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The Vũng Rô Bay incident refers to the discovery of a 100-ton North Vietnamese naval trawler attempting to unload supplies and munitions on a beach in South Vietnam's Vũng Rô Bay on 16 February 1965. The incident spurred further United States Navy involvement in the Vietnam War.
Weapons and munitions captured at Vung Ro Bay. In the Vung Ro Bay Incident, an American pilot spotted a 100-ton North Vietnamese naval trawler unloading munitions on a beach at a remote bay on the coast of central South Vietnam. RVNAF aircraft sank the ship and the defenders and crew were later killed or captured after a firefight with South ...
In February 1965 the bay was the site of the Vũng Rô Bay incident.. Port Lane, Vũng Rô Bay, 6 November 1968 1969 map of Port Lane. In July 1966 the U.S. Army secured the area as part of Operation John Paul Jones and the 39th Engineer Battalion constructed a small port facility here to support U.S. Army operations in the area and relieve the logistical pressure on Tuy Hòa. [2]
[8] [9] The extent of infiltration was underscored in February 1965 when a U.S. Army helicopter crew spotted a North Vietnamese trawler camouflaged to look like an island. [10] The event would later be known as the Vung Ro Bay Incident , named for the small bay that was the trawler's destination.
Operation Market Time was the United States Navy, Republic of Vietnam Navy and Royal Australian Navy operation begun in 1965 to stop the flow of troops, war material, and supplies by sea, coast, and rivers, from North Vietnam into parts of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Your account of the Vung Ro Bay incident is interesting; however, not totally correct. In February 1965 I was the American Special Forces Advisor that took the 91st Airborne Ranger Battalion (Vietnamese) onto Vung Ro Bay. We were successful in gaining control of the Beach after the second landing via LSM's.
MIUWS 12 arrived at Vung Tau in mid-April and established a Harbor Entrance Control Post in an old French fort overlooking the Vung Tau anchorage and channel. During May MIUWS 12 began operations at Vung Tau with one radar installed and one Landing Craft Personnel (Large) Mark XI (LCPL) patrol boat for harbour patrol. Also in May MIUWS 22 and ...
The Battle of Ban Me Thuot was a decisive battle of the Vietnam War which led to the complete destruction of South Vietnam's II Corps Tactical Zone.The battle was part of a larger North Vietnamese military operation known as Campaign 275 to capture the Tay Nguyen region, known in the West as the Vietnamese Central Highlands.