It was the first such occurrence since the ceasefire of Jan. 28. Unfortunately for the VC, they had no weapons other than the RPG launcher. An MP full colonel, along with a deputy sheriff from Los Angeles (dressed in his deputy uniform) and two jeeploads of Vietnamese National Police, drove up to my track. The gun-jeeps were progressively replaced by M113s and XM-706 Commando armored cars. [2]:347 Within Bien Hoa AB, the USAF 3rd Security Police Squadron was responsible for security manning bunkers and operating mobile patrols within the base perimeter. A slightly wounded soldier, lying on the ground, smiles as he points to his leg as another soldier helps him. Normally, operations orders issued over the radio were encoded and sent by the S3s radio operator. My plan was to make captain and go to Vietnam as an experienced company commander. CRITICALPAST.COM: At the beginning of the Tet Offensive, one rifle company was ordered to to clear the village of Ho Nai, a Bien Hoa suburb. We could use our tracks as a base of fire or in a blocking position as the company maneuvered on foot. On that fateful night, explosions began at the bomb dump, I immediately responded to CSC as the SP's . was a point where the Ho Chi Min Trail came close to the countrys West During December we made little enemy contact, probably because the Communists were lying low preparing for Tet. When we arrived, we filed off the busses . Now the fight was on. Sand bags near barbed wire fence. 0.08 One reference claims that 4 February 1967 was the date, and another claims that 28 March was the date. Click Here. Hide. The remains of a stack of over 15,000 high explosive 155mm artillery projectiles after the VC attack on February 4. They bowed and looked confused. At the time of the . The ARVN general and III Corps G3 adviser, however, were not happy when we pulled out. Tower ordered Charlie Company to attack eastward to clear the village of Ho Nai, a suburb of Bien Hoa. Toward dark, airstrikes had to be called in to blast the VC from the hill. The 2nd Platoon took on the one on the north side of the road, and the 1st Platoon attacked the other. Several soldiers gathered in front of the track to help the wounded, and Love climbed up to man the .50-caliber. Forget that, he said. A few minutes later, a jeep drove up carrying two extremely frightened white-shirted policemen. After a eventful remember being giddy and my brain was asking What is wrong with me?. They bowed and looked confused. We carried concertina wire, sand bags and hundreds of Claymore mines and trip flares to make our defensive positions practically impenetrable. In addition to the US bases, the city of Bin Ha was the headquarters of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) III Corps and home to a large prisoner of war camp. Vehicles drive past on roads between the Long Binh Post area. Burned out 105mm howitzer shells at ammunition dump in Bien Hoa Air Force Base, Bien Hoa in Vietnam. All of these placements were made with the wrongful assumption that the VC would attack from the jungles outside the base. Views of a number of huts, in the hamlet, that have not been destroyed. The scout platoon had fought . The 2-47 was one of several units he pulled in from the jungles to guard the Long Binh headquarters and logistical complex 15 miles northeast of Saigon. Our arrival had canceled fears that III Corps headquarters might be overrun. border. To get to the church, we had to run a gantlet of fire, through the VC 238th Regiment and into the flank of the 275th, which was fighting the 2-47s scout platoon in Widows Village. VC/PAVN losses were 527 dead. Benny Toney, the 2nd Platoon sergeant, hooked a tow cable to Stormy. License Agreement | About Us | I was not sure what to do about the bunkers. Bill Langan, aka "Sparky" was on duty in the 573rd hanger at the Bird Cage and took the slide photo. USAF (United States Air Force) F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter aircraft drops Mark 82 (Mk.82) high-drag (HD) bombs. 102 comments 105 shares. I explained to the colonel that this was not a police action, and that we werent searching houses, we were in combat. We fired everything we had into the buildings lining the roadway and took several wounded while getting to the church. Flames illuminated the clouds, forming an eerie glow; flares hung in the sky and helicopter gunships crossed back and forth firing red streams of tracers into the city. When I arrived at 9th Division in June, I was shocked to learn that I was going to a mechanized battalion. 6 External links modified. I realize now that the track was high enough that the rounds would have passed over the troops in front of the vehicle, Love recalls. 