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Quang Tri City looking northeast, fall 1967: the Quang Tri Citadel is at the upper left with Tri Buu Village beyond it; the Thach Han River is in the center In 1968, Quảng Trị City was a small market town and the capital of Quảng Trị Province, the northernmost province of South Vietnam, bordering North Vietnam to the north, and Laos to ...
Marines extinguish a burning C-130 at Quang Tri Combat Base, 24 May 1968. Operation Osceola ended on 20 January, total casualties were 17 Marines and 76 PAVN killed. [3]: 78 Also on 20 January the 3rd Marines replaced the 1st Marines at Quảng Trị.
Operation Jeb Stuart was a U.S. Army operation during the Vietnam War that took place in Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Provinces from 21 January to 31 March 1968. The original operation plan to attack People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) base areas was disrupted by the Tet Offensive and instead it saw the U.S. Army units fighting in the Battle of Quang Tri and the Battle of Huế.
Men of Company "A", 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, jump from a UH-1D helicopter into a mountainous area located approximately 10 km from Quang Tri, 13 October 1968 On 7 October at 11:30 troops from the 1/9th Cavalry found a munitions cache 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Quảng Trị containing 12 SKS, 15,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, 40 120 ...
At 08:00 on 15 April, following the relief of Khe Sanh Combat Base in Operation Pegasus the 3rd Marine Division resumed responsibility for Khe Sanh Combat Base from the 1st Cavalry Division and Operation Scotland II began with the Marines seeking out the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces on the Khe Sanh plateau and across the operational area which comprised the western third of Quảng ...
During the Vietnam War, when the province was the South's border with North Vietnam, it suffered a major attack in the January 1968 Tet Offensive and it was the only South Vietnamese provincial capital to be captured by the North Vietnamese forces in the 1972 Easter Offensive before being recaptured by the South Vietnamese forces in September 1972.
Quang Duc Province: Aug 24 – Sep 9: Operation Tien Ho [1] ARVN 23rd Division operation: Quang Duc Province: 1091: Aug 28 – 31: Operation Cranberry Bog [16] One of the first Joint Personnel Recovery Center operations as part of Operation Black Knight to rescue POW, 1LT James N. Rowe: Chuong Thien Province: 2: Aug 28 – Sep 5: Operation ...
1969 map of the Demilitarized Zone. The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 21 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially divided into 2 de facto countries, which was 2 de jure military gathering areas supposed to be sustained in the short term after ...