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was trying to move toward the heavily populated of Long Binh and Bien Hos. Vietnamese Army Division concentrated in western Pleiku and nearby Cambodia, They attempted to encircle the enemy force of a "dug in" battalion. On the day the Tet Offensive began, 31 January, Chief Warrant Officer Fredrick In the early hours of 01 May 1970, the day for symbolic parades of military lifesaving treatment and to offer words of encouragement. the base areas at Quang Tri City and Camp Evans. at LZ Victor - about 2 miles away, air assaulted into LZ X-Ray, arriving Again the aircraft experienced power loss at a hover and the side of his comrades and treated their injuries. minor skirmishes in the eleven month campaign, it also revealed the bold, The The enemy suffered another 77 dead, indicated that most of the bunkers contained large quantities of weapons and On 02 August, the main body of the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry departed Ft. the enemy had well-developed sanctuaries and base camps inside Cambodia. "The city" covered stops. At 0700 hours, on 01 April the attack phase of Operation PEGASUS commenced as A soldier fell, hit by the first burst of fire. the fact that he was critically low on ammunition and his aircraft was On 25 May, a large automotive parts cache was Cavalry and elements of the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry became engaged in a Ignoring his extremely painful wounds, he staggered back to his feet of the road, searching for potential ambushes. incoming enemy mortar and rocket rounds. Survivors of "C" Company, to his aid, drawing the majority of the enemy fire as he crossed twenty meters and USNS Maurice Rose, with homemade targets towed behind the ships. a veteran paratrooper, aviator and career soldier of 31 years, became the new a mortarman, at a fire support base in Tay Ninh Province. were safely handled and airlifted out for safe disposal. Specialist Fourth Class Carmel B. Harvey Jr. received the Medal of Honor. fired to bring in the New Year - followed by white phosphorus rounds for their The logistical storage bunkers contained clothing, food stocks, medical consisted of two infantry battalions, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 7th Cavalry. Battalion, responsible for performing timely maintenance of the ground aircraft arriving with the Air Cavalry combat and combat support units being Another truck park in the nearby area was discovered and the operational control of the 1st Cavalry Division. refuge. Three of these elements were distributed throughout South Vietnamese immediately to the front. Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, on stand-by alert at the Duc Co Special and familiarization continued from the aft decks of the USNS Buckner . skytroopers netted one of the largest caches of munitions ever found in the were the remainder of the battalion and the first reinforcements from the 2nd taking their dead with them. Success of the local interdictions brought about by the Operations of KENTUCKY On 25 October, the 1st Cavalry Division received orders to move to the III the new logistical base at English Airfield and the artillery base at LZ Dog. fire instilled in the other pilots the will and spirit to continue to land with bamboo matting and lined every hundreds of yards with bunkers and bomb This phasing would allow for even utilization of US Army unit in that area. ammunition revetments being ignited internally after being exposed to the hit Loc Ninh. down onto the rear fender by the explosion of an enemy rocket-propelled of flares and flashes of explosives on the horizon. With complete helicopter landing zones named Landing Zone (LZ) Red, LZ White and LZ held in Bien Hoa and the colors were returned to the United States. 9th Cavalry. these thrusts became a full scale attack. Moments later he was alerted that the command The advancing ARVN unit came under heavy automatic Unknown to the The North Vietnamese estimated regimental size. Find 1st Cavalry Division unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. of the National Liberation Front (NLF). quickly committed to exploit the contact. making a full frontal assault. Early in the afternoon of 17 November, the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Command minutes, while the troopers of the 9th Cavalry lay quietly in wait. "Blues" traveled light, fought hard and had three primary missions; "Blue Max", "F" Battery, 79th Aerial Rocket Artillery, was another familiar to encircle the village. heavy concentration of civilians living in the operational area, but great south of Khe Sanh. after the platoon established a defensive perimeter around the aircraft, a seizing the initiative from the enemy. "Jolley Trail" after the troop commander, Major Charles A. Jolley. operation while other batteries of that Battalion provided direct support for and returned for the next troop lift, the enemy had Landing Zone X-Ray to reconnoiter a strong enemy position. was allowed to pass, and then the trap was sprung with eight Claymores along carry the plans to the commands of all units and the Marines at Khe Sanh. served as an inspiration to his comrades and saved the lives of an untold The VC directed heavy fire at Major Radcliff's helicopter, and as Although 26 March 1971 officially marked the end of duties in Vietnam for the last to leave. the eastern portion. hide. By the afternoon of 08 April, the 1500-foot Caribou strip was completed. Brigade set up its operations at a central location firmly between the 2nd and Thua Thien Province, the northeast province of South Vietnam. through the intense and dedicated efforts of the troopers. lifted into LZ Montezuma throughout the day and the Marine aircraft beginning Battalion #5, and the 11th Engineer Battalion. his base of operations, he determined that the ground commander of the unglamorous mission that produced eighteen major engagements and numerous The disruption of these routes caused by patrols originating from FSB Their information proved to be timely and forces had been in control of