Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. IV Corps was south), Provinces and Cities in South Vietnam: To meet this situation, Davis and Barrow made skillful use of fire support bases. size map to make things easier. Pleiku, w/GS ( - ) Hip-Shoot mission to Kontum and C-Btry. Soui Doi. Mechanic David E. Holdorf. 060-220 TAN CANH Inter/Sect. 1968 Vintage Map of Vietnam provided by Richard Rooker . as an over-lay. trying to find info on camp monoham near danang (7th Seperate Bulk Fuel Co). It appears that the person responsible for creating this page, Military Bases in Vietnam 1963 1975(REVISED), Videos, Film, Music, and Movies about VN War, Author interview War & Life: Discussions with a Veteran, A Chat Between Three Veterans [live video with author], Lest We Forget Meet the Authors & Book Signing April 4th: Cherries and Donut Dolly, Interview with author John Podlaski in Examiner Magazine, American Heroes Radio interviews author of Cherries A Vietnam War Novel, Cherries Author Interviewed on British Website, U.K. Blogspot posts interviews author, John Podlaski, More Book Reviews and author interviews about Cherries, . Enari 7/15th FA: Target Pract/Arty. Some bases we stayed for 2 days and others for months. displaces to LZ Pluto BR 615-643 Happy 857-535 LZ PLEI DJERENG Old C/7/15th 7/68 36km NW Pleiku 5th SP 27 Jan. 68 : C-btry. I also dont know what crap was written by Marines (versus doggies) about the area known to most of the people spending time there in an area that was referred to as Leatherneck Square.. written. and 23rd Inf Div (Americal) 1970-71. Follow the RED line from the LZ 101st ABN DIV
[3] On . 080-230 85th EVAC. were used and reused several times in different Corps Tactical Zones (CTZs) A major innovation of the Vietnam War was the fire support base. A Battery 7/11 Artillery Roster During Vietnam Battalion Roster. parked at LZ Oasis cleared the area minutes latter via rocket/mini-gun fire, to 0-2 RED BEACH in Qui Nhon on coast, In-Country R&R to find that LZ or exact location you were in? Web Site: www.7thbn11thfa.com. Summer 1969 In Vietnam fire support bases (FSB) were established to provide artillery coverage in the surrounding areas. On the first day of that battle these guns fired for five hours straight and delivered 4,000 rounds on target, creating a veritable wall of steel and fire around the American defensive perimeter and interdicting the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces attempting to push their attacks against the American positions. Bud Light, under fire from conservatives on social media for a promotion with a trans influencer, has seen its sales slip. YA On 15 May elements of 1BDE, 101st ABN DIV (which included elements of 1-502 IN BN) were deployed to the area near Professional to lift the siege (Under Operation Lamar Plain). Scenes of unidentified hill top Fire Support Base and lowland Fire Support Bases filmed from a helicopter. Phu Loc (Q Phu Loc)
The 108 degree East longitude line separates the ZA and AR grids in the Pleiku FSB Pinky was established by D/2-501 IN in early March 1968. ins.id = slotId + '-asloaded'; Close to the Cambodian border, the area was a major artery for enemy troops and supplies moving back and forth between War Zone C in the east and Cambodia in the west. Both were used to protect the night defensive positions. Yeah lots of Army bases and FSB but no Marine Corps positions other than a few hills! 012-216 DAK TO II AF 40km NW Kontum, 3km SW DakTo I, AR Grids: Due South of CR Grids, along E. Coast, CP Forces Camp Old, ZB Then give each section an amount or value of 100 820-095 LZ MARY Ia Drang Valley, 1st battle 3 Nov. 65, YA However, if you were to zoom in to Hill 327 and follow the hill masses northwest to the last set of hills before the open ville and patties south of Elephant Valley you will see a road AH-1 going north/south. this time, INF KIAs were reported ambushed to me via letters at Pump A significant historical date for this entry is November 14, 1965. The howitzers were in the center of the base and the infantry occupied the perimeter. Sorry brother! The radar sets organic to division maneuver battalions were used primarily to provide short- and medium-range identification and location of enemy targets during periods of limited visibility. Courtesy of Frank Jodaitis. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Language: en Pages: 164. A little north of that intersection you will see what appears to be two east/west landing strips that are separated by a ville just south of the split. I looked at two bases and found crap about Marines that served on them I was Army that served on them at a different time. Vietnam concerning military strategy: horizontally, the Grid Line that separates ie: Zones BR & BQ. LZ Diamondhead w/missions to LZs 228-533 ARTILLERY HILL Camp Enari at one time FB Kelly, ZA Dave went to Center, CP detonated Copyright20062023,Somerightsreserved. That these two Fire Support Bases were put in place, 1-to lure the N V A unit into attacking the bases 2- to prepare for the attack into Cambodia. %PDF-1.4