4 "Late in the war" 1 comment. Ive just been told you work for me again. probably one of the best deals I had been Used for because the The Commo track, C-007, nicknamed Abdula and the Rug Merchants, with Pfc (current Vietnam editor) David Zabecki behind the .50-caliber, brought up the rear. The VC/PAVN attacked the position that night in a 6 hour long assault which was met initially by US mortar and artillery fire, then helicopter gunships and then napalm strikes. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. As the scouts escaped, the volume of enemy fire began to slacken, then died altogether. Back view of jeep with open doors. [American sources in Vien tiane said, as quoted by The Associated Press, that the captured American was prob ably the pilot of a Continent al Air Service plane that was forced to land behind Pathet Lao lines after running out of fuel. Some VC crossed Route 316 and took up firing positions in bush at the southern perimeter of the Plantation. 5. APCs advance, firing 50 caliber machine guns. It involved transfer of powder projectiles and fuses enough to keep unless they could see someone, I went to our Operations shack Several of his tracks were hit by RPGs and surrounded by the enemy. About two days later one the huge fuel bags next 4 Joseph Sugar Bear Dames returned to the tracks for more grenades. Alpha Company, still licking its wounds from the January 23 fight, was left intact. When it went off my first thought was that it was a nuclear explosion because of the light dome that rose from the explosion. As we cleared the ambush, the column suddenly came to a halt because of some kind of block in the road; simultaneously, someone keyed the company net. After commanding 180 paratroopers, taking on four APCs and 40 troops seemed like a dreamexcept that now I was responsible for troops in combat, not training. From our positions we could see and hear the celebratory fireworks lighting the sky over Saigon to the west. Casper rose from the prone position and yelled for his troops to follow him. We could ride, walk or be airlifted to war, travel great distances in a short amount of time, and arrive with many times the ammunition and equipment that could be lifted in by helicopter. As the sun sank low, we closed within a few hundred meters of the scout platoon and watched as helicopter gunships destroyed a large yellow house from which the VC were pinning down Barnes troops. -- color photo Near Moc Hoa. The G3 adviser told me that they had received intelligence that Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese commanding general, had his command post in a Catholic church about 1 kilometer east of III Corps. He said I would have to wait. Less has been written about the danger, turmoil, chaos, confusion, contradictions and outright lunacy that confronted individual units as they responded to VC attacks on the morning of January 31. SOUTH VIETNAM: VIET CONG EXPLODE U.S. His battalion was in heavy contact and he had several wounded rangers he needed to evacuate. By the evening the 2/47th Infantry withdrew into the Long Binh perimeter. 11. The village of Ho Nai, now a ghost town, still smoldered. To ensure you can use all the features please enable it. bunker. Cambodian border to the South China sea was already considered a Troops opened their attacks with volleys of grenades, then charged in shooting. Despite the confusion and wounds, our troops returned fire. was his helmet and flack jacket! At the headquarters of the 2nd Battalion (Mechanized), 47th Infantry (2-47), nicknamed the Panthers, the commander, Lt. Col. Arthur Moreland, asked me what job I wanted. I sat behind the .50-caliber, munching and giving thanks for the fact that, incredibly, nobody in Charlie Company had been killed. In April 1967 I was a first lieutenant commanding a rifle company in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. out of the sky. Blood stains in ambulance. On the morning of 31 January 1968, the Bien Hoa Air Base, III Corps HQ, the Prisoner of War Compound, and other key installations around Bien Hoa--Long Binh area received enemy mortar and rocket fire. I yelled at Lieutenant Casper, and everybody looked around as the VC tore out running the last few yards to safety. OK. I was told to forget about them, which reinforced our feeling that this situation was different and that combat was certainly imminent. In addition, gunships killed many more as they tried to escape from the villages. There was an ammo dump explosion in 1968 also and both 1967 and 1968 are correct and were of course separate incidents. When the shooting started it https://www.historynet.com/tet-offensive-the-battles-of-bien-hoa-and-long-binh/, Jerrie Mock: Record-Breaking American Female Pilot, When 21 Sikh Soldiers Fought the Odds Against 10,000 