Travel Danang
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Nguyễn Tất Thành road, Hòa Hiệp Nam, Liên Chiểu dist, Da Nang
The Red Beach of Da Nang is now known as Xuan Thieu Beach. This is a historic landmark – in 1965, American Marine Corps landed here, beginning the US “Local War” strategy in Vietnam. Before 1975, this Xuan Thieu beach was reserved for US troops because it was a military zone, a field of airfields and US military warehouses and defense systems protecting the city of Danang from the north. US soldiers called Xuan Thieu beach “Red Beach” – perhaps because of the visual sense of sunrise and sunset, red water reflected in the sea.
The Red Beach is now Xuan Thieu beach and becoming a tourist attraction with a full system of accommodation, entertainment to serve local and foreign tourists to Xuan Thieu beach. Xuan Thieu beach is clean, beautiful and virgin with smooth white sand beach. You can go to the Red Beach and have a walk along this virgin beach you will feel the fresh sea and the serenity of Da Nang. From here you can also see the beautiful Son Tra Peninsula and one side is the majestic Hai Van Mountain.
Today, Xuan Thieu beach is still pristine clear and shimmering red under the sunset or dawn.
Comments
Ron Halpin January 14, 2020
(5.0)
Specifically where did the the US Marines land at Da Nang. Your information is to non specific and could be almost anywhere on the Da Nang Beaches. Did they land near the old Marble Mountains air Base, further North? As far North as the railway bridge near the Oil Terminal at the foot of the mountain?
Mark Walter Harms May 8, 2020
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Red Beach was called Red Beach because the military always call their primary amphibious landing beaches Red beach in the case of Danang there was Red Beach One and Red Beach two. The hotel resort in the above pictures is the actual sight of Red Beach one where the Marines landed . Although it was nothing more than a military exercise. There were civilians and Navy Seabees waiting to great them at the beach. Red Beach two was somewhere between Red Beach one and Danang . Read Beach one became the sight of the Seabee base Camp Haskins . There was an US army base just a few hundred yards north of Haskins. The Marine Base Camp Books was inland about a mile from Red Beach and was Force Logistics Command and was where the Beer Brewery is now. The swimming pool of the above picture would have been the sight of the Seabees enlisted mans club.