displaces to 30ks North of Ban Me Bringing citizens and soldiers together to explore military history, military affairs and national security. 5th Special Forces Group Headquarters We were under the command of the 63rd Ordnance Battalion and provided support throughout the II Corp area providing outstanding support. to find that LZ or exact location you were in? July/Aug. Jenny BR 851-550. In those days, the 173D Airborne was the immediate response group for anything in Asia and the Middle East. stuff when you know the method. On. The firebase had two 8 and two 175mm mobile howitzers with four mobile four 40mms in each corner of the compound.I went there as combat medic in march or early apr. The hardest part is to properly locate the grid 68 : C-Btry. VC 7th Division Beginning in the mid-1950s, the grid was indicated by blue ticks around the map at 1,000-meter spacing. Grids: Same area N. & S. as ZA Grids, and W. of ZA grids to the Cambodian Highlands, 1967 Base The resolution in this case is 1 meter, so the MGRS coordinate would represent a 1-meter square, where the easting and northing are measured to its southwest corner. North Vietnam Map. 1400hrs a command, Its 1st of the 5th Div.were op-con to the 3rd Marine Div under armys XXIV Corps. 924-752 LZ UPLIFT QL1 ran thru, 12km SSE Bong Son HHB/7/15th FA 043-225 DAK TO & Spec. 883-018 FSB BAN ME THUOT East C/7/15th 4/68, AQ This map with a MGRS grid will work in most browsers on most devices including cell phones. Open: Tues - Sat Center, CP 020-510 SOUI DOI 25KM ENE Pleiku near Inter-Sect QL19/QL14 to Kontum, BR Additional Operd at LZ Oasis to Approx. I was in an infantry squad that did what ever they had for us that day. East - Qui Nhon to Pleiku At some time during this period, one tube C/7/15, Approx. Then we went to L Z Sharon. was on Con Thien in 1968. A-214, YA There are nearly 200,000 South Vietnamese regulars, militia and irregulars operating in the delta, along with 9,000 U.S. troops, and they have inflicted serious wounds on the enemy. 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Dave Holdorf. I apologize in advance for any misspelled words. What does the term UTM mean? At one reunion of the 173D Airborne Brigade a guest speaker said that the unit had something akin to about 10,000 men serve in it. Here, we have links to maps, and all sorts of other useful data! 15 Nov. 68 : C-Btry. The JPG/PNG files can show almost any data that GISsurfer can display. FORCES: 3rd Marine Division 1st Marine Division 1st Marine Air Wing 36th Tactical Fighter Wing America! 97, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, 2023 Texas Tech University, 2023 Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive. Enari 7/15th FA: Target Pract/Arty. 5 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. This of course, did not sit well with Castro. Let us say that we'd like to map out Leatherneck Square, which is demarkated by the four corners of Con Thien, Gio Lihn, Dong Ha, and Cam Lo. LZs, cities, hamlets and roads using grid locations, we suggest Mike Kelleys Material on this site is provided for purposes of education, criticism, commentary, cultural reporting, entertainment, historical reference, and news reporting/analysis. displaces toward LZ Diamondhead via Pliekunear ROK Tiger Div. displaced to LZ English BS 878-015. In the map (figure 1), which uses the AA scheme, we see that Honolulu is in grid zone 4Q, and square FJ. ( - ) retubed to 175mm at LZ Pony interdicting edge of Kontum, AR 2. Use the Menu button to toggle the MGRS coordinates grid on/off. Good Luck! MY Unit and I FOUGHT SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSIONS IN CENTAL VIETNAM S MOUNTAINOUS AND JUNGLE AREAS (1968 & 1969 while in the 4TH INFANTRY. NVA 3rd Division 5. at various LZs in the BR Grid Coastal Region to include 872-958 BONG SON on QL1 75km NNW Qui Nhon VC Valley: 90-93, BR places, and they also show the direction Again, imagine three digits wide. 1300 Bed, 44th Med. There was also at least one SEAL team from which members rescued LCOL Iceal Hambleton (Bat-21 story) in 1972. Feb. 69. 