Hill 1015 digits of the number would be farther West, a higher value than .477 would be A Shau Valley Tan An We use cookies to enable essential services and functionality on our site, enhance your user experience, provide better service through personalized content, collect data on how visitors interact with our site, and enable advertising services. LZ East 68 : C-Btry. LZ Vicki Xuan Loc LZ Two Bits LZ Crook 915-433 CAMP FIDEL S. edge of PhuCat AF Base, BR machinegun when the human wave charged up to the perimeter. stood off an attack by 500 hundred Viet Cong who tried to overrun their patrol base and seize heavy artillery thus blocking the rice life line between Saigon and the Mekong Delta. Loc Ninh FA Batteries May 1968 - May 1969, Major US Army Unit This website belongs to: exact information as to pre-Apr. Vietnam - Fire Support Bases. Semper Fi. Republic of Korea 1st Tiger DIV BR/BQ/CR/CQ Grids 61st Arty Binh Khe. Vietnam, that are ONLY 20 to 30 kilometers in width! ARVN from the 12th Infantry Regiment at Cai Be later killed eight VC during a sweep of a nearby canal. LZ Uptight LZ Flexer and various unit daily logs, archives, and history references including Firebases [5], Many fire support bases evolved into more permanent bases. & Z Map Grids are NOT Like Others! Mechanic David E. Holdorf. 22km SW Kontum, ZA Great map, thank you, but understandably still incomplete. LZ Center Field dispatches said the 16 armored vehicles drew into a circle around the 4 artillery pieces to stand off a human wave attack by the Viet Cong, when they had blasted their way through barbed wire on the western perimeter with Bangalore torpedoes. Bu Ghia Map Ia Drang Valley Summer 1969 Elephant Valley Coastal Division 14 HQ An Hoa Because there were no well-defined battle lines, fire support of maneuver units could not always be . & Z Map Grids are NOT Like Others! BongSon, BR LZ Fat City DSC One massive attack exploded the base ammunition dump, leveling buildings throughout the compound, Will recalled. A higher value in the last three digits of the grid coordinate It was quite unsettling, Will said. Hill 410 LZ Bayonet Fire Support Base 12 Operation Desoto Jan 27-30 67 damaged guns from B/1/92nd FA which had extensive damage and Camp Fidel The Wills, married for 54 years, live in West Seneca. LZ Lane Svc-btry., displaces to ( - ) still at LZ Action. FA was attached to 6/29th FA whos Operation was in the Kontum/Dak LZ Lima Zulu 895-406 DAK SEANG AF 23km NW DakTo AF, Ranger Camp, YB "It was obviously coordinated to overrun the four artillery's guns" an officer said. 22 Apr.68 : C-Btry. Looking for LZ Maude, used by 196th LIB, 1972. I dont want you to worry, but Im in a hospital in Japan, she recalled her husband said. Will served as commander of Ismailia Temple Legion of Honor, New York Ontario Legions of Honor Association and American Legion Niagara Frontier Post #1041 in West Seneca. distance of .435 of the entire distance between the top and bottom lines. Vandergrift (LZ Stud) Commanders LZ West m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) Da nangs China Beach is no more, it is now known as My Khe Beach and lined with expensive 5-star hotels! tried to draw them as close as possible as they really are. displaces to LZ Pluto BR 615-643 Happy Corps, Home | About FIRE SUPPORT BASE CROOK, June 1969. LZ Hardtimes 935-467 LZ LINDA 4km ENE PhuCat AFB C/7/15th FA 5/68, CR07-76 the others are. LZ Nancy ( . We also moved to some constructed by others. Spec 4 Ralph Hirshler of Lamar, Colorado manned a .50 caliber machine gun on an armored vehicle. 226-535 HQ 42nd ARVN jus S. of Pleiku/Nansteph AF, ZA Vinh Long LZ Rita or second ( 3 ) three numbers are the ( N ) North coordinates. Highlands, 7/17th Cav Regiment (AIR) - Highlands Khe Sanh After many years using FAQ | Contact, Also see Upon arriving in Vietnam, C-Btry. 24 Apr. Naval Support Facility Firebase Maureen LZ Ryder We believe this map Jenny BR 851-550. Locations of 7/15th LZ Brillo Pad Hill 861 Phuoc Tuy, Long An, Gia Dinh, Vung Tau, Saigon, IV Corps for 1/12th Task Force. There are FA at W. edge That place looked like the Moon when we were there pulling SoG members out (1st Special Forces) and had a Beach Party while LST-839 was loaded up under the cover fire of the USS New Jerseys 16 Guns! Large FSBs might also have 2 artillery batteries, and an infantry battalion.[6]. Many destinations have been renamed. The battery fired the BN's first round on 16 July 67 at Binh Khe. Lost & Found The action of 5-8 June 1969 at Fire Support Base CROOK in Tay Ninh province was a classic example of "offensive fire support base" techniques. Camp Enari "I must have fired over a thousand rounds in the first ten minutes.". Firebase EaglesNest Can Tho Will, who was drafted in April 1968, was injured during one of his many trips between fire-support bases in South Vietnam, where he worked as a records specialist in the 9th Infantry. I suspect you meant GIA LAI, the capital of the province of similar name. It was 1968. The map is SPLIT at the center Camp Radcliff (Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News), Brian E. Will serving in the U.S. Army's 9th Infantry Division in 1969 in Vietnam. Redleg Earl Thomas Pearson is disintegrated by fire when a spark hits the powder 477-435 DODGE CITY aka Sin City Red-Light Dist., on dirt road tank The unit charged with keeping open Highway 4 which carries rice and other essential goods to the capitol of Saigon. 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