Just click on a picture to see a full-size view. In June 1968 Australia was dismayed by the news that the guided-missile destroyer HMAS Hobart had been badly damaged by 'friendly fire' in Vietnam: Two crew died and seven were wounded during the USAF attack. on it.
Boston and Hobart both took hits but only Hobart suffered fatalities.Hobart arrived at Subic Bay on the 19th June where CINCPAFLT, Admiral J.J. Hyland USN inspected the damage (above) and addressed the Ship's Comapny. We heard a crash of glass and a splash as one of the helos hit the water, the other helo broke contact and left the area.”Steffes says for the next two and one half hours the PCF-12 played cat and mouse with one or more helos, opening fire whenever they moved in.
I went up to the pilot house to tell Mr. Snyder and standing in the doorway, I could see the other helo. Right: Damage to HMAS Hobart (II)'s aft funnel. The Alpha Boat was PCF-19 with LTJG John Davis’ crew aboard, they were operating with a Coast Guard Cutter, the USCG Campbell. The IFF (Identification Friend of Foe) system indicated it was ‘friendly’ and the ship was attempting to establish further identity when a Sparrow air-to-air missile struck her amidships on the starboard (right) side.
On the 20th June all ships in Subic Half Masted their Colours in honour of Chief Hunt and OrdSmn Butterworth.Hobart completed 3 Gunline deployments to Vietnam and decommissioned in May 2000.I was aboard PCF-12 on June 15, 1968 when we got underway from Danang enroute to our assigned patrol area, Enfield Cobra Charlie. What I have really found goes far beyond the "facts".I have met a lot of great guys in the process, including FO's who worked with "Mauler" while I was a GLO, "Brown Water" sailors and chopper pilots who were on the Cua Viet, and many old shipmates. In the meantime whilst Hobart had been trying to establish the identity of the aircraft it launched a missile which hit her amidships on the starboard side, immediately aft of the boat davit.
“Unfortunately, this is an untold story of the Vietnam War and no one generally knows of the events that led to the ‘friendly fire’ missile attack on the Hobart. We headed out to Yankee Station snuggled up to the 7th Fleet. I know we were lucky, very lucky, to have "dodged a bullet" that weekend.
Our guns opened up and I ran back to my position as the loader on the after gun. The 2nd missile entered her transom just below 1 Deck wrecking the Gunner's Store and Engineers Workshop, luckily the warhead did not explode. I remember it to this day. I recall chatting and laughing with my new found snipe friend, Ed Cruz as we slipped and slid in the wet bilge while hooking up these cables. Hobart completed 3 Gunline deployments to Vietnam and decommissioned in May 2000. The torpedo struck aft on the port side causing considerable damage in the vicinity of the wardroom. Always after dark. At the time the belief was these were lumbering After the sightings, Allied Command, fearing another That night, the forward spotters along the eastern DMZ again reported the ‘enemy helicopters’ had re-appeared, and the Allied forces sprang into action.Details of the subsequent aerial ‘melee’ remain sketchy, but it is known several US A US Navy Board of Inquiry, which investigated the Hobart ‘incident’ for the Australian government, found shortcomings of the Phantom’s radar system were partly to blame: to stop big targets flooding the radarscope the radar had a cut-off mechanism, so the returns from a warship and a slow moving low flying helicopter could appear similar on-screen.After the ‘lights’ fled seaward, the first ‘friendly fire’ incident occurred shortly after midnight when the US Navy swift boat PCF-19 was sunk by three air-to-air missiles while patrolling some kilometres south of the DMZ.
“As dawn broke, we could only see the shoreline and the Point Dume.”Steffes concluded: “We continued to monitor and track these ‘lights’ for several weeks after this up until September … I know what the ‘official story’ is, but this is mine as true and complete as I can remember.”Jim Steffes’ story of course raise many fascinating questions including:Did the PCF-12 crew fall victim to ‘cultural tracking’: aliens using their advanced technology to mimick our technology to interface with humans?If the lights were North Vietnamese observer helicopters?
The NGLO had a radio operator that saw the flash and explosion of PCF-19. It was while there that I discovered that there was a tremendous amount of UFO and alien activity in Vietnam. Hobart completed 3 Gunline deployments to Vietnam and decommissioned in May 2000. 1.
As an element of Task Unit 70.8.9 HMAS HOBART provided Naval Gunfire Support for United States and Allied Forces ashore in the Republic of Vietnam, and as an element of Task Group 77.1 in the Gulf of Tonkin, supported Naval Operations against North Vietnamese logistics groups and lines of communications.
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