on the Bailey Compound, only in the 145th CAB HQ which could Satchel charges blew pallets of artillery ammunition, creating a mushroom cloud that made us think the VC had set off a tactical nuclear weapon. Then a report came in that a body had been found wearing a white shirt under a black pajama tunic. [3]:23950, In the late afternoon of 31 January after clearing the Widow's Village 2/47th Infantry advanced into Ho Nai from the south, the town appeared deserted. 11. All night he stared at the body, which had one arm grotesquely sticking in the air, and wondered why nobody had taken the gold wristwatch off the arm. The only trouble was that Charlie Company tracks were sitting in the road right in front of their bunkers. Charlie Company would get the mission. All of these placements were made with the wrongful assumption that the VC would attack from the jungles outside the base. About 30 minutes later, the track came back with only the driver, who reported the ranger sergeant had been killed and that it had been impossible to evacuate the wounded. On the morning of 31 January 1968, the Bien Hoa Air Base, III Corps HQ, the Prisoner of War Compound, and other key installations around Bien Hoa--Long Binh area received enemy mortar and rocket fire. As 1st Lt. Brice Barnes led his scout platoon into the edge of Ho Nai, he ran full speed into a hornets nest. 0.35 We packed up our gear, rolled up our wire and waited. The 2nd Platoon pulled the damaged track out of the side street and towed it back to the III Corps compound. The VC concentrated their attack on Bunker 10 an old French concrete bunker on the eastern perimeter, hitting it with Rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and mortar fire, however the Security Police in Bunker 10 and adjacent bunkers fought back keeping the VC from penetrating far into the base. [6]:66. The 1st Platoon of Bravo Company was made the II Field Force reaction force and was placed in the PX parking lot at Long Binh. His two daughters, Ly's mother and her sister, are disabled. Ammo Dump Exlosion Sapper Attack! In addition, gunships killed many more as they tried to escape from the villages. After the cemetery had been cleared Company B, 2/3rd Infantry joined Company C, 4/12th Infantry and they made a night defensive perimeter north of Ho Nai, while the 2/47th Infantry was withdrawn to Bin Ha. We topped off our fuel tanks, replenished our ammo and continued to move toward our assigned blocking position. From our positions, we could see and hear the fireworks lighting the sky over Saigon to the west. 0.42 I had learned no tactic at infantry school that fit the situation we were faced with, so we improvised. I walked back to my track, thinking this was going to be a nightmare. As the 2nd Platoon began to run short, Spc. Dressed as travelers returning to ancestral homes for the Tet holiday, the guerrillas had quietly drifted into their urban assembly areas and put together their weapons. mortar rounds and 90 122-mm. remember being giddy and my brain was asking What is wrong with me?. All day civilians had been darting from their homes and running from the fighting. [2]:347, At 01:00, a 6-man LRRP from Company F, 51st Infantry Regiment spotted PAVN/VC moving through rubber trees several hundred meters to the north of Long Binh Post. Something was definitely about to happen. During TET 1969 in front of Bunker Hill 17, VC sappers tried to penetrate our fence line. Most of we RAD 152 crew members arrived in-country on July 22, 1968. Come back up on the battalion freq. I had never been so happy in my life. According to the official history of the VC 5th Division, the 3rd Battalion, 5th VC Regiment, supported by the Bien Hoa Sapper Company, had the mission of overrunning the compound, which was defended by about 15 ARVN soldiers and a smattering of MACV advisers. As the scouts escaped, the volume of enemy fire began to slacken, then died altogether. I told the platoon leaders to prepare to dismount and to take all the ammunition and grenades they could carry. Since I was in an airborne unit, I was sure I would go to the 173rd Airborne Brigade or the 101st Airborne Division. By some veterans' accounts, it had the unofficial name "Long Binh Junction." In 1968, the base fell under attack during the Tet Offensive, and the Viet Cong assault force was repelled by American troops. [American sources in Vien tiane said, as quoted by The Associated Press, that the captured American was prob ably the pilot of a Continent al Air Service plane that was forced to land behind Pathet Lao lines after running out of fuel. In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earharts disappearance. Updated 7/26/2015. Despite the confusion and wounds, our troops returned fire. I then jacked a round into my M-16 and who would you believe As the Hueys rockets smashed the VC strongpoint, the scouts fought their way out of the encirclement and evacuated their dead and wounded. