Phu Gas

39mto39g · #1 01-13-2004, 04:57 PM

While in Dak To around the first part of november 1967 we were doing patrols north and east of the camp, The 173 had North and west . We got some intel from some girl scout cookies and they decided to dubble the 50 gal Phu gas barrels in the perimiter. My platoon got elected to dig holes for the barrels. They had to be 1 inch below ground level, I know where they got the name PHUUUU. What was PHU gas? I know what it did but what was it made out of. We also barried 2- 8" HE rounds with basting caps just inside the wire on the north east side of the camp. Our bunkers on the north east side of the camp had about twenty little generators. claymores, phu gas, 8" shells, hand gernads, and thermite gernades, we used the thermites for illumination.
You don't want to look at a thermite at night. they are like 8 billion candel power.
After we got the perimiter all set up for some serious firefighting, we started to go on patrol more and more, until the 19th.

Ron

Bill Farnie · #2 01-13-2004, 05:32 PM

Ron,
I'm pretty sure Pho gas (Fo gas?) was some sort of napalm kinda thing. Remember them well.We would detonate them with a claymore.

PHO127 · #3 01-13-2004, 07:01 PM

FOO Gas, Mix Powdered laundry soap with gasoline and it makes a nice thick gelatine. We also used a 2lb stick of C4 in a roll of Barbed wire, 5 gal jerry cans with hand grenade wrapped in plastic electricians tape and my favorite was a claymore with a GI pen in the back at an angle filled with mecury fulminate and wired to a small battery, ok until it was tilted and the mecury contacted the other wire, then boom.

DMZ-LT · #4 01-14-2004, 08:55 AM

Our Air Cav Troop LOH's used to make all kinds of homemade bombs to drop out of their choppers. Seems like most started with a 5 gal can of gas and then they added other goodies. Had some really great explosions

39mto39g · #5 01-14-2004, 12:50 PM

Would that be 1/10 cav .
I'll tell you a story about those guys sometine, A Marine told me.

Ron