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 | DONG HA " The Best of times & the worst of times"
For those that were at Dong Ha ( I made it there with HMM-363) it was the Best of times & it was the worst of times. This map will show you just how close we were ( TOO CLOSE) to the DMZ.
Posted by Admin on 2010-07-27 |  | Operations Hastings - Map
from http://www.vwam.com/vets/marinehistory.html
From: LoneGrunt@aol.com, Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:09 PM
Popasmoke, Great photos & site!! The photo of the "Operation Hastings Map" has always troubled me from the first time I saw it in the "Time Life Book Series, The Vietnam Experience." Not sure about the other units, but the "Companies of 1/1, Alpha, Charlie & Delta" landed near a hot LZ and made their way in a north or east direction to the "Rockpile" chasing a Unit of the NVA 324B Division to the "Rockpile" and spent a few days there, there's a pic of a "UH-34D" dropping off supplies while hovering above one of the highest peaks of the pile, although you can't see the squad of Marines who helped unload the boxes of C-Rats, I know for a fact I was one of the Marines, the photographer who took the pic was in a Huey and got close enough to where I could see him put his camera in his lap while we eyeballed each other for awhile, during which, I wondered why he wouldn't take anymore pics! Anyway, when we left the pile, on the morning of "23/July/66," Charlie 1/1 got hit in an ambush by the NVA 324B Division"!! This map does not show the correct route 1/1 took in Operation Hastings!! Semper Fi, PFC Arthur Jackson USMC (Ret.) C/1/1,'66, Operation Hastings Survivor, WIA 23/July/66, Dong Ha, VN
Posted by Cpl. Beddoe on 2010-07-19 |  | MAP OF "I" CORPS VIETNAM
MAP of I Corps for TET 1968
Posted by Admin on 2010-06-06 |  | "SUPERGAGGLE" MAP KHE SANH
Chatterbox; "ET" and the Tiger head on the tails; briefed the original missions when "new" "46s joined the flights, and (then) Major Dave Althoff lead the flights, by then composited with other squadrons......It was Harvey Britt and Dave who came up with the A-4 side-by-side runs idea....HMM-262 guys....I was there when they briefed the original missions.
S/F,
Moon
Michael R. Mullen, Ph.D.
mike9743@pacbell.net
HMM-364 also flew these missions along with other Squadrons.
The first "Super Gaggle" mission flown on 24 February, under cover of suppressive fixed-wing and artillery support, each of eight CH-46s successfully dropped off a 3,000-pound external load "covering less than five minutes when they could have been taken under fire." One helicopter took a hit, but landed safely at the Khe Sanh airstrip. All the rest of the aircraft returned to base safely. General Anderson, the 1st Wing commander, exulted "today, was a small victory." He then wrote, "the only way to beat the enemy is to bludgeon the hell out of him. . . . These coordinated resupply missions under marginal weather conditions undoubtedly will be required again and again in the next few weeks."65*
Posted by Admin on 2010-04-29 |  | OVER RUN on 7 FEB 68 Lang Vei Special Forces Camp MAP
7 February 1968 the NVA struck at the Special Forces camp at Lang Vei. The Lang Vei Special Forces Camp was located astride Route 9 some nine kilometers west of Khe Sanh Village. Beginning about 1800 on 6 February, the camp was subjected to an unusually intense mortar and artillery barrage. The defenders immediately responded with counter fire from the camp and requested supporting fire from the Khe Sanh Combat Base.
When 7 February came to an end, the Lang Vei Camp was empty. Almost half of the 500 defenders were dead or missing. The survivors left behind them seven destroyed enemy tanks and at least as many enemy casualties as they themselves had suffered. The enemy attack stopped at the camp. It did not continue east toward Khe Sanh.
Posted by Admin on 2010-03-25 |  | MAP of Northern I CORPS
MAP of Northern I CORPS
Comment by: GARY BONIGER on Aug 24, 2006 11:02 AM
served with 2-26 1968
Posted by Admin on 2009-12-30 |  | PRAIRIE FIRE MISSION MAP declassified
This is the Prairie Fire Area Of Operation Map declassified.
The following is an excerpt from US ELITE FORCES-VIETNAM by Leroy Thompson, that further describes the nature of this specialized group and its secret missions.
