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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:
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.
Song Mao was located north of Route 1 approximately 56 km northeast of Phan Thiết and 67 km southwest of Phan Rang. [1] Special Forces Detachment A-113 was based here from October 1963. [2] The 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry was based here in early December 1967 for Operation Klamath Falls [3] [self-published source] and returned here again in ...
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
On 1 January 1997, it was again split into two provinces, Bình Dương and Bình Phước. The separation revealed the regional inequality within the former province: While Bình Dương is one of the most industrialised provinces in southern Vietnam, Bình Phước is one of the least industrialised - in the late 1990s even less ...
The result of this action was 40 PAVN killed, 1 Special Forces soldier killed, 1 CIDG soldier killed and 7 CIDG soldiers wounded. [ 3 ] : 114–5 On 23 March 1967, two CIDG companies from the camp engaged a reinforced PAVN company approximately 10 km east of camp. 20 PAVN were killed in this action along with another estimated 40 killed by air ...
The ARVN took over the base and at the start of the Battle of An Lộc in April 1972 it was defended by a battalion of the 7th Regiment, 5th Division [4] and was also the base for the 9th Regiment. [ 4 ] : 55 A combined 105mm and 155mm artillery battery was also based at Quản Lợi.