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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.
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]
along the Song Tra Khuc River south and west to Song Re River, Quảng Ngãi Province: 4,476: 340 Feb 28 – May 8: Operation Massachusetts Striker [1] 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division reconnaissance in force operation: A Shau Valley: Mar 1 - 9: Operation Quintus Thrust [3] 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment reconnaissance in force ...
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 ...
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.
7 March. HMM-164 arrived in South Vietnam making the first combat deployment of the CH-46A Sea Knight. [40]: 77 7-23 March. Operation Silver City was conducted by the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Biên Hòa Province. The operation resulted in 353 PAVN/VC and 11 U.S. killed. [21]: 183 9–10 March
Construction began in the summer 1967 [3]: 178 and was announced on September 7, 1967. [13] Construction was carried by the 3rd Marine Division . First, the 11th Engineers started to work on bulldozing the so-called Trace , a path 600 meter wide and 11 kilometers long that was stripped of trees, brush and villages if needed.
The Vietnam People's Navy (VPN; Vietnamese: Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam), internally the Naval Service (Vietnamese: Quân chủng Hải quân (QCHQ)), also known as the Vietnamese People's Navy or simply Vietnam/Vietnamese Navy (Vietnamese: Hải quân Việt Nam), is the naval branch of the Vietnam People's Army and is responsible for the protection of the country's national waters ...