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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:
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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 ...
Bình Phước province is the result of a merger of two former provinces: Phước Long province and Bình Long province, which existed before reunification. [5] Both Phước Long and Bình Long then became part of Sông Bé province in 1976, which also included Bình Dương province.
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.
The song reflects on those who served in the Vietnam War and whose names are forever etched in stone at the Vietnam War Memorial. As of this writing, the wall currently has 58,000 names and counting.
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