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The U.S. Army base was established in 1965. [2] Red tents for refugees from Operation Cedar Falls at Phu Loi, 29 January 1967 Phu Loi, 23 September 1967. The 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division comprising: 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment [3] 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment [3]: 143 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment [3]: 143
Troops moved in, removed all of the inhabitants (and 2,500 from surrounding villages) to a resettlement area at the Phu Loi Base Camp, then burned the houses and crops and leveled the city with Rome plows, the large armored bulldozers used by Army engineers. [73]
[1]: 31 At midday on 27 June, a unit of the ARVN 25th Division found 126 rockets 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Saigon, while Phu Loi Base Camp was hit by 15 mortar rounds. [1]: 32 On 28 June, units of the 1st and 3rd Brigades, 9th Infantry Division, engaged an enemy company 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Bến Lức.
The Phu Loi Prison for Viet Minh prisoners and later opponents of the Ngo Dinh Diem government is now a museum.(). Little remains of the airfield built by the Japanese in the Second World War and subsequently used by U.S. Army aviation units during the Vietnam War.
Route 16 near Phu Loi: 3 May 17 – 27: Operation Thunder Dragon [1] [25] ROK 2nd Marine Brigade search and destroy operation: Quảng Ngãi Province: 147: 14 May 17 – Dec 7: Operation Diamond Head [1] 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division search and destroy operation: Michelin Rubber Plantation, Ho Bo Woods and the Trapezoid, Bình Dương and ...
Operation El Paso II officially concluded on 13 July. Operation El Paso III was then launched by the 1st Brigade in the same area and continued until 3 September with negligible results. Total US casualties were 125 killed, while the US/MACV claimed VC losses were 825 killed through body count, with a further 1,249 estimated killed. [1]: 324 [2]
It was linked by a major highway with the large ARVN Phu Loi Base Camp and, farther east, with Bien Hoa Air Base. Lying as it did in the center of the Saigon River corridor, at the junction of Highways 13 and 1, and only 16 km from the outskirts of Saigon, Phú Cường was vital to the defense of Saigon. [3]: 99
On 1 April the Division departed Ninh Bình Province and began moving south, then turned west along Route 9 into Laos and down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. [3]: 401 In late April the Division was located north of Saigon and on 30 April it captured Phu Loi Base Camp. [3]: 419