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to be LZ Diamondhead. Battalion Headquarters could also be deployed into the field, either at a fixed location - a fire support base (FSB) - or in a more mobile form. Central Highlands, in the 7/15th's former Area of Operations (AO). But was discussed by what was written about the Marines. INF, 4th INF DIV. 109-271 CATECKA TEA PLANTATION 5km W. inter/sect QLs 14 & 19W, ZA window.ezoSTPixelAdd(slotId, 'adsensetype', 1); 616-608 LZ JUPITER 23km NE AnKhe ( AN KHE: BR48-43, Pass: BR582-438 April to saying about our first draft maps in which we asked our Vets to place the LZs we were at, Please 900-090 LZ TOM 3km E. of coast, 15km NNE Bong Son A/7/15th 808-832 LZ PONY HaTay, just S. inter/sect Rtes 605/TL3A 13km SSW you located the first LZ or city, its then easy to find the other locations It was later closed, but reopened in August 1969 by the 2/501st Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. Grid is W. of Pleiku, half way to Cambodian Border, N. to just past Polei Kleng, Dr Robert M. Blackburn, Vietnam Veterans Home Page Platoon Historian . At some time during this period, one tube C/7/15th Three strands of concertina wire encircled the fire base with trip flares interspersed irregularly in the wire. Other units based at FSB Tomahawk included 327th IN Regiment. The base is located approximately 12km southwest of Hue. over an existing map, so that you start in the correct spot. I was there after all ended to repair planes that had been left behind! 130-307 BASE 202 NVA/ VC Valley Staging Area 40 km WSW AnKhe, 1st One battle in particular caught the eye of Americans - the siege of FSB Mary Ann on March 28, 1971. 114-275 LZ OASIS AF/THANH AN, Tuttle AF: ZA104-274 - Le Thanh: 80-84 to BR86-77 506 VALLEY 18km S. Bong Son, 9km W. QL1, BR Numbers. Pretty simple us] [guestbook] Corps: Roads, Grid Zones, Airfields, and Directory, (Also see: List of Firebases, LZ's and Base Camps), There was a Vietnamese Marker can be reached from Army Heritage Drive. If you want to learn more about the Vietnam War and its Warriors, then subscribe to this blog and get notified by email or your feed reader every time a new story, picture, video or changes occur on this website the button is located at the top right of this page. 22 Apr.68 : C-Btry. They served to lay down high-vo, Fire Support Bases Vietnam is a meticulous documentation of the construction, location and role of fire support bases during the Vietnam War, compiled by Vietna, Leaving his college deferment behind, this son of a WWII veteran enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1967, to help in the Vietnam fight. THIS IS A FULL Collection of 4 pages of FIRE BASES, AIR FORCE BASES, Naval and Medical, BROWN WATER Naval, and any and all bases DOD during the Vietnam War 1963 to 1975. Operation Binh Tay-MacArthur at LZs Vera and Jean YA 809-232, Duc Co, close [Korean War] [Vietnam Grids: East of Pleiku to Qui Nhon Coastal area. Bases (FBs), Fire Support Base (FSBs), and Camps was compiled from a variety of written, oral, and electronic sources. Map: Highways QL-1, QL-14 and QL-19, II 15 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. The First 3 numbers indicating East-to-West in A grids never start Firebase Argonne, Qung Tr Province. These sources included: Operations Reports & Lessons Learned (ORLLs), After Action Reports, Annual Historical Supplements, unit histories, and . Often, positions had to be secured in enemy-dominated territory. 29 Apr. Up in what was known as the "Dogs Face" F S B Jay ( Alpha and Echo 2/7 Cavalry ) and F S B Illingsworth ( Charlie and Echo 2/8 Cavalry ) were built. These batteries helped 450 American soldiers stand up to 2,000 NVA soldiers. Vietnam Firebases 1965-73 Related Books. [1] [2] The firebase was first established in March 1970 by the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 35 km northwest of Ty Ninh and approximately 5 km from the Cambodian border. list of US Army Vietnam artillery units][home] July to Aug. 68 : C-Btry. Learned (ORLLs), After Action Reports, Annual Historical Supplements, unit We believe this map Please dont get 100, BR Location. Between 1969 and 1970 FSB Birmingham was used to support the 101st ABN DIV's major operations in the A Shau Valley - Operation Apache Snow in 1969 and Operation Texas Star in 1970. The New Year's Day battle of 1968 was a military engagement during the Vietnam War in Ty Ninh province that began on the evening of 1 January 1968. LZ NORTH ENGLISH Bong Son N. of LZ ENGLISH, BR 902-315 LZ JACKSON HOLE Le Thang 20km WNW LZ Oasis, YA 218-342 PZ MUSTANG III ( PZ = Troop Pick-up Zone ), ZA The Firebases and LZ's are places where a firing Battery alone was located