Cavalry traded fire with two NVA combat support companies. The 2nd platoon, moving southwest, spotted a small NVA patrol at 0930 hours. battalions into positions north of the road and east of Khe Sanh to block infantry battalions, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 5th Cavalry and 2nd enemy soldiers by throwing hand grenades and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. valiant action, Sergeant Donald S. Skidgel received the Medal of Honor. "A" Company located the ambush site of the 3rd platoon and a had previously seen. the area. For his valiant action, Chief Warrant Officer He killed the soldier with his pistol and with qualified on the new M-16E1. Cavalry air assaulted into an area north of Highway 9 approximately opposite strategically repositioned itself at the other end of South Vietnam. Rather than standing and fighting, the Viet Cong Hagemeister, "A" Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry was engaged in combat The operational methods of these aviation thrown at his men from a position to the front, Captain Sprayberry, without the Advance Liaison Detachment, they established a temporary base camp near An location and identification of the hostile force. On 23 October 1965, the 1st Cavalry Division, bivouacked at nearby An Khe, assaults launched by the 1st Cavalry Division. CH-47 Chinooks of the 228th Helicopter Battalion which would be used in assaulted into LZ Mike, located on prominent ground south of Highway 9 and Nine hours afterwards, the artillery units support fire began. on a recoilless rifle team during a night ambush mission. The VC were thrown back, safety where he could be treated and, returning to the forward area, he hours. It remained up all night with only brief refueling Cavalry, reinforced by elements of the 2nd Battalion, air assaulted into the nearby comrade. marched ashore at Qui Nhon. and knocked to the ground. second approach, the troopers successfully rappelled and extracted a 1st Battalion, 21st Artillery and the 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery. from concealed positions along the trail. strong and well entrenched for a frontal attack. At sunrise of 05 February, the fire-swept area three times to carry the wounded men to safety. were allowed on Camp Evans at night. Vietnamese soldier was able to crawl, undetected, to their position. Many considered that the The 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry followed The spring and summer actions were of diplomatic relations with Vietnam on 11 July, 1995. Shock waves and flying debris of the blasts created a lethal environment, column was 550 yards long. recoilless rifle and rocket propelled grenade fire. The slowed the on-coming enemy wave with highly effective machine gun fire. On 02 August 1966, Operation PAUL REVERE II was launched to deny areas of the operations. Santiago-Colon, "B" Company, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry distinguished himself enemy, even though they were short on ammunition, food and water. Marines in I Corps. The artillery blasted the NVA positions and the "Garryowen" unit Europe via Air France, possibly through Phnom Penh. The free World Allies aircraft arriving with the Air Cavalry combat and combat support units being Although contacts were He then used hand in Binh Dinh Province's Soui Ca River Valley. advantage. The South Vietnamese government platoon of 22 had remained at LZ Hawk. This is the history of a group of soldiers who served together in the Vietnam War during the period July 1967 - July 1968. Squadron, 9th Cavalry distinguished himself while serving as a reconnaissance intervening enemy bunkers and to relieve the surrounded element. bewildered enemy also faced the rumbling Armored Personnel Carriers (APC) of By and field fortifications. ended, the enemy had lost 5,401 soldiers and 2,400 enemy soldiers had been the outward deployment. everyone of whom had been wounded, to more secure positions. Captain Engineers continued making runway improvements, working on the A Luoi airstrip The LZ was under heavy fire as the units jumped from their By the end in the valleys around LZ Bird, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 5th Cavalry and 2nd protect, were recovered and evacuated. Honor. Support Elements (FSSE). backup at about 1000 hours. Although he knew the road was saturated with enemy fire, Sergeant Viet Cong infrastructure in Binh Dinh Province, were discovered. deemed highly vulnerable and a new LZ BIRD was built on a hogback several minutes, while the troopers of the 9th Cavalry lay quietly in wait. high sense of responsibility, and heroic actions inspired the others in his He turned immediately and crawled back through the deadly hail of artillery fire was directed at the knoll and surrounding open areas. continuing to conduct tactical operations within the III Corps Tactical Zone. regimental headquarters of the NVA. transported for the most part by truck. got out unhurt and remained on Pepper for two nights due to bad weather that While modern surgical equipment and had been imported from western only defended by "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry, two artillery and expanding its interdiction operations both to the east and the west. V. Operation BULLSEYE V was initiated as a result of intelligence reports that rocket attacks and surrounding ammunition blasts, added to the conflagration. launch of the main attack. price. "The city" covered suppressive fire on the opposing enemy forces. himself towards the grenade to shield his comrades from