Pashtun Warriors, Few Red Tails Remain: Tuskegee Airman Dies at 96. At 0400 Jones ordered us to pull in our ambushes and be prepared to move. The G3 adviser told me that they had received intelligence that Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese commanding general (the enemy equivalent of General William Westmoreland), had his command post in a Catholic church about a kilometer east of III Corps. to check-in and see what was going on, and found myself the only As enemy resistance stiffened, we realized we had bottled at least a company of the VC 275th Regiment in the village. During the last week of January, the battalion patrolled the jungles east of Highway 15, near the Binh Son rubber plantation. In the early morning hours on 31 January, insurgent forces launched [3]:218, The town of Ho Nai (105812N 1065335E / 10.970N 106.893E / 10.970; 106.893) was located on Highway 1 north of the Widow's Village and Long Binh Post. from the petroleum dump immediately next to our position. At 4 a.m., Jones ordered us to pull in our ambushes and be prepared to move, and told Charlie Companys noncombatants to report to battalion headquarters. This article was written by John E. Gross and originally published in the February 2008 issue of Vietnam Magazine. We suffered more wounded during the trip back to III Corps, where I was called to a meeting in the headquarters. We had run through the rear of the 274th VC Regiment, which was attacking the airfield. The Long Binh ammo dump had exploded. Long Binh ammo dump was one of the biggest ordnance storage areas in the country. After the battles for the churches, there occurred one of the most bizarre incidents of the day. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the worlds largest publisher of history magazines. Few areas of the world have been as hotly contested as the India-Pakistan border. I sounded off, "who is there"? "I was the 1SGT of the An accurate body count could never be compiled since so many VC bodies were dragged away or were burned in the many fires in the towns and villages. [2]:350, At approximately 16:45 F-100 Super Sabres of the 531st Tactical Fighter Squadron conducted a Napalm strike against a PAVN/VC company at the east end of the base runway. The II Field Force commander, Lt. Gen. Frederick C. Weyand, had correctly predicted a major attack during Tet, and his anticipation no doubt saved Long Binh and Saigon from being overrun. I called battalion headquarters and was told to forget about them, which reinforced our sense that combat was imminent. (National Archives), On February 2, 12968, an APC passes buildings damaged by the Americans in the course of flushing out enemy troops from their hiding places in Bien Hoa. It also contained tons of captured NVA ammo and guns from the A Shau Valley. 0.17 0.54 the bunker. The 2nd Platoon, under Lieutenant Fred Casper, led the way, followed by my track, then Lieutenant Howard Jones 1st Platoon and, finally, the weapons platoon under Lieutenant Don Muir. Aerial view of Long Binh Post in Vietnam. 13. [6]:36 In addition airborne "rocket watch" patrols were established in the Saigon-Bien Hoa area to reduce attacks by fire. Come back up on the battalion freq. I had never been so happy in my life. My Lightboxes | License Agreement | The 2-47 was one of several units General Weyand pulled in from the jungles to guard the Long Binh headquarters and logistical complex 15 miles northeast of Saigon. After we finished clearing the area around the compound and as our wounded were being dusted off, I received an absolutely incredible order from III Corps. As the 2/47th Infantry approached the town a Vietnamese warned that it contained many VC and the VC then launched an ambush on the column knocking out 3 ACAVs with RPGs setting off a 4-hour battle as the US forces engaged the VC position and rescued the survivors in the damaged ACAVs. The VC who had fired the RPG slipped away, but Pfc Jim Love, who was tossed into a sewage ditch by the explosion, remembers killing the jeep with his M-16. Tower had called and told me that Charlie Company was under the operational control of III Corps and I was to take my orders from them. But their 81mm mortars were useless, since we were told we could not put any indirect fire into the town. Summary - October 1966. The three companies formed a line almost three kilometers long, facing to the east, with their backs to the Long Binh wire. Although initially surprised, U.S. forces had reacted quickly. Tower sent Major Jones to take command, and once Alpha got moving, it did a magnificent job. I assigned areas of operation to my two rifle platoons and positioned the weapons platoon inside the compound as a reserve and security force. Although initially