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Mar 11: Operation Stingray II [1] 173rd Airborne Brigade clear and search operation: Bình Định Province: Mar 12 – 14: Operation Lulu [1] 3rd Brigade, 9th Infantry Division, 199th Infantry Brigade, ARVN 46th Regiment and 5th Ranger Group clear and search operation: Long An Province: Mar 15 – May 2: Operation Maine Crag [1] [5]: 63–4
Operation Menu was the codename of a covert United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970. The supposed targets of these attacks were PAVN/VC sanctuaries and base areas used for resupply, training, and resting between campaigns across the border in ...
March 12: Kollman, Glenn E: Commander: US Navy: VA-35, USS Enterprise: Operation Rolling Thunder: North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin: Pilot of A-6A # 152943that ditched on launch [104] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] March 12: Rogers, Edward F: Private First Class: USMC: 2nd Battalion 4th Marines: South Vietnam, Quảng Trị Province
The Nixon Administration embarked upon a policy of "Vietnamization", or turning over ground combat to the South Vietnamese. Despite the name, significant numbers of American troops continued to fight in Vietnam in 1969 and onward; the scaling back was gradual, and the US continued to support South Vietnam heavily in supplies and with air power.
At the time of the battle, there were 12 Green Beret advisers and three companies of CIDG numbering 400 in total, alongside two M42A1 tanks and a 175mm artillery battery. [ 1 ] In March 1969 one platoon of the 69th Armor Regiment 's 1st Battalion, Company B under Captain John P. Stovall was stationed at Ben Het, equipped with M48 Patton tanks .
South Vietnam, South China Sea: His F-100D crashed at sea offshore of Tuy Hoa Air Base while returning from a night bombing mission [28] Presumptive finding of death [3] March 7: Gates, Albert H: Captain: USMC: HMM-263: South Vietnam, South China Sea: Pilot of CH-46D #154808 that crashed at sea offshore of Danang [29] Killed in action, body not ...
South Vietnam March 11–12, 1966 Helicopter commander Ricardo C. Binns: Marine Corps Corporal Hill 488, Quảng Tín Province Jun 15–16, 1966 Despite being wounded in both legs, he directed the fire of seven Marines in his scout team to repulse an NVA battalion throughout the night. William C. Bird Marine Corps Private First Class
In December 1969 Kissinger tried to get more strikes on "lucrative targets" in North Vietnam. On March 10 a pipeline located in North Vietnam by the Mu Gia Pass was wrecked. When the government in Cambodia changed the US became more concerned. On April 3 a second pipeline operation had failed but Headquarters encouraged them to keep trying