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English: Vinh Long airfield recently rehabilitated by D Company, 27th Engineer Battalion. This strip is 3500' long and has a M8A1 solid steel mat surface This strip is 3500' long and has a M8A1 solid steel mat surface
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.
At the beginning of 1967 the United States was engaged in a steadily expanding air and ground war in Southeast Asia. Since its inception in February 1965, Operation Rolling Thunder, the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, had escalated in the number and significance of its targets, inflicting major damage on transportation networks industry, and petroleum refining and storage facilities.
1st Infantry Division operations in Binh Guong Province that extended to include the Loc Ninh area of Bình Long Province after PAVN/VC attacks on Loc Ninh on 29 October 1967. The Battle of Ong Thanh took place when U.S. forces were ambushed by a superior communist force. Bing Guong and Bình Long Provinces. Sep 29 – Oct 11
In 1966, the Navy sent a message fleet-wide, asking for volunteer Naval Aviators to man HA(L)-3. From the response, eighty Aviators were chosen to be the first "Seawolves" and transferred to Vietnam. On 1 April 1967, HA(L)-3 was officially established in South Vietnam under the command of LCDR Joseph B. Howard. [3]
Ngo Vinh Long, a Vietnamese scholar and writer famous for anti-war demonstrations that angered the South Vietnamese government in the 1960s, died on Oct. 12 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bangor ...
Other units stationed at Phước Vĩnh included: 5th Special Forces Group Detachment A-412 [2]: 245 11th Aviation Company (July 1965-April 1971) [2]: 121 6th Battalion, 27th Artillery (November 1965-June 1966, January 1968) [2]: 102 31st Engineer Battalion (July 1968-mid 1971) 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry. Headquarters Troop [3]: 249
Other considerations in 1967 were "careful bidding" that saved taxpayers $1 million, which "is a lot of money these days." The total cost was estimated between $16-18 million, but the final tally ...