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Phu Loi airfield was originally established by the Japanese in the 1940s and was located approximately 20 km north of Saigon in Bình Dương Province.During the First Indochina War the base was used by the French as a prisoner of war camp for captured Viet Minh.
Operation Benning V [1] 3/1 Cavalry security operation: Bình Định Province: Sep 3: Operation Decatur [1] 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment security operation: Quon Loi – An Loc: Sep 4 – 6: Operation Cranston [1] 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment security and resupply operation: between Lai Khe and Phu Loi: 52: 2 Sep 4 – 15 ...
[1]: 31 At midday on 27 June, a unit of the ARVN 25th Division found 126 rockets 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Saigon, while Phu Loi Base Camp was hit by 15 mortar rounds. [1]: 32 On 28 June, units of the 1st and 3rd Brigades, 9th Infantry Division, engaged an enemy company 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Bến Lức.
The second engagement in Thebaud’s sector took place south of Phu Loi when Troops A and B from the 1/4th Cavalry, discovered several battalions from the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 165th Regiment hiding in the hamlet of Xom Moi. After giving the residents a chance to flee, the province chief authorized air and artillery strikes.
Operation Coronado II/Operation Son Thang 3 [1] [9]: 252 7MRF 9th Infantry Division, 3/39 Infantry, ARVN 7th Division, 3/47 Infantry search and destroy operation to help provide security for the Dong Tam Base Camp: Dinh Tuong Province, Mỹ Tho River, 73: 9 Jul 8 – Aug 28: Operation Akumu/Xay Duong 12-7 [1]
[1]: 312 On 8 June, Troop A 1/4th Cavalry comprising 9 M48 tanks and 32 other armored vehicles left Phu Loi Base Camp to move to An Lộc. That afternoon near the village of Tau O the lead M48 was disabled by a mine as part of an ambush by 2 battalions of the 272nd Regiment.
Long An Province was believed to shelter the 267th, 269th, and 6th Bình Tân Battalions in the west and the 506th, 508th, 5th Nhà Bè and Phu Loi II Battalions in the east. The VC had successfully established control over most of the province with the result that South Vietnamese Government control was limited to the major towns and outposts ...
The Phu Loi Prison for Viet Minh prisoners and later opponents of the Ngo Dinh Diem government is now a museum.(). Little remains of the airfield built by the Japanese in the Second World War and subsequently used by U.S. Army aviation units during the Vietnam War.