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During the Vietnam War Lai Khê was a garrison town as the ARVN 5th Division was based there for most of the 1960s/70s. [1] Lai Khe barracks, 24 April 1967 Lai Khe helicopter revetments, 24 April 1967. Lai Khê was also the Headquarters for the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division from October 1967 until January 1970.
The 1st ACR was based at the division's forward base camp at Lai Khe. On the morning of 10 June 1965 during the Battle of Đồng Xoài , the 1st Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment was landed by helicopter near the Thuận Lợi rubber plantation, about 4 kilometres north of Đồng Xoài where they were ambushed by Viet Cong (VC) forces ...
Vietnam: The Camera at War is a television documentary originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1995 as a special edition of the arts strand The Late Show marking the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. It tells the story of the war through its most iconic photographs (such as The Burning Monk and The Napalm Girl, etc.)
At the My Lai museum outside Da Nang in Vietnam — formally known as the Son My War Remnant Site — a marble plaque lists 504 victims by name. Of the 273 women killed, 17 were pregnant.
The base also had an airfield to the south east called An Khe Airfield capable of landing Lockheed C-130A Hercules aircraft. [6] The base had a perimeter of 26 km known as the Green Line with 3-man watchtowers every 50m. [7] On the night of 3 September 1966 the Viet Cong carried out a mortar attack on the Golf Course. Starting at 21:50 the base ...
The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phúc Story, the Photograph and the Vietnam War, by Denise Chong, is a 1999 biographical and historical book tracing the life story of Phúc. Chong's historical coverage emphasizes the life, especially the school and family life, of Phúc from before the attack, through convalescence, and into the present time.
The New York Times, citing Social Security Administration death records, also reported Calley's death. Calls to numbers listed for Calley's son, William L. Calley III, were not returned. American ...
Armed with a metal detector, Nguyen Thi Ha Lan walks slowly and carefully over unexplored empty fields in north central Vietnam's Quang Tri province. A ping, then whirr of the detector tells her ...