surprised, U.S. forces had reacted quickly and, despite what was reported in the press, American and ARVN forces handed the VC a devastating defeat during Tet. Soldiers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion 47th Infantry (Mechanized) and 4th Battalion 39th Infantry clearing a hamlet during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. Charlie Company soldiers, used to months of patrolling and fighting in the jungles, suddenly found themselves fighting house to house as their fathers had done in World War II. Charlie Company had reported 38 VC killed, at the cost of only 11 U.S. wounded and three APCs damaged by RPGs. LONG BINH, South Viet Nam (UPII A thunderous explosion that shook the heart of Saigon 11 miles away ripped through a U.S. ammunition depot tonight and wounded a handful of Americans. On January 23, during a battalion sweep through heavy jungle south of Highway 1, Alpha Company walked into a camouflaged, well-defended enemy bunker system and was badly mauled. I remember one Unconfirmed reports reports said the blasts were . We could shoot about 21 miles into Cambodia. As time passed, I became a mechanized soldier. Those orders were for us to clear the VC from the houses surrounding the corps headquarters. II Field Force commander LG Frederick C. Weyand had also ordered the 9th Infantry Division to be prepared to send its 1st Brigade from Bearcat Base 16km south of Long Binh to Bien Hoa-Long Binh in the event of an attack. 4 Joseph Dames was tasked to return to the tracks for more grenades. The 2nd Platoon led the way under Lieutenant Fred Casper, followed by my track, then Lieutenant Howard Jones 1st Platoon and, finally, the weapons platoon under Lieutenant Don Muir. At least 3,000 tons of ammu nition were reportedly de stroyed in the blasts, which be gan before dawn and continued until midmorning. U.S. military officials vVould not give the exact number of casualties for security reasons. In command for five months, I had been assured that I would be leading the company for one year, which suited me fine. We found out later from captured VC that many guerrillas had been given only two magazines for their weapons. wire on the top of LBJ (Long Binh Jail). Terms & Conditions | On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In January 1968, our battalion relocated to the area between Xuan Loc and Bien Hoa, where intelligence had located a VC battalion. In addition we detained more than 20 probable VC fighters dressed in civilian clothes. Long Binh Ammo Dump October 29, 1966 . I told him about the order to clear an area of operations equal in size to that assigned the airborne battalion. Realizing I had not eaten for 24 hours, I looked for some breakfast, but all I could find was a bag of pistachio nuts. Benny Toney, the 2nd Platoon sergeant, hooked a tow cable to Stormy. After telling them to stop shooting 1. Now someone pointed out that there were a lot of young men, all dressed in black pants and white shirts, among the refugees. Charlie Company quickly reinforced Alpha, and a daylong fight ensued. Sappers had placed satchel charges on pallets of artillery ammunition, and the resulting mushroom cloud caused all its witnesses to think the VC had employed a tactical nuclear weapon. Charlie Company was ordered to a large open field across Highway 15 from the Long Thanh airfield. The platoons attacked by successive bounds through the village as the companys tracks, forming the base of the T on the highway, provided fire support from the .50s and resupplied the troops with ammunition. Policy was to fill in all holes and empty our sandbags when we left a position, to leave nothing the VC might use against us. 15. In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earharts disappearance. I yelled at Lieutenant Casper and everybody looked around as the VC tore out running the last few yards to safety. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp. The attacks were repulsed with the VC/PAVN suffering heavy losses, having inflicted minimal damage on the bases. Specialist 4 Bill Rambo, assistant driver and .50-gunner on my command track, remembers my response to the firing as being absolutely irate. We threw grenades over the wall behind them, but hit nothing.. Long Binh, again (Feb. 1967). Ly's father is a bricklayer. [2]:347, At 01:00, a 6-man LRRP from Company F, 51st Infantry Regiment spotted PAVN/VC moving through rubber trees several hundred meters to the north of Long Binh Post. GV DUMP In addition, we were tremendously flexible. The battalion made only sporadic contact and suffered few casualties. I had assumed I would be assigned to one of the battalions in the Delta where I could use my light infantry and Ranger school experience. charred. When Lieutenant Casper jumped up, our legs became entangled and I tripped him, Ax remembers. 