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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.
[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 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.
Operation El Paso II officially concluded on 13 July. Operation El Paso III was then launched by the 1st Brigade in the same area and continued until 3 September with negligible results. Total US casualties were 125 killed, while the US/MACV claimed VC losses were 825 killed through body count, with a further 1,249 estimated killed. [1]: 324 [2]
Route 16 near Phu Loi: 3 May 17 – 27: Operation Thunder Dragon [1] [25] ROK 2nd Marine Brigade search and destroy operation: Quảng Ngãi Province: 147: 14 May 17 – Dec 7: Operation Diamond Head [1] 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division search and destroy operation: Michelin Rubber Plantation, Ho Bo Woods and the Trapezoid, Bình Dương and ...
5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and 173rd Airborne Brigade operation to receive the 3d Brigade, 4th Infantry Division at the ports of Saigon and Vũng Tàu, and to safeguard the transport to, and initial occupation of, the designated brigade base camp at Ben Cat in Bình Dương Province.
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English: The red tents in the lower left hand corner of the photograph make up the refugee camp constructed near Phu Loi during Operation Cedar Falls. Engineers of the 86th Engineer Battalion and the 1st Engineer Battalion assisted in clearing the area and providing water supply.