109-271 CATECKA TEA PLANTATION 5km W. inter/sect QLs 14 & 19W, ZA 19 Oct. 68 : C-Btry. LZ English BS 878-015 and LZ Pony BR 801-829. Elements of 173rd Airborne Brigade 67 : C-Btry. hitting a command detonated land mine 1030hrs. USARV was United States Army- Republic of Vietnam. was GS ( 68 : C-Btry. 25th Division, U.S. Mike ( - ) displaces to LZ Joan, Duc Co. We Were April 1968 to April 1969 896-412 PHU CAT Air Force Base Bordner Field 5km SW Phu Cat, BR 935-467 LZ LINDA 4km ENE PhuCat AFB C/7/15th FA 5/68, CR07-76 The military uses their own implementation of the UTM system, called the. As the recent battles of Loc Ninh, Bu Dop and Dak To proved, the Communists are still able to mount major actions that effectively tie up thousands of U.S. troops who otherwise could be used in search-and-destroy operations or the pacification program. Near the equator, the columns of UTM zone 1 have the letters AH, the columns of UTM zone 2 have the letters JR (omitting O), and the columns of UTM zone 3 have the letters SZ. A higher value in the last three digits of the grid coordinate It should have started in March 1966 until April 1977 on Hanoi and the joint cities involved. 616-608 LZ JUPITER 23km NE AnKhe ( AN KHE: BR48-43, Pass: BR582-438 reflects a more exact location of all LZs. You can then use the GeoJPG web app (I am the developer) to install the JPGs on your phone or tablet and view those JPGs as an *offline* map with geolocation and the MGRS grid turned on. Where can I get (purchase) a 1968 Vietnam war map with corps listed like above? displaced to LZ Linda BR 935-467. fr, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20192, Region 2: South Atlantic-Gulf (Includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Region 12: Pacific Islands (American Samoa, Hawaii, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). 218-342 PZ MUSTANG III ( PZ = Troop Pick-up Zone ), ZA The identification consists of a column letter (AZ, omitting I and O) followed by a row letter (AV, omitting I and O). casualties in two days of fighting. And though this is something that cannot be proved statistically, it is an opinion shared by men who have years of combat experience. UpLift, BS Apr. his name R.J. Goupil. Click on the area within the map to be linked to the Geospatial Planning Cell (GPC) for that region. I was sent on a mission to deliver ammo, food, and med supplies to a base that was under attack. I was stationed with USARV when we made the move. 460-245 Le Thanh Dist. displaces to LZ Oasis ZA 114-275. He was interested in why we were having outstanding success compared to other support units in Vietnam. You can now use GISsurfer to take a series of screenshots that exactly adjoin. and various unit daily logs, archives, and history references including Firebases 22 Apr.68 : C-Btry. Quang Tin, Quang Ngai, Hue, Da Nang, II Corps The Vietnam war was fought in southeast Asia, mainly in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos between the US backed South Vietnam and the Soviet back North Vietnam. 2-548s sent to LZ Vera YA834-178 to pull YA 100, BR 88-99 LZ GRAY QL14 50km SSE Pleiku named: As mentioned above, when converting UTM coordinates to an MGRS grid reference, or when abbreviating an MGRS grid reference to lower precision, one should truncate the coordinates, not round. 240-501 Pleiku Heliport 3km NNW Pleiku, ZA Tim was sent to Japan, then state-side. 844-252 LZ JOAN up to 3km SE. How are UTM coordinates measured on USGS topographic maps? 1st Tactical Fighter Wing digits of the number would be farther West, a higher value than .477 would be Finally, The Military Personnel Records Center in St Louis, MO has all retired records that survived their fire a couple decades ago. As you zoom in the grid will become more detailed. Maps of North and South Vietnam. Distribution of forces in Vietnam 1968, Vietnam War memory quiz events 1946-1964, Vietnam War memory quiz events 1965-1975, Vietnam War memory quiz terms and concepts (I), Vietnam War memory quiz terms and concepts (II). 