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. A soldier, who has been hit, lying prone between two other soldiers, tries to get up. As the C-23 track in the lead, Stormy, turned into a side street, a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) slammed into its front, smashing the radiator and wounding several soldiers. I was not sure what to do about the bunkers. The three companies formed a line almost three kilometers long, facing east, with their backs to the Long Binh wire, based on the mistaken assumption that the VC would attack from the jungle. At 07:30 the VC/PAVN force stopped and made a stand in a cemetery where they continued to be hit by the gunships and the ACAVs of Company C. At 08:00 Company C was joined by a force from 2/47th Infantry and they proceeded to methodically kill all the VC/PAVN in the cemetery. At 03:45 the unit engaged the VC/PAVN with 2 ACAVs being quickly knocked out by RPG fire. We never saw them again. At 0700, as daylight was breaking, my track rolled past the ARVN III Corps compound gate. 8. The first explosion was A few minutes later, a jeep drove up carrying two extremely frightened white-shirted policemen. trooper was injured by a piece of shrapnel that had come down Ly's grandfather was a soldier stationed in Quang Binh during the war. main target because they were outnumbered 5 to 1. 1968 - 1969, To See Lawrence's Service Battery Photos Hide. Then things started falling My only previous contact with M-113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) was during a training exercise at the officers basic course. As darkness settled in, Charlie Company was ordered back to the junction of Highways 1 and 316, where we would form a screen in front of the 199th LIB base camp. Shoe of soldier on ground. As best I could, I explained that they were to take charge and that General Giap might be among the civilians. We carried concertina wire, sand bags and hundreds of Claymores and trip flares to make our defensive positions practically impenetrable. On January 23, during a battalion sweep of a heavily jungled area south of Highway 1, Alpha Company walked into a well-camouflaged, well-defended enemy bunker system and was badly mauled, losing four men killed and more than 20 wounded, including almost all of the officers. A VC guerrilla hiding behind a parked ARVN jeep had fired the rocket. Our outfit was a The 2nd Platoon pulled the damaged track out of the side street and towed it back to the III Corps compound. AIR V..EXPLOSION In addition, we were tremendously flexible. August 1966 November 1966 December 1966. Tower sent the battalion S3, Major Jones, to take command, and once Alpha got moving, it did a magnificent job. I yelled at Lieutenant Casper and everybody looked around as the VC tore out running the last few yards to safety. But their 81mm mortars were useless, since we were told we could not put any indirect fire into the town. Get under! Sergeant John Ax, squad leader of 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, recalls what the fighting near III Corps was like: An RPG hit Shocker, the C-21 track, in the side; but it must have been a glancing blow, because it did not explode. Fires were burning late into the afternoon. Soldiers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion 47th Infantry (Mechanized) and 4th Battalion 39th Infantry clearing a hamlet during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. [2]:347, The VC 275th Regiment had taken up positions in a residential area known at the Widows' Village (105731N 1065237E / 10.9587N 106.877E / 10.9587; 106.877), which housed the wives and families of dead ARVN soldiers and was located across Route 316 from the Plantation Compound. As usual, each company had sent two ambush patrols into the jungle to our front. the country where resupply was easier for the enemy. They bowed and looked confused. About two days later one the huge fuel bags next GV EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES The VC/PAVN attacked the position that night in a 6 hour long assault which was met initially by US mortar and artillery fire, then helicopter gunships and then napalm strikes. The attacks were repulsed with the VC/PAVN suffering heavy losses, having inflicted minimal damage on the bases. VC/PAVN losses were 527 dead. The attacks on Bin Ha, Bien Hoa Air Base and Long Binh Post, occurred during the early hours of 31 January 1968 and continued until 2 February 1968. As we turned around to head back west, a tremendous blast shook the whole city of Bien Hoa. F-100 Super Sabre and F-4 Phantom II drop Mark 82 bombs in Vietnam during U.S. air strikes. I called battalion headquarters and was told to forget about them, which reinforced our sense that combat was imminent. Flames illuminated the clouds, forming an eerie glow; flares hung in the sky and helicopter gunships crossed back and forth firing red streams of tracers into the city. I had inherited the job The 2-47s scout platoon had just finished a brutal fight