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Jalibah Southeast Air Base (Abandoned 1991) US Military Designations: Camp/LSA Viper United States Marine Corps Camp, 2003. K-1 Air Base; US Military Designations: COB K-1 United States Army Contingency Operating Base, turned over to Iraqi Army 2011. K-2 Air Base (Bayji AB) Former Iraqi Air Force hardened "Super Base" US Military Designation ...
Military installations of the United States in Laos (5 P) Military installations of the United States in South Vietnam (3 C, 19 P) Military installations of the United States in Thailand (1 C, 4 P)
It was one of several air bases built and used by the United States Air Force (USAF) during the Vietnam War. Cam Ranh Air Force Base was part of the large Cam Ranh Bay logistics facility built by the United States. It was the major military seaport used by the United States for the offloading of supplies, military equipment and as a major Naval ...
The base was adjacent to the headquarters of the Joint General Staff of South Vietnam, and was a key venue in various military coups, particularly the 1963 coup that deposed the nation's first President Ngô Đình Diệm. The plotters invited loyalist officers to a routine lunch meeting at JGS and captured them in the afternoon of 1 November 1963.
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On 22 September 1940, the Vichy Government signed an agreement with Japan allowing the Japanese to station troops in Tonkin and use three airfields there. [1] On 14 July 1941, the Japanese sent the French an ultimatum demanding the use of bases in Annam and Cochinchina, the French acquiesced and by late July, the Japanese occupied Cam Ranh Bay, Bien Hoa Air Base and Tourane Airfield.
An Hòa was located southeast of a major Vietcong (VC)/People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) base area known as the Arizona Territory across the Vu Gia River. [ 2 ] : 41 The base was first used by the Marines in January 1966 during Operation Mallard when the 1st Battalion, 12th Marines established a firebase there while the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines ...
At the start of the Easter Offensive in 1972 the base was defended by a company of the ARVN 72nd Rangers and a platoon from the 42nd Regiment. [8] On 25 April 1972 during the Battle of Kontum after the PAVN had overrun the ARVN bases at Tân Cảnh and Đắk Tô, Firebases 5 and 6 along Rocket Ridge were abandoned. [9]