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Chu Lai Air Base was a military ... three McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II squadrons arrived at Chu Lai [5] ... of 31 January 1968 as part of the Tet Offensive, the ...
The Tet Offensive [a] was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on 30 January 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies.
Chu Lai PW Collection camp, 1 November 1968. On 31 January 1968 as part of the Tet Offensive Vietcong rockets hit the FLSG Bravo ammunition dump destroying over 600 tons of bombs and bulk explosives. [7]: 583 In September 1968 the 2nd Light Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion returned to the U.S. [7]: 414
Communist forces were told to "crack the sky" and "shake the earth" during the Tet Offensive, but their real victory wasn't on the battlefield.
USAF F-4 Phantom II destroyed on 18 February 1968, during the Viet Cong attack against Tan Son Nhut, during the Tet Offensive Sixteen squadrons of Phantoms were permanently deployed to Indochina between 1965 and 1973, and 17 others deployed on temporary combat assignments. [ 91 ]
The battle of Cholon and Phú Thọ Racetrack began during the early hours of 31 January 1968 and continued until 11 February 1968. The attacks by Vietcong (VC) forces were one of several major attacks around Saigon in the first days of the Tet offensive. The attacks were repulsed with the VC suffering heavy losses and substantial damage to the ...
Phase III of the Tet offensive of 1968 (also known as the August offensive or Third offensive) was launched by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) from 17 August to 27 September 1968. The offensive was divided into two waves of attacks from 17 to 31 August 1968 and from 11 to 27 September of that same year.
A F-4B Phantom from VMFA-314 returns to Chu Lai in September 1968. In 1965, VMFA-314 headed off on board USS Valley Forge for combat operations in South Vietnam . From 1965 to 1970, the squadron flew more than 25,000 combat hours out of Chu Lai Air Base and Da Nang Air Base , and employed more than 100 million pounds of ordnance in support of ...