in Widows Village, and at 4 p.m., it was ordered to move to the junction of Highways 1 and 316, and to attack westward through the village of Ho Nai toward Charlie Company, in the hope of pinning the VC between us. United States officers and soldiers examine barbed wire fence where Vietcong broke through to enter Long Binh. As we turned right onto Highway 15, an unbelievable spectacle stretched before us. October continued with construction efforts. In January 1968, our battalion relocated to the area between Xuan Loc and Bien Hoa, where intelligence had located a VC battalion. No tactic I had learned at infantry school fit that situation, so we improvised. agreement was that the stockade prisoners would pitch our sandbags, help The recon platoon was ordered to establish a blocking position south of Long Binh on Highway 15. Not only would I not finish my command tour, but I was also being assigned to a leg division. The Vietnamese brigadier general, who was the ranking man at III Corps, drew circles around two equal-sized areas of downtown Bien Hoa. This article was written by John E. Gross and originally published in the February 2008 issue of Vietnam Magazine. The 2-47s enemy body count came in at over 200, while the battalion suffered only four KIA. When I pointed out that the 101st Battalion had more than 500 troops and I had only two line platoons and less than 90 troops, he said, Youre mechanized, youre very strong.. Unfortunately for them, the hapless VC had no weapons other than the RPG launcher, and Dames dispatched them with a burst from his M-16. known as Widows Village. secondary explosions. AIR V..AMMUNITION DUMPS AND FIRES Flames consuming huts. When I arrived at the 2nd Battalion (Mechanized), 47th Infantry, nicknamed the Panthers, Lt. Col. Arthur Moreland, the commander, asked me what job I wanted. The weapon was aimed at the newly built and painted (orange-white Mainly it is the story of some of the finest solders to ever wear the uniform of the U.S. Army and how they reacted not only to fierce combat, but also to the fog of war. the airbase made it too us in the daylight and foamed the ditch for 0.04 We left the clearing of Bien Hoa City in the capable hands of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry. more that happened that night. Tower ordered Charlie Company to attack eastward to clear the village of Ho Nai, a Bien Hoa suburb. According to him, I told him that any fool could see that the VC did not have M-113s, and that we had 22 .50-calibers and a 106mm recoilless rifle and they, for sure, did not want us to return fire. The attacks by Vietcong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces were one of several major attacks around Saigon in the first days of the Tet offensive. Through sporadic fire, we continued northwest on Highway 15 to where it intersected Highway 1 on the western edge of Bien Hoa. unless they could see someone, I went to our Operations shack II Field Force commander LG Frederick C. Weyand had also ordered the 9th Infantry Division to be prepared to send its 1st Brigade from Bearcat Base 16km south of Long Binh to Bien Hoa-Long Binh in the event of an attack. What we came up with was a T formation. ", "Then we were all in the bunker Dressed as travelers returning to ancestral homes for the Tet holiday, the guerrillas had quietly drifted into their urban assembly areas and put together their weapons. Officers and soldiers examine barbed wire fence where Vietcong broke through to enter Longbinh ammunition dump. As we rolled back through Bien Hoa, we were astounded to find the battalion S4, Captain Leroy Brown, in the middle of town with a 5,000-gallon fuel tanker and several ammunition trucks. and completely out of sync. At that moment, a burst of VC machine gun fire erupted, causing the colonel, the deputy and their Vietnamese escorts to pile into their vehicles and roar off in the direction from whence they had come. Bravo Company was sent to protect the Long Binh ammunition dump and Charlie Company was ordered into downtown Bien Hoa, where the ARVN III Corps headquarters was in danger of being overrun. 939939. 11K views 9 years ago This is a brief clip of the ammo dump explosion at Long Binh, Vietnam, taken the morning of the Tet offensive, 1968. 