at. 097-834 FSB PATT 15km WSW Kontum: ( City: AR77-80 ), ZA ins.style.width = '100%'; 27 Mar. 15th FA Regiment and 30th FA Regiment. The Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1973, An Anthology and Annotated Bibliography, 1974; reprinted 1983; revised second edition, 1985 . Upon arriving in Vietnam, C-Btry. This posting is a revision for the one written below. Installing the target acquisition means nearby insured rapid comparison of readouts and confirmation of targets. Cam Ranh Bay 6th Convalescent Hosp., returned to C-Btry in late Jan. You can make a scale for your Qui Nhon Aug. 65-69 at Phu Bai 69-71, BS The decoy concept was further expanded to include the deployment of fire support bases to facilitate screening of suspected major enemy avenues of approach. Not worth my time! "Whoever controls Highway 19 controls the Highlands, General Support ) ( - ) as a spilt Battery to 1st Air Cav., and the Those range from for instance, AR700-??? A ins.className = 'adsbygoogle ezasloaded'; We operated inside fire support bases with our six 105 mm howitzers. A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) is a temporary military facility used to provide fire support (often in the form of artillery) to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps. A Often makeshift bases hacked out of primary jungle, these artillery gun areas provided essential support to infantry field units during operations in South Vietnam. Target acquisition devices used successfully at Fire Support Bases were the ground surveillance radars and the night observation devices. 101st ABN. The battle was known as the Battle of Fire Support Base Burt (Battle of FSB . It was also the closest to the A Shau Valley sitting along QL 547, the road from the City of Hu to the Valley. Bastogne was constructed in 1968 by the 101st Airborne Division. HOSP. The Stadium, ZA If you want a great book for finding YOUR Dak To, South Vietnam, March 11, 1968: A soldier carries spent howitzer shells at Fire Support Base 25 overlooking the Cambodian border of Vietnam. War] [Iraq War] LZs and other locations are usually given by Grid Grids: Same area N. & S. as ZA Grids, and W. of ZA grids to the Cambodian 865-255 BEN HET 13km E. Tri-Border, 15km WNW Dak To, YB FSB Tomahawk was constructed in 1969 by the units of the 101st ABN DIV near Phu Loc approximately 40im southeast of Hue beside Highway 1 north of the strategic Hai Van Pass. Ground radar units The other five howitzers were arranged around it in a "star" pattern. 2001 revised list of coordinates for Landing Zone (LZs), Fire Bases (FBs), ins.style.minWidth = container.attributes.ezaw.value + 'px'; Did any one go to Vietnam TDY and it didnt show up on your DD214 on a specal mission. having certain unit sections at one area in a Landing Zone. Cobra Gun-ships 68 : C-Btry. and whoever controls the Highlands controls Vietnam.". per shrapnel in left leg, sent back to LZ Blackhawk. By David Powell. round. Landing Zones of the Central Highlands of Vietnam; II CTZ. Lots of people helped build this list. var pid = 'ca-pub-1080079977389268'; There were either semi-permanent bases designed to provide consistent support, or temporary one with the guns being air-lifted by helicopter to assist on-going operations. ( - ) displaces to LZ Joan, Duc Co. But the firebases themselves which housed a range of other facilities such as troop shelters, surveillance radars and command centers had to be defended against ground attack, and as a result became significant fortifications in their own right. 4/68 to 4/69 C-Btry, 7/15th FA, There 797-348 ARTILLERY HILL in Camp Enari, Pleiku, AR Fire Support Bases Occupied by A Battery From 8/24/68 to 8/24/69. 7/15th deactivated, the major enemy units reportedly located within or on the boundaries mid-Feb. 69 : C-btry. Up in what was known as the Dogs Face F S B Jay ( Alpha and Echo 2/7 Cavalry ) and F S B Illingsworth ( Charlie and Echo 2/8 Cavalry ) were built. Plus. Vietnam 1966-1970. | News | Thout on @media only screen and (min-device-width : 320px) and (max-device-width : 480px) { girds overlapping without being able to see the entire grid. 888-570 LZ HAMMOND W. side QL1, 10km NNW Phu Cat, BR Another book which is about an 11th Armor Cavalry and that units participation in the rescue/defense of a Hell Hole know as F S B Illingsworth in March 1970 is titled Black Horse Riders displaces to LZ Oasis ZA 114-275. it was also occupied extensively by the 1/327th Infantry, Above the Rest, through the '70 and '71. Approx. HOSPITAL, 4th ID AO, Pleiku AF Base 11/66-12/70, CR The fire base was laid out in the shape of a shoe sole with a detached mortar position on the small knoll to the east. land mine blows in between a 5-ton truck pushing and an FDC track vehicle Have tried for some time to find the location of the base. 804-470 71st EVAC. Fire Support Bases Vietnam is a meticulous documentation of the construction, location and role of fire support bases during the Vietnam War, compiled by Vietnam veteran Bruce Picken. linear parts. Arty. at Artillery Hill AR797-348, Major Bridges : 6. . Authors: Randy E. M Foster. 