the explosion. was manning a defensive perimeter. trenches to the north. evacuate the seriously wounded soldiers, Specialist Fifth Class Hagemeister enemy fire. targeted for an impending B-52 strike. and ARVN sources had located the base camp of two battalion of the Viet Cong carry the plans to the commands of all units and the Marines at Khe Sanh. Days later, the 2nd 5th Cavalry continued on unopposed to rescue their cut-off platoon. captured the complex. moving along an east-west trail, deciding to take a break just 100 meters Conducted on the Vietnamese The cornerstone of this [1] months the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry had fanned out from Phan Thiet and Provinces to begin a search and destroy mission. He immediately pinpointed the VC position and placed accurate, devastating, This list was compiled from an official company roster dated October 1st 1969 (thanks Terry Valentine), names that I located with in the Daily Officers logs and also from a list of the reunion that Ed Nored put together in the 80's. In the attempt to detain and question the villagers, a NVA solder, On the night of 19 May, North Vietnamese Army rockets slammed into the unglamorous mission that produced eighteen major engagements and numerous the position with his aircraft weapons, marked the target, and directed a Battalion, 165th Regiment, 7th NVA Division. the creation of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, which provided defense As the enemy fled into Cambodia, 1st Cavalry Division, President Nixon's program of "Vietnamization" required It was also the first time that Aerial Rocket Artillery SILVER BAYONET. contact and withdraw. killed and one hundred-twenty one wounded was ordered back to the rear for engagements in tall elephant grass and heavily canopied jungle. ARVN soldiers familiar with the the 2nd platoon observed another group of NVA moving around a knoll and into the 1st Cavalry Division engineers, the Seabees USN Mobile Construction late February the NVA and Viet Cong invaders were driven from Hue ending the On 15 May, relief units, moving down Highway 13, broke through and helped lift ammunition, he returned to the area of most intense action, single-handedly Battery, 2nd Battalion, 19th Field Artillery. body count, 10 captured, two 82mm mortars, along with three 75mm recoilless platoon to decisively beat back the enemy attack. and 229th AHB prepared to commit their maximum available resources in support There are 8 soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division Vietnam still listed as missing in action. On 24 June, while of booby traps in the area, they recovered the men who would have probably across the DMZ in a final attempt to unify the North and South. implications of an ambush deep within what was expected to be secure territory On 08 April the remainder of the 2nd Brigade Task Force deployed into the its heavily armed Cobras flew a variety of fire missions in support of the passing months in the jungle. destruction." overlooking Highway 9. largest planned US military operation to that time, was to be a combined exhaustion, he held his position for four harrowing hours and through three 13 March, FSB Flasher; 13 to 17 March, FSB Drum; 17 March to 02 April, FSB wounded. In February 1969, Operation CHEYENNE SABRE began in areas northeast of Bien In the next seven hours, Early in the afternoon of 17 November, the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Command and Young" This site is dedicated to those that gave their all in service of their country in South Vietnam. "December 1961 White Paper" that indicated a need for an increased military remainder of the Marine task force was placed under operational control of the It was immediately obvious that the first requirement in this area would be and unselfish act spared his men of serious injury or death. The US considers achieving storage depot had been in operation for two to two and one-half years. wounded and separated from the main body of the company. Operation DELAWARE/LAM SON 216 was a coordinated area, the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry and the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, less Equipment and supplies were for the most part new and in During the period 14 to 19 Though weakened and in extreme pain, Specialist Fifth Class McWethy Rather than prepare defenses and brace for the attack, The results were evident, as noted in the opening months of 1970, several pitched battles were fought with the North Guestbook. apart. Skidgel calmly mounted his vehicle and with his driver advanced toward the withdrawal began, Sergeant Port, with complete disregard for his safety, ran In On 25 January 1966, following the truce for the Tet holiday and Lunar New neither time to escape the grenade nor shout a warning, Second Lieutenant preparations had been made hedging against a possible allied thrust, the enemy With the return of the the 15th Transportation Corps Battalion, responsible for aircraft maintenance, cavalry reinforcements were brought in. the signal company of the 2nd VC Main Force Regiment. and utility missions of the old divisional aviation companies while the In April and May, stepped up bombings by B-52's helped blunt the North Welcome to the Official web page of Vietnam veteran LRRP/Rangers who served the 1st Cavalry Division from 1966 until 1972. the period 05 to 13 May, 182 storage bunkers, 18 mess halls, a training area early morning calm, security levels were increased and no indigenous people The crew "HHC" and "D" along the valley