3. After the battles for the churches, there occurred one of the most bizarre incidents of the day. About a month earlier I had been loaned out to weld the razor The S3 also told Charlie Companys noncombatants to report to battalion headquarters. As we turned to head back, a tremendous blast shook the whole city of Bien Hoa. 0.59 We closed within a few hundred meters of the scout platoon and watched as helicopter gunships destroyed a large yellow house from which the VC were pinning down Barnes troops. As we made the turn eastward on Highway 1, the lead platoon was ambushed. At least 3,000 tons of ammu nition were reportedly de stroyed in the blasts, which be gan before dawn and continued until midmorning. An MP full colonel, accompanied by a Los Angeles deputy sheriff (dressed in his deputy uniform) and two jeeploads of National Police, drove up to my track. The 2nd Platoon, under Lieutenant Fred Casper, led the way, followed by my track, then Lieutenant Howard Jones 1st Platoon and, finally, the weapons platoon under Lieutenant Don Muir. I assigned areas of operation to my two rifle platoons, and positioned the weapons platoon inside the compound as a reserve and security force. Here was another sign that the situation was serious: The battalion commander personally gave out map coordinates of company objectives in the clear.Alpha Company was ordered to the 199th LIB compound, which was under attack. We came up with a T formation. LV EXPLOSIONS We never saw them again. 4 Joseph Dames was tasked to return to the tracks for more grenades. Chu Lai and LZ Baldy Photos. had defended the Long Binh ammo dump and had helped in the Widow's Village fight. We suffered more wounded during the trip back to III Corps, where I was called to a meeting in the headquarters. I told him about the order to clear an area of operations equal in size to that assigned the airborne battalion. resulting in the explosion of the ammo dump at Bin Ha Air Base. Charlie Company slammed into the VC before they could get their attack organized. I yelled at Lieutenant Casper, and everybody looked around as the VC tore out running the last few yards to safety. The platoons attacked by successive bounds through the village as the companys tracks, forming the base of the T on the highway, provided fire support from the .50s and resupplied the troops with ammunition. The helmet had stopped The only contact I had had with M-113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) was during a training exercise at the officers basic course just after I entered the Army. [3]:2515, A VC/PAVN attack on the prisoner of war camp in Bin Ha which held over 2000 prisoners was repulsed by a platoon from Company C, 4/12th Infantry and a platoon from Company D, 17th Cavalry and their ACAVs. Specialist 4 Bill Rambo, assistant driver and .50-gunner on my command track, remembers my response to the firing as being absolutely irate. I remember one VC informants inside the base had provided detailed information as to the base layout and defenses. I have . We packed up all of our gear, rolled up our concertina wire and waited. biggest ordnance storage areas in the country. out of the sky. All night they scanned the jungles with Starlight scopes, seeing nothing. U.S. air strikes in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. No infantry school tactic fit the situation; improvisation became the order of the day. Casper rose from a prone position and yelled for his troops to follow him. The 2nd Platoon took on the one on the north side of the road, and the 1st Platoon attacked the other. -- color photo Near Moc Hoa. During Tet 1968, the 856th Radio . This was no surprise to us, since we could hear the enemy rounds slamming into Long Binh. Construction on the 24 th. He replied that I would have to wait. Hoa. The armed helicopter teams had a field day shooting guerrillas trying to flee into the jungle. LV EXPLOSION, SIGN ON BOARD "DISNEY LAND FAR EAST" The 2-47s scout platoon had just finished a brutal fight in Widows Village, and at 1600 hours, it was ordered to move to the junction of Highways 1 and 316, and to attack westward through the village of Ho Nai toward Charlie Company, in the hope of pinning the VC between us. about 1/3 mile, All this carried on for about three maybe four days and the dead I jumped down and ran from track to track, pounding on the sides and yelling, Check your handsets! As I ran back through the weapons platoon in the pre-dawn gloom, with small-arms fire cracking overhead, I was amazed to see young girls carrying bottles of Coca-Cola, trying to sell them to the troops. was his helmet and flack jacket! Smoke rises from surrounding area. A great deal has been written about the battles of Tet 1968 and the political firestorm that resulted from them. Sand bags near barbed wire fence. Benny Toney, the 2nd Platoon sergeant, hooked a tow cable to Stormy. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the worlds largest publisher of history magazines. ruary 1968 in support of Saigon and Long Binh Post during the TET Offen- Sive. from Bien Hoa City. As we fought our way toward the scout platoon, we were blocked by two large churches that were directly across Highway 1 from each other, both occupied by the VC. As he fell, a burst of automatic weapons fire stitched the wall right where he would have been had he not fallen.. and the perimeter was still intact. As the C-23 track Stormy, which was in the lead, turned into a side street, an RPG slammed into its front, smashing the radiator and wounding several soldiers. As we turned right onto Highway 15, an unbelievable spectacle stretched before us. As the sun sank over the Long Binh base, they tossed a