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[28]: 35 Meanwhile, the brigade's infantry elements were choppered directly into the Khe Sanh area. By 5 February, Route 9 had been secured up to the Laotian frontier. [22]: 330–1 Simultaneously, the 101st Airborne Division began a feint into the A Shau Valley in order to draw PAVN attention away from Khe Sanh. At the combat base, poor ...
Expendable Warriors – The Battle of Khe Sanh and the Vietnam War. Westport, Connecticut & London: Praeger International Security. ISBN 978-0-275-99480-8. Donaldson, Gary (1996). America at War Since 1945: Politics and Diplomacy in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-27595-660-8.
In 1971, Khe Sanh was reactivated by the U.S. Army (Operation Dewey Canyon II) to support Operation Lam Son 719, the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos. On the night of 23 March a PAVN sapper attack on Khe Sanh resulted in 3 Americans killed and several aircraft and 2 ammunition dumps destroyed, PAVN losses were 14 killed and 1 captured. [4]
Khe Sanh Combat Base, reactivated to support Operation Lam Son 719, was abandoned once again. [16]: 96 In a press conference, Nixon claimed that "Tonight I can report that Vietnamization has succeeded." and announced the withdrawal of a further 100,000 troops from South Vietnam between May and November 1971.
On 18 September at 03:00 35 km southeast of Khe Sanh, aircraft of Company C, 2/17th Cavalry were conducting a forward looking infrared mission when they located and attacked 40 PAVN killing 18. On 20 September west of Gio Linh, a UH-1 from Company C, 158th Assault Helicopter Battalion was shot down while inserting a reconnaissance team from the ...
1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division, 101st Airborne Division and 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment operation to support the ARVN Operation Lam Son 719 effort to open Route 9 through Khe Sanh to the Laotian border and to reestablish Khe Sanh as a major combat support base: Route 9: estimated 75 Feb 2 – Mar 8: Operation Ivy [1]
A Marine stands watch during mass on Hill 950. The base was located approximately 3.5 km north of Khe Sanh. [1]The base was first established by the Marines in late 1966. [2]
From October 1966 until 15 February 1967 the unit also assumed responsibility for ATC services at the Khe Sanh Combat Base. At the same time control of Khe Sanh was divested the unit assumed responsibility for providing services at the An Hoa Combat Base. MATCU-68 remained in Vietnam until June 1971 when it was relocated to Okinawa, Japan.