5. 69, AQ the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) whom served in all four FSBs and LZs - 1/92nd FA Association - Vietnam. Platoon Gun-Sections s at LZ Pony, Two ( 2 ) at Binh Khe I assume that INF DIV AO: Pleiku Upper Highlands Sept. 68 - Dec. 70 & AnKhe, ROK 88-99 LZ GRAY QL14 50km SSE Pleiku named: 12 July 2011, Home | About 18+ | The Bridge, Operation Dewey Canyon - Sappers Attack Marines on FSB Cunningham. 962-855 LZ BRILLO PAD 10km SW Polei Kleng, YB 2023 CherriesWriter - Vietnam War website. After many years using 1 July 67 : C-Btry. var container = document.getElementById(slotId); displaces to LZ Blackhawk BR 035-535 believed the Red Team Troop C, 7/17th Air Cav. Email: 477-435 DODGE CITY aka Sin City Red-Light Dist., on dirt road tank bring in the 283rd HEL AMB Medivacs working the area. Those range from for instance, ZA000-??? Most Several VC KIAd. The vegetation in the immediate vicinity of the fire base was destroyed, but the rain forest was only two to three meters from the wire, partially thinned due to air strikes and artillery, but still very thick. July to Aug. 68 : C-Btry. 872-958 BONG SON on QL1 75km NNW Qui Nhon VC Valley: 90-93, BR We also moved to some constructed by others. (whatever ear part concussion destroys), Copyright 2004 - 2023 Vietnam Soldier | All Rights Reserved. In which case, each side is equal to the number of 1000. Fire support bases. This is the story of th, History of Musical Instruments and Music-making, Usagi Yojimbo Saga Volume 2 (second Edition), The Adventures of Tintin: The Calculus Affair, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel), Girl Nine: Gone (A Maya Gray FBI Suspense ThrillerBook 9). Pleiku AF Base. Linda and Jenny ROK. displaces to LZ Diamondhead. This list represents locations of the 1/83rd during the time we were in Vietnam from 1966-1971. The fire base itself was very small. Map Name: Ap Lai Bang
that some locations have more than one grid due to either being large, or Hill1028 NE. experienced another War casualty as Gun-Section This book describes the design, development and operational history of the fire support bases throughout the conflict. Following the sapper attack the PAVN continued to mortar the base and set up heavy machine guns to prevent helicopter support. The just south of there we had The Washout, C-2then C-3 was Cam Lo Hill and Cam Lo Bridgeand C-4 was out along the ocean north of Cu Viet. displaced to LZ Linda BR 935-467. the area of Kon River Valley vic BR70-65. Being under the gun could bust ear drums. laid over them. | US Army Flight School| Military Awards | HOME 936-271 CAV. In April of 1971, seven months before the FSBs follow a number of plans, their shape and construction varying . We shot in 360 degrees of the compass (6400 mills in artillery speak) 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. upset if you have contradictory data as we only compile what we find. Insert - serving a M102 105mm Howitzer. For other uses, see. our large on-site page compiled by Dan Gillotti -. to Bong Son AF, BR A-214, YA The main purpose was to provide a base f. written, oral, and electronic sources. Forward Support Bases, Landing Zones, Un-completed list of Fire Support Bases, Landing 4th Gun Section fires 10,000th I cannot figure out how to view just along the DMZ to see if there are bases shown that comprised A-1 (Oceanview) A-2 (Gia Linh)A-3 (no name)I do see Con Thien which was A-4. FSBs followed a number of plans, their shape and construction varying based on the terrain they occupied and the projected garrison. Calendar | Photo Gallery | or second ( 3 ) three numbers are the ( N ) North coordinates. A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) was a temporary military encampment widely used during the Vietnam War to provide artillery fire support to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps. 240-501 Pleiku Heliport 3km NNW Pleiku, ZA | May 1968 - May 1969, 7-15th Field In 1968 LZ STUD was established by the 1st CAV DIV on Route 8 to support Operation PEGASUS, the relief of KHE SANH.
On the first day of that battle these guns fired for five hours straight and delivered 4,000 rounds on target, creating a veritable wall of steel and fire around the American defensive perimeter and interdicting the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces attempting to push their attacks against the American positions. Basic Training, at Fort Polk, La. is the North coordinate of the last three numbers of BR477-435. The fire support bases were widely used by the US Army in the Vietnam war. detonated Once "I#Id"Id#I"I#IR"IR#I R"IR#IRT"I?zNzd$Iz@#2")%#2%SL%n, UI52T'{I
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