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Fire support base Crook, Vietnam, 1969. A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) is a temporary military facility used to provide fire support (often in the form of artillery) to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps.
FSB Mary Ann's construction was no different from many other U.S. firebases in South Vietnam. Running northwest to southeast, the firebase stretched 500 meters along the crest of a 200-meter-high (660 ft) ridge connecting two hillsides. Only 75 meters wide at its narrowest point, Mary Ann widened to 125 meters at the northwest and southeast ends.
Firebases in the U.S.-involvement Vietnam War, were a type of military base, usually fire bases.. It may refer to: Firebase 6, Central Highlands; Firebase Airborne, central South Vietnam
Landing Zone Kate (also known as Firebase Kate, LZ Kate or Firebase White) is a former U.S. Army base northwest of Quang Duc Province in southern Vietnam near the Cambodian border. [ 1 ] History
Firebase Ross (also known as Hill 51) was a U.S. Marine Corps, Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) fire support base located in the Quế Sơn Valley southwest of Hội An, Quảng Nam Province in central Vietnam.
An LVT-5 hit by mortars at Firebase Gio Linh on the night of 9 May 1967 still burns the next morning. The base was established 13 km north of Đông Hà on Highway 1 immediately south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). [1] On 19 May 1966, the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) attacked the ARVN base at Gio Linh killing 43 and wounding 54.
Mai Loc Camp (also known as Firebase Mai Loc and Firebase Victory) was a U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base located west of Quảng Trị in central Vietnam. History [ edit ]
M-113 APCs escorting a truck convoy to Quan Loi, take a rest between Firebases Thunder II and III, 15 January 1969. Thunder III was located along Route 13 (known as Thunder Road by U.S. forces) approximately 23 km south of An Lộc and 28 km north of Lai Khê. [1] The 2nd Battalion, 2nd Mechanized Infantry was based at Thunder III. [1]