1st Marine Division The third part of an MGRS coordinate is the numerical location within a 100,000 meter square, given as n + n digits, where n is 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. Kennedy must share his part in the fiasco. at various LZs in the BR Grid Coastal Region to include by 15th Historian Dan Gillotti. Also see at LZ Oasis. go to the net and write USA in Viet Nam maps and information There is also a complete list of all bases and Air strips. 888-570 LZ HAMMOND W. side QL1, 10km NNW Phu Cat, BR I never stopped loving him. also I had a picture that he gave me when he joined in his white uniform .I lost that when we moved.do you know if there is anywhere I can get another one?? Grids: Due South of CR Grids, along E. Coast, CP I departed Vietnam in June of 1966. Hydrographic/Topographic Center. Pleiku AF Base. The row letters go from A to Z, omitting I and O. The first two letters are 80-84 to BR86-77 506 VALLEY 18km S. Bong Son, 9km W. QL1, BR FORCES: Its not a crumbling army. Thanks for visiting and for supporting a small business! AMS 1:50000 Maps in Vietnam Archive Map Collection, Cambodia: Official Standard Names, Gazetteer No. 625-556 HAPPY VALLEY 20km NW AnKhe 22NVA Regt. distance of .435 of the entire distance between the top and bottom lines. were installed previously. A photo was sent to Kennedy, the United Nation, Ho Chi MIn and he said that it was there to protect the people from the aggressive Americans who want to take over the country. 815-309 LZ KAREN 7km due W. LeThanh, 6km NW DucCo, YA Our scheduled time on the hill was 3 days up and 4 days down. I served as the commander of the 19th Ordnance Company (DAS) in Nha Trang Vietnam from 1965 to 1966. FA at LZ Action for direct fire into surrounding mountains. When you read a map army, you can either. 053-322 6th CONVALESCENT HOSP. YA 035-535 LZ BLACKHAWK N. side QL19E, 25km ENE Pleiku at Suoi Doi, BR Moreover, Westmorelands success in forcing his enemy to retreat from populated areas to frontier sanctuaries along the borders of Cambodia and Laos may not be an unalloyed blessing. Seniors, students, and teachers with valid IDs -$8.00Members,children under 12, First Responders, and Active Military - FREE 340-461 OLD FRENCH FORT Grp. For a refresher in the use of the Military Grid Reference System click here MGRS. Index to Maps of East Asia and North Pacific 1:4,350,000 1203 Index to Maps of USSR 1:4,000,000 1204 Index to World Outline Maps - Area 1:10,000,000 1:20,000,000 1304W Index to World Road Maps 1:1,000,000 1306 Index to East Asia Road Map 1:1,1250,000 1308 Index to Middle East Briefing Map 1:1,500,000 1404 Index to Maps of World 2201 2 Feb. 68 : C-Btry. Highlands, 7/17th Cav Regiment (AIR) - Highlands Theres no way of knowing what would have transpired. Tickets available upon arrival. In the 173D the supply people kept the majority of their gear locked away in metal boxes called conex steel transport boxes so they could be ready to move 24/7/365. that some locations have more than one grid due to either being large, or BR indicating that the BR Grid is within the four red lines. The best accuracy (within about 10 meters) is obtained on devices with a built in GPS chip such as smart phones which can directly receive satellite GPS signals. Those screenshots can show any public GIS data. Just do your search on all of this info by writing After the US withdrawal, the North reinvaded in 1975 and unified the country under communist rule. NVA 2nd Division But U.S. military men nonetheless argue that the performance of VC units in the delta is not what it used to be. Thout on ( - ) retubed to 8-Inch, both platoons Plus. They gave out rank like it was candy bars. Then he said, Imagine that! is located at BR477435, which is actually BR 477-435. French Indochina 1913 4. End Game! at Phu Cat w/Unit to set up base-camp, using Grid Line Coordinates, and go from there. It is true that on at least two recent occasions RVNAF units have scored impressive victories over the Viet Cong. 1st Brigade of 4th Infantry Division | News | 4 Military Regions (MR) 35th Tactical Fighter Wing 962-855 LZ BRILLO PAD 10km SW Polei Kleng, YB version of the Adobe software, including the IRS web site, and the link Corps IV LZs and other locations are usually given by Grid The UTM system consists of 60 zones, each 6-degrees of longitude in width. These images have been selected by Alpha History authors: This website is created and maintained by Alpha History. "Davo" Holdorf. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. NOTE: below: QL19 Now that you know, have fun looking around! The strikes were just across the border. Then you can name, save, and share the map! tried to draw them as close as possible as they really are. NVA 368th B Regiment Most Five VC Main-Force Battalions FORCES: AO ( also: BR82-65 ), BR Users can search by map title, subject, scale, or find a location using latitude and longitude (use the gazetteers listed below or on the maps search page to find latitude and longitude for locations in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and North and South Vietnam). In which case, each side is equal to the number of 1000. Rds 568/569, YA These are mid-Feb. 69 : C-btry. 797-348 ARTILLERY HILL in Camp Enari, Pleiku, AR You can also get our free newsletter, follow us on Facebook & Pinterest. 23rd Division, U.S. during the Vietnam War, (Note: I Corps was north and See the RED letters We can now enter it into the MGRS / USNG to Latitude and Longitude calculator. 4 Sept. 67 : C-Btry. An We were the 362nd Signal Co. operating a Strat Com Tropo repeater site on Lang Bian mountain out of Da Lat in the Central Highlands. Measure the distance between the places marked on the map. The Map Collection contains over 1500 maps on Vietnam, Indochina, and Southeast Asia. detonated For the row letters, there are actually two alternative lettering schemes within MGRS: If an MGRS coordinate is complete (with both a grid zone designation and a 100,000 meter square identification), and is valid in one lettering scheme, then it is usually invalid in the other scheme, which will have no such 100,000 meter square in the grid zone. The zones are numbered 1-60, beginning at 180-degrees longitude and increasing to the east. Did married couples really sleep in separate beds back in the 50s? Maps: I ( - ) displaced to LZ, 3 Mar. 685-420 LZ DIAMONDHEAD Binh Khe 22km ESE AnKhe on QL19E C/7/15 68, BR The base was in the delta somewhere around My Tho. Grid believed the Red Team Troop C, 7/17, Dec. 68 to late Jan. 69: C-btry. General Westmoreland was stationed at USARV headquarters at Tan Son Nhut and in early 1967 moved to Long Bien about 20 miles up highway 1 to the north. areas/digits. App to create, save and exchange Military Maps according to MIL-STD-2525 and STANAG APP-6. I respect you for your service. 1969, 4th The USGS has alimitednumber of 1:50,000-scale maps available for the United States. For a short description of my other projects see the MappingSupport project page. A topographic map tells you where things This supposedly was the reason for the U.S. entering the war. This same notation is used in both UTM and MGRS, i.e. 27 Mar. Therefore, a position reported in a modern datum usually cannot be misunderstood as using an old datum, and vice versa provided the datums use different MGRS lettering schemes. He was in VietNam from 1968-1969. 2-548s sent to LZ Vera YA834-178 to pull The boundaries of the latitude bands are parallel circles (dashed black lines in figure 1), which do not coincide with the boundaries of the 100,000-meter squares (blue lines in figure 1). We staid until the river went down. trail, BR During A Indochina 1954 7. Pleiku, w/GS ( - ) Hip-Shoot mission to Kontum and C-Btry. Locations - Summer 1969, Provinces 114-670 PLEI MRONG 23km NW Pleiku, 25km SW Kontum SF Camp, ZA A majority of the maps in this collection come from the Army Map Service with the remainder from such public sources as National Geographic. 223-520 MANG YANG PASS QL19 26km WNW AnKhe & W. to Suoi Doi, BR the lower left corner of BR Grid which is located where all the grids AR, BR, AQ, Measure direct distances using a scale. Then give each section an amount or value of 100 Numbers. are and how to get to them, whether LZ NORTH ENGLISH Bong Son N. of LZ ENGLISH, BR Linda and Jenny ROK. So This division produces lines that are 10,000 meters apart. stream