football and ate cold C rations. With a push-to-talk button stuck in the transmit position, no one could use the radio. We opened up with everything we had and kept driving. One reference claims that 4 February 1967 was the date, and another claims that 28 March was the date. At 3 a.m. on January 31, I received a call from Major Bill Jones, who had recently taken Ionoffs place as operations officer. As the ammo dump burst into flames, secondary explosions erupted in other storage areas, and for the next three days, fires burned out of control. Then things started falling out of the sky. Policy was to fill in all holes and empty our sandbags when we left a position, to leave nothing the VC might use against us. Page contents not supported in other languages. Under fire, Staff Sgt. When I arrived at 9th Division in June, I was shocked to learn that I was going to a mechanized battalion. Meanwhile, Hueys reported VC running from the village. Zabecki remembers taking his place on the wall with his M-79. My Account | As my airborne mentality faded, I learned to love the M-113or track, as we called it. A burst of VC machine gun fire erupted nearby, causing the colonel, the deputy and their Vietnamese escorts to pile into their vehicles and roar off in the direction from whence they had come. We were west of Highway QL1 along a road named 535. Long Binh Vietnam 1969 stock footage and images - Showing 1 to 6 of 5540 results Sort by: All Decade 1890 - 1899 Location (1) Norfolk Virginia USA (2) Normandy France (12) Norman Oklahoma USA (1) (1) (1) North Carolina United States USA (2) North Chicago Illinois USA (1) North Dakota United States USA (1) North Haven Maine USA (1) North Korea (1) Which date was it? We were ordered to go to that church and detain every male between the ages of 16 and 80. 1 comment. [2]:3512 US losses in the fighting in the Widow's Village were three dead. There, Charlie Company soldiers joined ARVN and U.S. MACV soldiers manning the walls. Aerial view of Long Binh Post in Vietnam. As dawn broke on February 1, it was deathly quiet. The progress was slow and ammunition was becoming a scarce, particularly grenades, which city fighting consumes at an enormous rate. Advanced Search | This group is primarily for those Vietnam veterans who experienced the ammo dump attacks in Long Binh in 1966, '67, & '68. Meanwhile, Huey gunships reported VC running from the village. Helicopter gunships took off from Bien Hoa AB to investigate, but were unable to locate the force in the darkness. We suffered more wounded during the trip back to III Corps, where I was called to a meeting in the headquarters. Although initially surprised, U.S. forces had reacted quickly. Sugar Bear Dames, as he was called by his many friends, walked down a side alley toward the highway. Few areas of the world have been as hotly contested as the India-Pakistan border. . As enemy resistance stiffened, we realized we had bottled at least a company of the VC 275th Regiment in the village. Painting outside. [6]:36 In addition airborne "rocket watch" patrols were established in the Saigon-Bien Hoa area to reduce attacks by fire. At the time of the Each APC could carry almost as much ammunition as a dismounted rifle company. The most comprehensive and authoritative history site on the Internet. in bunker) at first light to the sound of a M-60 chattering away. [2]:350, With the base returned to full operation, that afternoon C130s landed the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment to help ARVN forces fighting the VC in Bin Ha city. ton wrecker weighing in at 22 thousand pounds. As darkness settled in, Charlie Company was ordered to move back the way it had come, to the junction of Highways 1 and 316, where we would form a screen in front of the 199th LIB base camp. At dawn on 2 February the US counted approximately 50 VC/PAVN dead in the area and captured 3 VC. When the shooting started it The churches were cleared in short order. 13. Suddenly he came upon a VC RPG team drawing a bead on my command track, which was a prime target given the number of radio antennas jutting from it. 0.28 On that fateful night, explosions began at the bomb dump, I immediately responded to CSC as the SP's . Long Binh Ammo Dump October 29, 1966 . The ammunition dump contained high explosives like: C-4, artillery rounds, mortar rounds, aerial flares, 50 caliber rounds, M-60 machine gun rounds, and aerial rockets for the Huey Cobra and gunships. When it went off my first thought was that it was a nuclear explosion because of the light dome that rose from the explosion. I called III Corps and reported that we had detained all of these people, and was told to wait until the Vietnamese National Police arrived to take charge. We were in a cloud of disarray The G3 adviser told me that they had received intelligence that Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese commanding general, had his command post in a Catholic church about 1 kilometer east of III Corps. [2]:349, At dawn several AH1 Cobra gunships from the 334th Assault Helicopter Company joined the defense spraying the VC with rockets and machine gun fire which started fires causing the VC assault to lose its impetus. Several M 113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) are seen accompanying the troops. into the bunkers. