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One of three principal People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) infiltration routes, corridor 1-A crossed the Cambodian frontier near the border between Kien Phong and Kiến Tường Provinces, traversed the maze of canals through the Plain of Reeds and ended in the watery wasteland called the Tri Phap (known as Base Area 470 by Allied intelligence) where those provinces join Dinh Tuong Province.
It was also the focus of two major enemy infiltration corridors from Cambodia. One, Corridor 1A generally paralleled the boundary between Kien Phong and Kien Tuong Provinces into the key PAVN/VC base, the Tri Phap, at the junction of Kien Phong, Kien Tuong, and Dinh Tuong Provinces. The other, Corridor 1B, came out of Cambodia's Svay Rieng ...
Operation Coronado X conducted by the U.S. Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) and the ARVN, was originally planned as a sweep of western Dinh Tuong Province and eastern Kien Phong Province, however with the outbreak of the Tet Offensive on 31 January 1968 it instead became the MRF reaction to eject VC forces from Mỹ Tho and Vĩnh Long. The operation ...
January 6: A South Vietnamese policeman in Tan Chu, Kien Phong Province, was shot and killed while members of his family looked on. January 7: An explosion destroyed a school and health station in Hồng Ngự District, Kien Phong Province. January 8: In An Xuyên Province, VC threw a grenade into the house of a hamlet chief.
PAVN Military Region 2 included eight of the Delta provinces; in the north, Châu Đốc, which contained the PAVN base in the Seven Mountains on the Cambodian border; to the east, Kien Phong and Kiến Tường, with the vast marshy area of the Plain of Reeds; to the south of these three border provinces, the central Mekong provinces of An ...
Kiến An (Cai Tài Market) Prefecture. Counties: Kiến Hưng; Kiến Hòa; Định Viễn Prefecture. Counties: Vĩnh Bình; Vĩnh Trị; Tuy Biên Prefecture. Counties: Tây Xuyên; Phong Phú; Hà Dương; Hà Âm (Hà Âm county, which is north of Vĩnh Tế Canal, is now part of Takéo province, Cambodia). An Biên Prefecture. Counties ...
Binh Dinh Province: Sep 2 – 6: Operation Dan Chi 261 [2] [36] ARVN operation: An Xuyen and Bạc Liêu Provinces: 21 Sep 2 – 29: Operation Benning V [1] 3/1 Cavalry security operation: Bình Định Province: Sep 3: Operation Decatur [1] 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment security operation: Quon Loi – An Loc: Sep 4 – 6: Operation ...
Operation Truong Cong Dinh (also known as Operation People's Road), was a United States and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) security operation to reestablish South Vietnamese control over the northern Mekong Delta in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive.