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Fire support base Crook, Vietnam, 1969. A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) is a temporary military facility used to provide fire support (often in the form of artillery) to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps.
Firebases in the U.S.-involvement Vietnam War, were a type of military base, usually fire bases.. It may refer to: Firebase 6, Central Highlands; Firebase Airborne, central South Vietnam
For the period of the Vietnam War the totals are 1,310,000 between 1955 and 1964, 1,700,000 between 1965–74 and 810,000 between 1975 and 1984. (The estimates for 1955–64 are much higher than other estimates). The sum of those totals is 3,091,000 war deaths between 1955 and 1975. [5] Uppsala University in Sweden maintains the Armed Conflict ...
The cumulative totals of casualties in the O'Reilly area from 6 August to 7 October were 570 PAVN killed and 61 ARVN and two U.S. killed. Units of the ARVN 1st Regiment received 115 attacks by fire which consisted of more than 2,700 rounds of mixed 60, 82 and 120 mm mortar fire.
The firebase was first established on 17 March 1970 by the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 35 km northwest of Tây Ninh and approximately 5 km from the Cambodian border. [3] Twenty bunkers built into a 4 feet (1.2 m) high earthen berm formed the post's defenses, with Claymore mines placed outside the fortifications.
A war casualty is a military person who is killed, wounded, imprisoned, or missing as a result of war; or a non-military person killed or wounded (civilian casualties). The term casualty is sometimes confused with the term fatality (death).
The New York Times, citing Social Security Administration death records, also reported Calley's death. Calls to numbers listed for Calley's son, William L. Calley III, were not returned. American ...
The base was occupied by the 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 138th Artillery when it was assaulted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 4th Regiment on the night of 19 June 1969, the assault was repulsed for the loss of 13 U.S. (including 9 Kentucky Army National Guardsmen from the 138th Artillery) and 23 PAVN killed ...