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An LCM-8 transports a 3rd Tank Battalion M48 up the Dong Ha River, 6 July 1967. The base was located at the mouth of the Cửa Việt/Thạch Hãn River approximately 16 km north of Quảng Trị and only approximately 10 km south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). [1]: 5–126 The base was first established by the 3rd Marine Division in 1966 as a logistics and support base for Marine ...
During the mid-watch on January 22, we fired 160 HE rounds into target areas inland of the sand dunes north of the Cua Viet River, just to the south of the DMZ. During this gun fire mission, we did get six or seven rounds of counterbattery fire from NVA positions, but none of the incoming salvos were closer than maybe 400 or 450 yards.
Cua Viet acted as a trans-shipment point for supplies headed for Dong Ha. The detachment’s work was made difficult not only by enemy fire but by the physical environment. Winds and rains of the winter monsoons were particularly harsh at Cua Viet. Outside the river mouth, shoals endangered ships making the 90 nautical mile trip from Da Nang.
The LCU 1475 ran the Perfume and Cua Viet rivers to Phu Bai, Hue, Cua Viet and Dong Ha in I Corps. We worked out of DaNang and most of our crews came out of the "Gator Navy". In '65, as a BM3, I got my assault coxwain training in Little Creek, Virginia. Went "in country" (DaNang) in January, '66.
Again the Cua Viet Facility commander closed the river until the next day when a Navy and Marine underwater demolition team from Dong Ha would sweep the river. This last was too much for General Cushman at III MAF. He radioed Major General Tompkins, the 3d Marine Division commander, that the "interruption to Cua Viet LOC [line of communications ...
The site, on the south bank of the Cua Viet River, was within range of NVA rockets, artillery, and mortars. Sappers often tested the perimeter defenses of the base. During August and September 1967 alone, enemy fire destroyed thirteen 10,000-gallon fuel storage bladders and an ammunition dump. In addition, enemy swimmers and water mines ...
On April 2, the communist forces reached the Dong Ha Bridge over the Cua Viet River in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. Marine Capt. John Walter Ripley, the Senior Advisor to the 3rd Vietnamese ...
Battle of Cửa Việt took place during the Vietnam War between 25–31 January 1973 at the Cửa Việt naval base and its vicinity, in northeast Quảng Trị Province.The battle involved a combined task force of South Vietnamese Marine and armored units that tried to gain a foothold at the Cua Viet Port just as the ceasefire was about to take effect on January 28 in accordance with the ...
This map covers the mouth of the Cua Viet River where 1st. Amphibious Tractor Battalion was located. It includes the villages of My Loc, Mai Xa Chanh and Nhi Ha. Map "B". Low Resolution - 47kb. High Resolution - 299kb. This map covers the coast from Cua Viet up to the DMZ and the Ben Hai River. It includes the villages of Nhi Ha, Lam Xuan and ...
Camp "Phuc U" Forward. November and December 1966. Its real name was the Cua Viet River Combat Base, but that was the name bestowed by Bravo Company, 1st Amtrac Battalion, its builder and guardian. The base was located on the south bank of the river as it met the South China Sea, about 15 kilometers south of the DMZ.