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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 1968 Casiguran earthquake caused 270 deaths and 261 injuries. Some homes were destroyed and many were damaged. Costs were around $8 million (1968 rate). A tsunami was generated which left 1 person dead. 270: 261 2 [98] [99] [100] Mexico, Oaxaca: 7.3: 25.0: VIII 18 people were killed. Property damage was $2.4 million (1968 rate). 18: 3 [101 ...
In 1933, the Long Beach earthquake occurred in a populated area and damaged or destroyed many public school buildings in Long Beach and Los Angeles. Some decades later, the San Fernando earthquake affected the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles with heavy damage to several hospitals.
The 1968 Borrego Mountain earthquake occurred on April 8, at 18:28 PST in the geologically active Salton Trough of Southern California. The Salton Trough represents a pull-apart basin formed by movements along major faults. This region is dominated by major strike-slip faults one of them being the San Jacinto Fault which produced the 1968 ...
CONCORD, Calif. – The San Francisco Bay Area was met with another earthquake on Sunday morning, the second quake to affect the area since Friday. The earthquake happened at about 8:50 a.m. PT ...
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University of California logo Damage from the Great San Francisco earthquake, in Haywards area 1884 Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart • An earthquake estimated at 6.3–6.7 on the moment magnitude scale hits the Bay Area, with an epicenter in the East Bay. It causes significant damage throughout the region, and comes to be known as the ...
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 ...