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CH-21s at Vĩnh Long, February 1963 Airfield facilities, October 1964.jpg The base was originally established in 1963 approximately 3 km west of Vĩnh Long and 48 km southwest of Mỹ Tho . The base was named after Captain Roger Gauvin and SP5 Carleton Upton of the 114th Aviation Company who were killed in action on 15 March 1964.
File:Vinh Long, September 1967.png. Add languages. ... Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USACE LNO trip slides Vietnam 9.250 from https://cdm16021.contentdm ...
At the beginning of 1967 the United States was engaged in a steadily expanding air and ground war in Southeast Asia. Since its inception in February 1965, Operation Rolling Thunder, the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, had escalated in the number and significance of its targets, inflicting major damage on transportation networks industry, and petroleum refining and storage facilities.
1st Infantry Division operations in Binh Guong Province that extended to include the Loc Ninh area of Bình Long Province after PAVN/VC attacks on Loc Ninh on 29 October 1967. The Battle of Ong Thanh took place when U.S. forces were ambushed by a superior communist force. Bing Guong and Bình Long Provinces. Sep 29 – Oct 11
near Đức Phổ, South Vietnam: May 15, 1967: As a helicopter pilot, reinforced and then evacuated an embattled unit despite intense hostile fire Thomas J. Kinsman: Army: Private First Class: near Vĩnh Long: February 6, 1968: For smothering a grenade blast with his body to protect those around him —
The year of 1967 started badly for the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF). During the early years of the war, the rules of engagement prevented U.S. fighter-bombers from hitting North Vietnamese air bases, and that allowed North Vietnamese fighter pilots to attack American bomber formations as they were approaching their targets, thereby forcing U.S. pilots to jettison their bomb loads before ...
Ngo Vinh Long, a Vietnamese scholar and writer famous for anti-war demonstrations that angered the South Vietnamese government in the 1960s, died on Oct. 12 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bangor ...
The squadron was activated on 1 April 1967 at a commissioning ceremony at Vung Tau Air Base with four detachments: Detachment 1 (formerly HC-1 Detachment 29) on USS Hunterdon County; Detachment 2 (formerly HC-1 Detachment 27) at Nhà Bè Base; Detachment 3 (formerly HC-1 Detachment 25) at Vĩnh Long Airfield and Detachment 4 (formerly HC-1 ...