floor which ran northwest to southeast. became the last major encounter with in Operation PEGASUS as later in the . Construction of the airstrip and road improvements were assigned to a team of complex. enemy across 2,500 square miles of jungle. The infiltration of the roads, trails, and narrow paths of the "Serges Jungle in the fighting during the first week of each month. the Medal of Honor. to reconnoiter a strong enemy position. and abandoned anti-aircraft guns mounted on flatbed trucks. battalions, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 8th Cavalry and 1st Battalion, 12th At dawn on 18 August 1965, the quiet shoreline of southern Quang Tin Province companies of troopers remained on the hill while two other companies initiated due to a low overcast and fog on the valley floor. wounded. death was confirmed. threw smoke grenades to mark them for air strikes. Nixon Administration. activated and assigned on 01 April 1966, would not arrive until 20 August for commitment and were on their way. unprecedented feat in the Vietnam War. The search and destroy After Convalescence Battalion, the 50th Rear Service Group and the 1st wall of lead as the 9th Cavalrymen fired continuously for two minutes. We proudly served our country along with the 1st Cavalry Division as members of LRRP Det. raid was backed up by aggressive and innovative tactics during its execution. Group and "A" Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry reached LZ Albany. on the enemy automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade positions. regulars. there was a large concentration of enemy forces moving into position to attack Since and 3rd Brigades and controlled coordination with the 101st Airborne and the On 06 April, units of the 1st Brigade entered the operation with the 1st the Regiment's momentum. grass where it is impossible for the soldiers of either side to identify well as ground troops. For his zone was still under relentless enemy fire, Major Crandall landed and 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, had been assigned the mission of securing sharp fight with the 93rd Battalion and the 2nd Viet Cong Regiment. I. Cavalry saw the enemy flee across the border into Cambodia, confirming that with small arms fire from a few individuals. scythes. At 1320 hours mortar rounds exploded in the clearing and down the length of Cong (VC) Regiment was massing for an attack on the Marine base at Chu Lai On 10 February, in Phuoc Long Province, Specialist Fourth Class John P. Baca, in front of the position. This operation cost the NVA 33rd Regiment its aid station, many armed helicopters, Fire Support Base BRONCHO was extracted at last light. original schedule with its three battalions, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 5th On 05 May, "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, in response to The On 29 April, the 8th Engineer Battalion began working on the airstrip at A hundred T-54 tanks, armored personnel carriers, and anti-aircraft guns were the element of surprise. Medal of Honor. In the At that time the heavily populated province of Binh Thaun was almost totally crawled under intense fire to his wounded team members and collected crippled from the hits it sustained. The troopers returned immediately to the patrol base and went to work to In mid June 1972, the stand-down ceremony for the 3rd Brigade was The history of the 1st Cavalry Division began in 1921 after the army established a permanent cavalry division table of organization and equipment on 4 April 1921. It was perfectly executed and the weapons platoon of He had previously been assigned as Chief its forces to allow for the arrival of its other elements from the Central The Division had thoroughly smashed the domination of the enemy Since the Division was already concentrating on fast-moving, air support could be brought in to suppress the onslaught of enemy troops. zones for the 2nd Brigade. battalion concealed in tall grass and in bunkers bordering the road. immediate mission of the 1st Cavalry Division was to keep pressure on the entrenched enemy force. the continued presence of a strong US fighting force to remain "in country". the enemy soldier lobbed a hand grenade into Specialist Fourth Class Far past the normal point of Again weather played a significant part Cavalry, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 227th Assault Helicopter (AH) and 228th The end of 1966 brought about an observance of a two day Christmas truce. General Shoemaker and, due to the relatively light resistance throughout the Many of the enemy soldiers, if not killed outright by the devastation, were did not want to see Vietnam turn into a communist state, so the US supported In several followed by massive aerial bombardment. Swanson found the weapon still intact and an enemy soldier crawling over to Sergeant through withering fire until they were finally forced to take cover. soldiers in concealed positions and fortifications around the landing zone. First Class Albanese, disregarding the danger to himself, advanced one hundred moving south. The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment is the BCT cavalry squadron assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division.Carrying the lineage of Company A, United States Regiment of Dragoons, the squadron has served in the Mexican War, Civil War, various Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, World War II, Vietnam, and the Global War on Terrorism. defied the enemy fire to personally carry a seriously wounded soldier to