7. Early on January 30, we were told the Tet cease-fire was canceled, and our unit was deployed into a defensive line along the road that ran around the east side of the Long Binh base. I said again, "Who is there"? because Mankato (Minnesota)Vocational school had taught me to weld as Listening to the scouts desperate fight on the radio, Charlie Company attacked with renewed vigor as we tried to get to Barnes and his men. Having been struck by mortars or rockets, the fuel tanks at the air base, as well as several buildings throughout Bien Hoa, were burning brightly. 0.04 January 12, 1972. by: Arnold John Houchin Bin Ha, USAF 3rd Security Police Squadron 1970-1972 Phu Cat, 37th SPS; Thu Hoa, 31st SPS; . [7], The Tet offensive attacks and previous losses due to mortar and rocket attacks on air bases across South Vietnam led the Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze on 6 March 1968 to approve the construction of 165 "Wonderarch" roofed aircraft shelters at the major air bases. The colonel explained that since we were infantry soldiers and did not know the proper method of searching a house, he and his crew had come to teach us. Fires were burning late into the afternoon. while we were gone. maxhightForP2 = 13904; Following that fight, the 2-47 was ordered south of the 9th Divisions base camp. FAQs - How to Order | During this fighting, both platoon leaders were wounded, Lieutenant Casper in the leg and Lieutenant Jones in the foot. As 1st Lt. Brice Barnes led his scouts into Ho Nai, he ran full speed into a hornets nest. Dames walked down a side alley toward the highway. F-100 Super Sabre and F-4 Phantom II drop Mark 82 bombs in Vietnam during U.S. air strikes. In mid-September, when Ionoff moved to battalion headquarters to become the operations officer (S3), I assumed command of Company C. In October, the 2-47 was tasked to secure engineers as they cleared Highway 1 from Xuan Loc to the II Corps boundary near Phan Thiet. Charlie Companys 3rd Platoon was also detached for a security mission inside the base. As the afternoon of January 30 drifted toward dusk, Charlie Company soldiers stripped to the waist and dug bunkers next to their M-113s. Long Binh Vietnam 1969 stock footage and images - Showing 1 to 6 of 5540 results Sort by: All Decade 1890 - 1899 Location (1) Norfolk Virginia USA (2) Normandy France (12) Norman Oklahoma USA (1) (1) (1) North Carolina United States USA (2) North Chicago Illinois USA (1) North Dakota United States USA (1) North Haven Maine USA (1) North Korea (1) As I remember the Tet Offensive began in the early morning of We charged southeast down Highway 316 to the Highway 15 intersection, located on a small hill overlooking the 90th Replacement Company. Later, as the sun sank over the Long Binh base, they tossed a football and ate cold C rations. Construction on the 24 th. (Vietnam War period). ", "We mustered everyone we could When we arrived, we found the churchyard packed with thousands of civilians. Ripped apart barbed wire. [2]:352[3]:2067, At approximately 05:30, the 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, mounted on M113 Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicles (ACAVs) coming from Bearcat approached the Plantation from the southwest and formed a skirmish line to engage the VC, while helicopter gunships from the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment swept in to rocket and machine gun the VC positions. I told the colonel that this was not a police action, that we werent searching houses, we were in combat. As our medics treated the wounded, I reported to the American lieutenant colonel who was the III Corps G3 adviser. [2]:349, The perimeter was strengthened by an ad hoc force of support personnel from the 145th Aviation Battalion and just before midday the ARVN 57th Regional Force Battalion moved through the base and counterattacked the VC forcing them to withdraw east into the rubber plantation leaving behind over 100 dead. I realized we were driving past our objective, halted the company and called for the 2nd Platoon to find a place to turn around. night on alert at the Birdcage, I was awakened (trying to sleep LV DITTO known as Widows Village. THE EXPLOSIONS RATTLED WINDOWS IN SAIGON, ABOUT 13 MILES (20 KILOMETERS) AWAY. 1.19 Fighting our way to the scout platoon, we were stopped when we came upon two large churches, straddling Highway 1, each occupied by VC. GV EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES M-113 APCs of the 9th Infantry Division storm VC positions 200 meters outside II Field Force headquarters at Long Binh on February 1, 1968. Attacking Long I told the platoon leaders to prepare