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Army Center of Military History. Most of these photos were taken in an area a few miles north of Chu Lai and south of Hoi An. We topped off our fuel tanks, replenished our ammo and continued to move toward our assigned blocking position. As I walked around the front of a track, the .50-caliber gunner accidentally hit the trigger and pumped five rounds into the ground about three feet in front of me. To ensure you can use all the features please enable it. We charged southeast down Highway 316 to the Highway 15 intersection, situated on a small hill overlooking the 90th Replacement Company. Dames killed them with a burst from his M-16 probably saving the lives of everyone on my track. [7], The Tet offensive attacks and previous losses due to mortar and rocket attacks on air bases across South Vietnam led the Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze on 6 March 1968 to approve the construction of 165 "Wonderarch" roofed aircraft shelters at the major air bases. . Now commanded by a brand-new second lieutenant, the men of Alpha Company balked when they were told to move. We could shoot about 21 miles into Cambodia. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.. Not only would I not finish my command tour, I was being assigned to a leg division. Big Boom! As we cleared the ambush, the column suddenly came to a halt because of some kind of block in the road; simultaneously, someone keyed the company net. CU SIGN "NO SMOKING" At 0300 hours I received a call from Major Bill Jones, who had recently taken Ionoffs place as S3, stating that Bien Hoa airbase, the Long Binh facility, the II Field Force headquarters and the 199th Light Infantry Brigade (LIB) base camp were under heavy mortar and rocket attack. Toggle the table of contents Talk: Long Bnh, Bin Ha. Few areas of the world have been as hotly contested as the India-Pakistan border. Tower sent Major Jones to take command, and once Alpha got moving, it did a magnificent job. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Unconfirmed reports reports said the blasts were . In the week preceding the attack these LRRP patrols engaged 2 PAVN/VC reconnaissance teams north of Long Binh. After we finished clearing the area around the compound and as our wounded were being dusted off, I received an absolutely incredible order from III Corps. I for days and days. At the headquarters of the 2nd Battalion (Mechanized), 47th Infantry (2-47), nicknamed the Panthers, the commander, Lt. Col. Arthur Moreland, asked me what job I wanted. As he fell, a burst of automatic weapons fire stitched the wall right where he would have been had he not fallen. (Casper, one of the bravest of the brave, died during the May offensive in Saigon, leading from the front.). At 0400 Jones ordered us to pull in our ambushes and be prepared to move. Sappers had placed satchel charges on pallets of artillery ammunition, and the resulting mushroom cloud caused all its witnesses to think the VC had employed a tactical nuclear weapon. That night, frightened bunker guards in the 199th compound shot into the darkness to their front. I told him that I wanted to command a company. He read a memorandum charging that 100 days after the signing of the Vientiane ceasefire accords, the seven men had been planning to take command of groups of saboteurs recently infiltrated into the area., See the article in its original context from. License Agreement | Despite the confusion and wounds, our troops returned fire. Jan. 31. He said the first thing he could remember was the Under fire, Staff Sgt. SP4 Lawrence Korteum [3]:2204, On 1 February Company B, 2/3rd Infantry, Company C, 4/12th Infantry and elements of 2/47th Infantry swept Ho Nai finding only dead VC/PAVN and civilians who had been murdered by the VC or killed in the fighting in the town. Tet offensive attacks on Bien Hoa and Long Binh, Tet Offensive attacks on Bien Hoa and Long Binh, United States Army Center of Military History, "Tet Offensive: The Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh", Video of helicopter gunships and F-100s in action at Bien Hoa AB, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tet_offensive_attacks_on_Bien_Hoa_and_Long_Binh&oldid=1086914863, Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1968, Battles of the Vietnam War involving the United States, Attacks on military installations in the 1960s, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Army Center of Military History, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 9 May 2022, at 04:36.
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