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On 16 February 1965, 1st Lt. James S. Bowers, a United States Army officer flying a MEDEVAC helicopter along the coast of central South Vietnam spotted a naval trawler camouflaged with trees and bushes perpendicular to the shore. Cargo was being unloaded and stacked on the beach at Vung Ro, an isolated bay on the rocky coast. [1]
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.
A map of South Vietnam showing provincial boundaries and names and military zones: I, II, III, and IV Corps. In 1965, the United States rapidly increased its military forces in South Vietnam, prompted by the realization that the South Vietnamese government was losing the Vietnam War as the communist-dominated Viet Cong (VC) gained influence over much of the population in rural areas of the ...
On 19 February 1965, USAF B-57s conducted the first jet strikes flown by Americans in support of South Vietnamese ground units. On 24 February 1965, USAF jets struck again, this time breaking up a Viet Cong ambush in the Central Highlands with a massive series of tactical air sorties. Again, this was an escalation in the U.S. use of air power.
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.
Operation Lam Son 277 [9] 2nd ARVN Regiment operation: Quảng Trị Province: 541: Apr 22 – Sep 22: Operation Putnam Tiger [9] 2nd and 3rd Battalions, 8th Infantry Regiment, 1st and 3rd Battalions, 12th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment operation: Kon Tum and Pleiku Provinces ...
Road from Highway 1 to Vung Ro Bay constructed during the operation, 5 September 1966. On 16 August 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment was opconned to the 1st Brigade. On 17 August 2/8 Cavalry and 2/327th were deployed west of Dong Tre but found nothing. [1]: 252