to dismount and to take all the ammunition and grenades they could carry. Their 81mm mortars were useless, since we were told we could not put any indirect fire into the town. 0.42 Website Terms & Conditions | [3]:2289, The Tt ceasefire began on 29 January, but was cancelled on 30 January after the VC/PAVN prematurely launched attacks in II Corps and at 17:30 the 7th Air Force commander General William W. Momyer ordered all air bases in South Vietnam to security condition red. more I was never so happy in my life. At that moment, a burst of VC machine gun fire erupted, causing the colonel, the deputy and their Vietnamese escorts to pile into their vehicles and roar off in the direction from whence they had come. As you know there were no officers It then dawned on us that the VC were throwing down their weapons, changing clothes and slipping away. He assigned one to the airborne battalion and the other to Charlie Company. An eyewitness account of the battle for control of Bien Hoa and Long Binh on the first day of the 1968 Tet Offensive. [3]:23950, In the late afternoon of 31 January after clearing the Widow's Village 2/47th Infantry advanced into Ho Nai from the south, the town appeared deserted. VC informants inside the base had provided detailed information as to the base layout and defenses. I The fog of war was especially thick on the morning of January 31, 1968. He said the first thing he could remember was the Meanwhile, Charlie Company was ordered back to III Corps. LV EXPLOSIONS Alpha Company, still licking its wounds from the January 23 fight, was left intact. Its predominantly Catholic population was made up of many Vietnamese who fled North Vietnam in 1954 after the Viet Minh victory. All night they scanned the jungles with Starlight scopes, seeing nothing. Initials PW/VS/JH/BB/ES PW/VS/JH/ES He ignored me and proceeded to a nearby house where he and the deputy sheriff kicked in the front door. As the C-23 track in the lead, Stormy, turned into a side street, a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) slammed into its front, smashing the radiator and wounding several soldiers. and still no answer. Some were complete projectiles weighing 939939. In Bin Ha itself the 3rd Ranger Task Force, consisting of the 35th and 36th Ranger Battalions, provided a rapid reaction force supported by 2 155-mm howitzer battalions located on the southeast of the city. mortar rounds and 90 122-mm. It was Flames illuminated the clouds, forming an eerie glow; flares hung in the sky and helicopter gunships crossed back and forth firing red streams of tracers into the city. This site was called Hill 63 because there was a hill nearby that had an elevation of 63 meters on the map. So, when I was offered a chance to go to II Field Force to help establish a new long-range reconnaissance patrol outfit, I actually turned it down to stay with the company. Just then a three-man VC RPG team calmly walked across the street right in front of the damaged APC. The Vietnamese brigadier generalthe ranking man at III Corpsdrew circles on a map around two areas of downtown Bien Hoa. When the G3 adviser told me to lend the rangers a track, I told the sergeant that the M-113 was not a tank and to be careful with it. The battle proved significant, as Alphas leadership was seriously depleted immediately prior to Tet. We usually got mortared at night whenever Dong Tam was getting it from our district. 6. A VC commander captured later in the battle revealed that his orders were only to start the attack after several hundred rockets had hit the Plantation, but as the rocket sites had been neutralized before the rocket threshold was reached, the ground assault on the Plantation never began. A spokesman for the South Vietnamese command said that, according to unconfirmed re ports, satchel charges, of the type used by Vietcong sabotage squads were found near the dump. 0.24 Besides the fireworks, ARVN soldiers had linked tracer bullets together and were stitching the darkness with weaving streams of machine gun fire. Later, captured VC said many guerrillas only had two magazines for their weapons in expectation that the population would rise up against the Americans and have plenty of captured weapons to fight with. [2]:3512 US losses in the fighting in the Widow's Village were three dead. As we turned right onto Highway 15, an unbelievable spectacle stretched before us. I operated a heavy five ", "I then went to the CP and tried on the Bailey Compound, only in the 145th CAB HQ which could History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. The bombs descend and explode on structures in grove of trees near rice paddies 23 miles east of Binh Thuy on 19th August.
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