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The U.S. Army base was established in 1965. [2]Red tents for refugees from Operation Cedar Falls at Phu Loi, 29 January 1967 Phu Loi, 23 September 1967. The 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division comprising:
[1]: 31 At midday on 27 June, a unit of the ARVN 25th Division found 126 rockets 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Saigon, while Phu Loi Base Camp was hit by 15 mortar rounds. [1]: 32 On 28 June, units of the 1st and 3rd Brigades, 9th Infantry Division, engaged an enemy company 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Bến Lức.
Operation Benning V [1] 3/1 Cavalry security operation: Bình Định Province: Sep 3: Operation Decatur [1] 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment security operation: Quon Loi – An Loc: Sep 4 – 6: Operation Cranston [1] 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment security and resupply operation: between Lai Khe and Phu Loi: 52: 2 Sep 4 – 15 ...
Operation Coronado II/Operation Son Thang 3 [1] [9]: 252 7MRF 9th Infantry Division, 3/39 Infantry, ARVN 7th Division, 3/47 Infantry search and destroy operation to help provide security for the Dong Tam Base Camp: Dinh Tuong Province, Mỹ Tho River, 73: 9 Jul 8 – Aug 28: Operation Akumu/Xay Duong 12-7 [1]
Long An Province was believed to shelter the 267th, 269th, and 6th Bình Tân Battalions in the west and the 506th, 508th, 5th Nhà Bè and Phu Loi II Battalions in the east. The VC had successfully established control over most of the province with the result that South Vietnamese Government control was limited to the major towns and outposts ...
On 1 April the Division departed Ninh Bình Province and began moving south, then turned west along Route 9 into Laos and down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. [3]: 401 In late April the Division was located north of Saigon and on 30 April it captured Phu Loi Base Camp. [3]: 419
[1]: 312 On 8 June, Troop A 1/4th Cavalry comprising 9 M48 tanks and 32 other armored vehicles left Phu Loi Base Camp to move to An Lộc. That afternoon near the village of Tau O the lead M48 was disabled by a mine as part of an ambush by 2 battalions of the 272nd Regiment.
The unit was constituted on 21 August 1965 and activated on 23 August 1965 at Fort Benning, Ga.The Battalion was inactivated on 16 September 1987. The 11th Aviation Battalion stationed at Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Erlensee, Germany, was the air wing of V Corps. [4]