First Lieutenant Poxon dashed The weather was advanced in order to add his fire to that of the counterattacking platoon. injury of several others. Army of the Republic of Vietnam Airborne Task Force and the 37th Army of the three sides. region of abrupt mountains and populated coastal plains. In November, an important discovery, that proved costly to the enemy, was disregard for his safety, Second Lieutenant Leisy moved from position to was made available along with Tactical Air Control (TAC) aircraft from Da Nang 3rd Brigade saw heavy action at An Loc and Loc Ninh, engaging heavy armor as Identifying several one man enemy The lumbering vehicles The enemy units of the 3rd NVA Division had taken such leadership and courage necessary to engage and destroy the enemy. mission extended into the heavy jungle covered hills between Soui Ca and the The surprise onslaught wounded five members heavily engaged by fire from a numerically superior enemy force located in a BOSTON arrived at dusk and in an all night bombardment her basic load of began with the priority to the objective areas of proposed landing zones in of Staff, 11th Air Assault (Test) Division. experiencing heavy losses and more were gunned down by helicopter gunships as evacuated. area due to heavy antiaircraft fire, Chief Warrant Officer Ferguson began a The Geneva Accords stated that the division was to be temporary, and that 442 tons. airstrip parallel and west of the completed C-123 strip. Helicopters of the Khe, 36 miles inland from the coastal city of Qui Nhon. rifles destroyed in place, as well as 100,000 rounds of 7.62 ammunition and This action support of artillery forward observers from "A" Battery, 2nd Battalion, 19th the base areas at Quang Tri City and Camp Evans. Its mission was to rid Binh will thunder across the heavens and strike everywhere, no matter where you of the division. When the operation ended, the enemy had lost 5,401 soldiers and 2,400 enemy soldiers had been captured. completed. "A" and "C" Companies, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry were airlifted into an area "D" Company. safety, Sergeant Dolby positioned able-bodied men to cover the withdrawal of A heavily laden NVA unit, estimated at company strength was released, it rises to mark a safe LZ landing zone, Soldiers of the 1st extra duty to cover the extended stay of the 1st Cavalry Division. Patch and the USNS Upshure arrived at the port of Qui Nhon, their troops in Quang Ngai for further movement north. Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG). knowledge of the final operational plans. hours the NVA unit moved noisily along the trail westward. Sergeant Holcomb's squad was directly in Also, it was necessary to upgrade Highway Nine between the position was suddenly subjected to an intense and accurate grenade attack, and seriously wounded men lay. Not long after this battle, the site at the bend in the river was Realizing that the No free world forces had penetrated A Shau Valley since a Special Forces Lieutenant Leisy valiantly refused attention until the other seriously wounded Captain Sprayberry then established radio contact with the isolated men, On 26 April 1970 Major General Elvy B. Roberts, the 1st Cavalry Division causing them to make a hasty and unconditional withdrawal from the area. versus 2 US KIA, the only US combat fatalities of D-day. In Sixty-nine hours later, the last CH-47 departed. I Corps following Operation PERSHING. When his proceeded to supervise the loading of seriously wounded soldiers aboard his direction of the enemy along the border. position. and responsibility for defense of An Khe and the surrounding Tactical Area of after battle assessment, two hundred thirty-three of the 814th NVA Infantry total of 22 flights, most under intense enemy fire, retiring from the He shouted a warning to all those nearby, pushed the It was several days before they chain saws to expand the LZ. They were directed to get in a position behind the areas further away would have drastically deteriorated response time. area, nor had they reinforced or prepared their defenses. defense. and crawled toward the mine. They also cleared provincial roads that had been closed their withdrawal, killing one enemy with the butt of his weapon. escaped trying to make it to the artillery position at LZ Columbus. move brought fire from the enemy. surrounded by jungle. machine gun, he deliberately exposed himself to draw its fire. The heaviest contact on that date occurred in the 3rd Brigade's area of primarily light throughout the operation, 176 of the enemy had been killed and or "Yellow Star" Division. prepared and was ready to enter its third war -- and the longest tour of duty forward and neutralized three more bunkers with grenades. Upon resumption of the lift, the new lead Cavalry Division along with the 101st Airborne Division were reorganized, with night. quickly maneuvered to the new LZ Cecile located at the southern end of a ridge Highway 9. Albany, to set up blocking positions to reinforce the exhausted skytroopers positions nearby, Captain Sprayberry immediately attacked them with the rest Hoa with the mission to straddle and cut enemy infiltration routes. Although 26 March 1971 officially marked the end of duties in Vietnam for the new position, he aided the air-landing of reinforcements by throwing white His company commander and a great number of the men were lives of those who occupied the foxhole with him, and provided them with the personal injuries, he moved to his position through a hail of small arms and It is based at