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The Battle of Sông Bé was a major action between the Viet Cong (VC) and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in May 1965. Planned as a major show of force against the ARVN forces, the VC attempted to capture the fortified capital of Phước Long Province, Sông Bé. Perhaps to their surprise, ARVN forces in the area rallied and re-took the ...
[1]: 77 The Battle of Song Be was fought around the base in May 1965. On 10 April 1966 the 173rd Airborne Brigade moved to Sông Bé for Operation Denver and remained there until the end of April. The 199th Light Infantry Brigade was based at Sông Bé from December 1966 to February 1967. [2] The 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division comprising:
Bình Phước province is the result of a merger of two former provinces: Phước Long province and Bình Long province, which existed before reunification. [5] Both Phước Long and Bình Long then became part of Sông Bé province in 1976, which also included Bình Dương province.
Location of Sông Bé Province on a map of Vietnam in 1976. Sông Bé was a province in southern Vietnam, which bordered Cambodia to the north, Lâm Đồng to the east, Đắk Nông to the northeast, Hồ Chí Minh City to the south and Tây Ninh to the west.
Operation Hump was a search and destroy operation initiated by United States and Australian forces on 5 November 1965, during the Vietnam War.. The US-Australian objective was to drive out Viet Cong (VC) unit who had taken up positions on several key hills in War Zone D in an area about 17.5 miles (28.2 km) north of Bien Hoa.
The first company was extracted at 17:30 and returned to the camp. While searching the area, the new company found an additional 16 PAVN bodies. 25 maps and schematic drawings that were also found indicated that plans were being made to attack the camp and the Bo Duc Subsector. At 19:15 the relief force withdrew to the camp, arriving there at ...
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Bé River, a river of southern Vietnam; Sông Bé Bridge, a destroyed road bridge on the Bé, in Bình Dương province; Sông Bé province, a former Vietnamese province named after the river; Sông Bé Base Camp, a former U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base