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Operation Coronado X was the tenth of the Operation Coronado series of riverine military operations conducted by the U.S. Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) and units of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), originally planned as a sweep of western Dinh Tuong Province and eastern Kien Phong Province, however with the outbreak of the Tet Offensive on 31 January 1968 it instead became the MRF ...
CH-21s at Vĩnh Long, February 1963 Airfield facilities, October 1964.jpg The base was originally established in 1963 approximately 3 km west of Vĩnh Long and 48 km southwest of Mỹ Tho . The base was named after Captain Roger Gauvin and SP5 Carleton Upton of the 114th Aviation Company who were killed in action on 15 March 1964.
The 18B and 95A Regiments were in the U Minh area; the D1 and D2 Regiments were reported southwest of Chương Thiện Province; the D3 Regiment was scattered along the common boundary of Vĩnh Long and Vĩnh Bình Provinces; and the Dong Thap 1 Regiment was located in an area south of Route QL-4 in Định Tường Province.
Vĩnh Long is a province located in the Mekong Delta of southwestern Vietnam. Its capital is Vĩnh Long. Its population is 1,046,390 and its area is 1,525.73 km 2 (589.09 sq mi). [1] Vĩnh Long (spelled 永隆 in the former Hán-Nôm writing system) is a Sino-Vietnamese name, translating as "eternal prosperity."
During 1971 the Division focused on destruction of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and VC Base Area 400 in the That Son (Seven Mountains) region. [6]: 141 By the end of 1972 the Division was responsible for Sa Đéc, Vĩnh Long, Vĩnh Bình and Kien Hoa Provinces. The Division was opposed by only one main force regiment, the D3 under the ...
Ngô Vĩnh Long (April 10, 1944 – October 12, 2022) was a Vietnamese American historian, a professor of History at the University of Maine from 1985 until his death. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Long was the author of the 1973 book Before the Revolution: The Vietnamese Peasants Under the French .
Vĩnh Long (listen ⓘ) is a city and the capital of Vĩnh Long Province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Vĩnh Long covers 48.1 kilometres (29.89 mi) and has a population of 200,120 (as of 2018). The name was spelled 永 隆 ("eternal prosperity") in the former Hán-Nôm writing system. Narrow bridge over canal on the island of An Binh
The Capture of Vĩnh Long (Vietnamese: Vĩnh Long) on 22 March 1862 was the last major allied victory of the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62). This campaign, fought between the French and the Spanish on the one side and the Vietnamese on the other, began as a limited punitive expedition and ended as a French war of conquest. The war concluded ...