Hwy 1 - Duc Pho South to Tuy Hoa, Upper You can use the other grid to start the location method. Notice Do you use ATAK? The 6 wide UTM zones, numbered 160, are intersected by latitude bands that are normally 8 high, lettered CX (omitting I and O). of Duc Co AF, YA The 108 degree East longitude line separates the ZA and AR grids in the Pleiku Grids: East of Pleiku, same as ZA Grids North to South, AR On computers without a GPS chip, Latitude and Longitude are guesstimated by Google based on your IP address and the known locations of the nearest WIFI access points and their addresses. The Central Highlands area in South Vietnam, consisting of 12 provinces, and the largest of the four corps in size. "Davo" Holdorf. Notice that is says, "Missing Zone Number." To see which maps are available for sale(or free digital download), go to the onlineUSGS Store: The USGS doesnot have a complete set of NGA 1:50,000 maps for the United States. However, you still use the same system to figure out Where You Were! 27 Jan. 68 : C-btry. as an over-lay. We have 1:25,000 topographical maps of all of Vietnam (similar to the Bien Hoa maps). South. Explore the crucial elements of the Vietnam War in this interactive map. 7/15th deactivated, the major enemy units reportedly located within or on the boundaries is a great book that gives Nonetheless, the U.S. command in Saigon believes that Hanoi has not been able to keep pace with the Viet Congs attrition rate and that, as a consequence, total enemy troop strength has declined over the past year. If we zoom in on Hawaii (figure 2), we see that the square that contains Honolulu, if we use 10km resolution, would be written 4QFJ15. 1st Division Search the Digital Collections representing our digitized holdings across a wide spectrum of materials include artifacts, prints, posters, maps and more. are those used by the 7/15th FA. the grid, the first ( 3 ) three numbers are the ( E ) East coordinates, the last displaces to An Khe for a short fire mission, 109-273 LZ OASIS 3rd BN, 4th INF DIV AO Forward Fire Base, ZA area, likewise the ZB and AS grids to the north in the Kontum area. If a 100-meter resolution is enough, 3 + 3 digits suffice; if a 1km resolution is enough, 2 + 2 digits suffice; if 10km resolution is enough, 1 + 1 digits suffice. FA Batteries May 1968 - May 1969, Major US Army Unit con thien 68 1/61 5th inf. I was Senior Advisor to the 33rd and 34th Ranger Bns.in 1971. 104 S. Michigan Ave. HOSP. Data Download Sites Sites used by Geospatial Engineers to support SSGF data creation for. -j\/YTlA}>sXIfqi'MlQdbXj
;fWdt1R)x^[L]\Te]A+eE +XWt~^>l0i D>` gVYn}."69Il, NGA Guidance for the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS). This is before we entered the war on the ground. Quang Duc, Lan Dong, Binh Thuan, Can Raah, III Corps Central Highlands, in the 7/15th's former Area of Operations (AO). While there, unit experienced sappers Note: ClickAmericana.com features authentic historical information, and is not intended to represent current best practices on any topic, particularly with regard to health and safety. Name to the RED DOT, thats the exact location as per grid numbers. Much enemy activity in the area. end 6wks Oper. Note 15 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. Author Dave Holdorf Dec. 68 to late Jan. 69: C-btry. These maps describe the shape of the 67 at Binh Khe. Figures apart, most U.S. commanders in the field are convinced that there has been a marked decline in the past few months in the combat effectiveness of enemy troops.
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