Separate from "conventional," unconventional operations of the 5th Special Forces Group were the clandestine operations of Military Assistance Command Vietnam/Studies and Observations Group (MACV/SOG). The Studies and Observation Group (SOG) was a cover name to disguise SOG"s real function, and the name "Special Operations Group," as it was sometimes called, described its real mission more accurately.
Activated in January of 1964, SOG was a joint services unit composed of members from all four branches of the armed forces, including Navy SEALs, Marine Recons, Air Force Special Operations pilots of the 90th Special Operations Wing, but predominantly Army Special Forces.
MACV/SOG"s missions included: cross border operations into Cambodia, Laos and North Vietnam to carry out intelligence gathering or raiding missions on the enemy"s "home ground"; gathering intelligence about POWs and carrying out rescue missions when possible; rescuing downed aircrews in enemy territory ("Bright Light" missions); training, inserting, and controlling agents in North Vietnam to gather intelligence or form resistance groups; carrying out "black" Psy Ops such as operating fake broadcasting stations inside North Vietnam; kidnapping or assassinating key enemy personnel; retrieving sensitive document so equipment lost in enemy territory or in enemy hands; and inserting rigged mortar rounds or other booby-trapped ordnance in enemy arms caches (OPERATION ELDEST SON).
-Leroy Thompson. US Elite Forces-Vietnam. No. 7. Texas: Squadron/Signal, 1985. 27.
Posted by Admin on 2009-12-13 |  | Where was Khe Sanh? Did it run East to West or North to South?
I crewed as a Combat Aircrewman (S3) with HMM-363s UH-34Ds in and around the Khe Sanh Combat Base (68). I get a lot of questions about where it was and how it was orientated. This map will help to orient you or reorient you, when compared to some of the photos posted in the Khe Sanh section. For example, when looking at photo #527, you are seeing Khe Sanh from the east, and on the map, you would be viewing from the lower right hand side. You can see the similiar curve in the river. The map was supplied by George T. Curtis.
Posted by Granville Schultz on 2009-03-30 |  | DONG HA MAP
DONG HA MAP 1967
Posted by Admin on 2009-01-07 |  | Red Chinese Air Base on HAINAN ISLAND
This map will give you an idea of just how close the Chinese Fixed Wing were to I Corps. Gives you chills just thinking about it!
Posted by Admin on 2008-04-22 |  | "SUPERGAGGLE" MAP QUANG TRI PROVINCE
Chatterbox; "ET" and the Tiger head on the tails; briefed the original missions when "new" "46s joined the flights, and (then) Major Dave Althoff lead the flights, by then composited with other squadrons......It was Harvey Britt and Dave who came up with the A-4 side-by-side runs idea....HMM-262 guys....I was there when they briefed the original missions.
S/F,
Moon
Michael R. Mullen, Ph.D.
mike9743@pacbell.net
The first "Super Gaggle" mission flown on 24 February, under cover of suppressive fixed-wing and artillery support, each of eight CH-46s successfully dropped off a 3,000-pound external load "covering less than five minutes when they could have been taken under fire." One helicopter took a hit, but landed safely at the Khe Sanh airstrip. All the rest of the aircraft returned to base safely. General Anderson, the 1st Wing commander, exulted "today, was a small victory." He then wrote, "the only way to beat the enemy is to bludgeon the hell out of him. . . . These coordinated resupply missions under marginal weather conditions undoubtedly will be required again and again in the next few weeks."65*
Posted by Admin on 2007-07-03 |  | Map showing Soc Trang, Nha Trang & Qui Nhon
SHUFLY locations in South Vietnam 1962-1965
Posted by Admin on 2006-09-07 |  | WHERE IS VIETNAM???
Here is a MAP for those that did not serve or just for you to use to explain to others that did not serve.
Posted by Admin on 2006-09-07 |  | USMC "I" CORPS MAP 1968
I CORPS MAP 1968
Posted by Admin on 2006-05-25 |  | \"I CORPS\" area of operations map.
"I CORPS" area of operations map.
Posted by Admin on 2006-03-05 |  | MMAF MAP
Oustanding MMAF MAP from our BROTHER MARINE
webmaster is Bill McBride.
billm@grunt.appliedphysics.swri.edu
Bill McBride,
Principal Engineer
Applied Physics Division
3rd Reconnaissance Battalion
U.S. Marine Corps
Vietnam "67-"68
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