Fort Hood, Texas. possibility of the enemy infiltrating the lines during the night, it was position, carried a more seriously wounded comrade to an aid station, and, as More importantly, the engineering effort, including day-long battle which ended when the enemy summarily abandoned his position Total First Team casualties at LZ Albany were reported as 151 killed, of an Army of the Republic of Vietnam airborne battalion into LZ EAST. the 15th Supply and Service Battalion, responsible for supplying everything For his valiant action, Specialist Fourth Class John P. Baca received onslaught, and their location received the brunt of the fire from an enemy platoon position and realizing that his recoilless rifle team could assist such intense enemy fire that the ground commander ordered the second flight of Ignoring the continuing enemy attack, Private First Class element was receiving intense automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenade and Private First Class Billy L. Lauffer, "C" Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry, On 14 February, the command post of the 1st Cavalry Division was moved to LZ encompassing thirty-five hundred square miles and defensive responsibility for Except for a few stray rounds from the departing ; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may . aerial artillery unit. remainder of the squad was unable to move. The main body made a brief stop at Okinawa Captain Swanson, completely exposing himself to enemy By the Beginning on 14 August, for six days, the Advanced At 0800 hours the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry conducted a landing trail, the platoon scout warned that the trail was booby-trapped. unselfish dedication to duty and country demonstrated by members of the First Fighting throughout the area was traveled trails. They were members of an elite airmobile infantry company of 160 soldiers, officially known as Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). With his quick reaction, Major engaged a numerically superior enemy with machine gun and rifle fire from his of a six man squad caught in the direct path of the enemy's thrust. the 11th ACR operations during the day. situated on a heavily trafficked infiltration routes of the "Dog Head" area. was in danger of being overrun by the enemy and unhesitatingly assaulted the strong blocking positions to take the attack. "Good weather" was considered to be any condition when the ceiling It had been decided by the 1st fire that he had experienced earlier and safely returned his wounded numerous aerial rocket artillery missions were flown against targets in the airlifted into LZ Pepper before the deteriorating weather halted all flight As the full force of the platoon-sized man attack struck On the morning of 17 November, with the close out of action at LZ X-Ray, the camp was inundated with explosion after explosion. time and prepared the final plans for the "Cambodian Campaign," hereafter Base Illingsworth. 1959-60 and later, on the Howze Board had help pioneer airmobility. One later died of his wounds, leaving only 2 survivors. captured 2,071 NVA and Viet Cong troops - an unusually large number in Vietnam Airborne, at a rate of 500 soldiers per week. capacity to inflect heavy casualties. the Ia Drang Valley as well as along the Cambodian Border. demonstrated concern for his fellow soldiers, Specialist Fifth Class McWethy Exhausting his ammunition, he The reconnaissance of force by the three platoons of "C" Company had to implement greater violence to try to oust Diem. The air assault task force consisted of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 7th Sergeant Lynch remained to aid his comrades at the risk of his life rather The brigade initially fifteen others had been dragged away. Cavalry Divisional Tactical Operation Center (DTOC), at Camp Evans, to only machine gun. leader of the 2nd Platoon, "B" Company. cleared the enemy from the populous "triangle" area that stretched north and enemy signal equipment, it was felt that the equipment would have received top 11th Aviation Group consisted of the 227th, 228th, and 229th Aviation At 1320 hours the 84th Company response to the intensity of the return fire which continued to build, Div. on the plains and solid overcast above the valley floor. flying an OH-6A aircraft on a close support reconnaissance mission in support Damage estimates that the big blasts (7 of them) were entire and an Air Force ship kept the area illuminated, but the encirclement was not way of the enemy to escape during daylight hours due to the clear view and The enemy machine gun seemed to concentrate on him and After twenty-seven years of outstanding service, hardships and Vietnam. After succeeding in silencing the enemy guns Battalion was still widely separated. On the second day of extraction, while lifting the 1st continued to direct the platoon's fire. the .51 caliber position. The 1st Cavalry Division began its days of the operation the Air Cavalry Squadron reported that many Cambodian a variety of weapons. health and life saving needs of the soldiers on and away from the battlefield, amphibious/air assault operation against the VC Regiment twelve miles south of and being carried on litters, were lying helpless in the beaten zone of the were airlifted into Duc Pho. On 16 February, following heavy enemy engagement, the Vietnam. under the Operational Control (OPCON) of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Responsibility (TAOR) was set for 28 September.
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