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Long Thanh North Airfield Long Thanh Army Airfield, July 1967. Aviation paragraph. 210th Aviation Battalion (January 1968-August 1971) [3]: 117 25th Aviation Company (February 1968-July 1971) [3]: 117 54th Aviation Company (January 1968-March 1971) [3]: 117 73rd Aviation Company (January 1968-May 1970) [3]: 117
At the beginning of 1967 the United States was engaged in a steadily expanding air and ground war in Southeast Asia. Since its inception in February 1965, Operation Rolling Thunder, the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, had escalated in the number and significance of its targets, inflicting major damage on transportation networks industry, and petroleum refining and storage facilities.
The 210th Combat Aviation Battalion joined the 12th Aviation Group (Combat) on 15 January 1968 at Long Thanh with the following units: [1]: 12 120th Assault Helicopter Company at Long Binh; 125th Air Traffic Control Company at Bien Hoa; 16th Signal Company (Hyper Nav) at Tan Son Nhut; USARV Flight Detachment at Long Thanh
In light of the setbacks which People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and VC forces had experienced early in 1967, PAVN General Trần Văn Trà suggested that PAVN and VC forces could still be victorious if they inflicted as many casualties as possible on U.S. military units, hoping that the Americans would conclude that the war was too costly and ...
“We watched 400 Vietnam documentaries, and some are amazing — the Ken Burns series is incredible — but we didn’t think we’d seen any that first and foremost really got you inside the ...
They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 is a 2004 book written by David Maraniss. The book centers around the Battle of Ong Thanh and a protest at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2004 [1] and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize that same year.
1st Infantry Division operations in Binh Guong Province that extended to include the Loc Ninh area of Bình Long Province after PAVN/VC attacks on Loc Ninh on 29 October 1967. The Battle of Ong Thanh took place when U.S. forces were ambushed by a superior communist force. Bing Guong and Bình Long Provinces. Sep 29 – Oct 11: Operation Kenmore ...
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