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Following the departure of the U.S. forces in 1972, Củ Chi became the base of the ARVN 25th Division. [1]As the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces closed in on Saigon in late April 1975, the camp was hit by PAVN artillery fire on 28 April and besieged the PAVN. 25th Division commander Major general Lý Tòng Bá ordered his forces to fight in place, but on the morning of 29 April after ...
The US 3rd Brigade, 9th Infantry Division, began operating with elements of the 46th and 50th Regiments, while the US 25th Infantry Division, moved an entire brigade south to the Củ Chi area to work with the 49th and 50th Regiments, which was later supplemented with similar efforts between armor and engineer units of the two divisions.
Marvin Travis Runyon (September 16, 1924 – October 3, 2004) was an American business executive and civil servant. He had a long career as a manufacturing executive at Ford Motor Company until his retirement, then joined Nissan as head of North American operations.
Ho Bo Woods, 20 km north of Cu Chi, Bình Dương Province: 129: 22 Jan 9 – 11: Operation Flying Tiger VI [2] ARVN and ROK Capital Division search and destroy operation: Bình Định Province: 192: 11 Jan 11 – 14: Operation Quick Kick II [1] 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division search and destroy operation: Bình Dương Province: Jan 11 – 17
The woods were used by the Viet Cong (VC) as a base area during the Vietnam War. During Operation Circle Pines from 29 March to 5 April 1966, the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment attacked the woods and discovered that the VC had built extensive bunker and tunnels systems with some of the tunnels three or four levels deep. [1]
Operation Saratoga was a search and destroy operation during the Vietnam War conducted by the 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division that took place in northeastern Hậu Nghĩa, southern Tây Ninh and western Bình Dương Provinces, lasting from 8 December 1967 to 11 March 1968.
On 24 March the 1st Brigade, 25th Division engaged the 7th Cu Chi Battalion near Trảng Bàng in northern Hậu Nghĩa Province killing 243 VC for the loss of 10 U.S. killed. [ 1 ] : 463 In late March, Allied intelligence detected VC troop movements south from War Zone C to camps along the Saigon River .
The action continued until about 16:40 resulting in 18 PAVN/VC killed and three individual and one crew-served weapon captured. At 10:15, a 25th Infantry Division convoy from Củ Chi Base Camp to Tây Ninh, was ambushed 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Go Dau Ha. Within 15 minutes, troops from the Division's armored cavalry squadron arrived in ...