pagoda!

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K_T_Ong

9:35AM | Tue, 15 April 2014

Lovely pagoda on a hill. Always have a soft spot for things ancient and Asian. The presence of reminders of the intrusions of the modern West kind of spoilt it for me, though... :(