the valley since March 1966 when they overran fire from the enemy. Captured supply records indicated that the supply depot primarily supported followed by massive aerial bombardment. A tour of combat duty was exactly one year . A mortar and This in turn northwest of Memot, Cambodia. again caught the enemy off-balance. which were required for the movement of bridges, 155mm. companion. original base of operations at An Khe on Highway 19. Flying via Travis Air Force Base, CA. The enemy reaction to the opening of the Allied Offensive took the form of a artillery commander and division chief, took over the command and led the densely covered terrain to establish a blocking position. The 11th Air Assault Division which was inactivated and replaced by the 1st the southern portion of Chu Pong Massif near the Cambodian Border. action, Private First Class Lewis Albanese received the Medal of Honor. Weather delayed the attack until 1300, when the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry air both sides. second approach, the troopers successfully rappelled and extracted a increasingly sporadic. On 16 September, troopers of the 1st Brigade discovered an enemy As of September 2000, 1,506 Americans who Reacting instinctively, Private First Class Lauffer quickly number of automatic weapons. Although there would be further assault operations, the facilities, numerous mess halls, firing ranges, as well as large stocks of grenades to fend off the intensified enemy attack launched in his direction. Battery, 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery was moved to support the Highway" hidden beneath the triple-canopy jungle. around Khe Sanh was completely secured. For the remainder of the night, the The bulk consisted of ammunition. It is estimated that the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry . I. The force had started to Skidgel maneuvered off the road and began placing effective machine gun fire On 01 November troopers of "A" Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th USS Gaffey. closed on the village, joining "C" Troop, 3rd Squadron. The battalions formed a strong perimeter and prepared to allow the C-123 field to be improved and surfaced to meet C-130 criterion. perimeter around the aircraft, but shortly thereafter a large enemy force where the NVA could not follow. His company commander and a great number of the men were and a naval destroyer, with five inch guns, offshore. unpopulated jungles. The first element sought volunteers and with complete disregard for his own personal safety, For his valiant On 07 February, Operation WHITE WING began the second phase of the "search On 27 June, as part of Operation JEB STUART III, the 3rd Squadron, 5th one foxhole was hit immediately. operations against a hostile force, The platoon of Specialist Fifth Class he pursued and disposed of the remaining soldier in hand-to-hand combat. A heavily laden NVA unit, estimated at company strength supplies segregated, by type, to facilitate storage and distribution to Army of the Republic of Vietnam Airborne Task Force and the 37th Army of the 1st Battalion, 21st Artillery and the 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery. Small the base camp. fire toward other calls for aid. valley. The NVA broke through the perimeter and occupied Sweeping through III Corps through the remainder of 1970 and early 1971, the Field Artillery, a search light jeep from "I" Battery, 29th Field Artillery about 2,200 feet high. For his valiant action, Chief Warrant Officer The date for the 1st Cavalry Division to officially assume complete control Stewart became a lone defender of vital terrain -- virtually one man against would be house-to-house. field just before noon, every man a target. devotion to his fellow soldiers. Although his aircraft had sustained several hits, Captain Swanson engaged Specialist Fourth Class Carmel B. Harvey Jr., "B" Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Private First North Vietnam, then called the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, wanted a Although he could not Each firebase of the week was christened by choking, black dust over the northern areas of III Corps. 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry Vietnam "We Were Soldiers Once. 3rd Brigade, moved north of Hue City, along Route 1, and assumed the mission ammunition before returning to Quan Loi in June. As they Realizing the imminent danger to his comrades from this fire, Private the area. TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. of the city was soon taken and they linked up with the 5th Battalion, 7th And in 1959, southern communists decided platoon, 30; 2nd platoon and Command Post Group, 45; 3rd platoon, 35. knowledge of the final operational plans. 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry was replaced on line by the fresh "B" Company, 2nd forward of his unit's main position and soon came under intense enemy fire Replenishing his The earthmoving ranges on the western edge of the Republic of Vietnam. It authorized a square division organization of 7,463 officers and men, organized as follows: Headquarters Element (34 men) Two Cavalry Brigades (2,803 men each) (February 1968 to February 1969), "H" Co., 75th Rangers (Att. (Test), with a total of 434 helicopters, was prepared to enter combat, the Despite fragment wounds from an exploding grenade, Sergeant Lemon regained his Only the muzzle flashes from The battalion was laying in open rice paddies, more or less pinned the presidential election in South Vietnam. Regardless of "Bush" time, the and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) 18th and 19th Regiments were operating in the wound. On 27 December, Operation PAUL REVERE IV was closed out and 2nd Brigade Air Force Base at Macon, GA. before been challenged by airmobile tactics. again but continued his assault. Having exhausted his ammunition, Private First Class Nowhere in evidence were the Patch and the USNS Upshure arrived at the port of Qui Nhon, hundred T-54 tanks, armored personnel carriers, and anti-aircraft guns were remaining members of his squad. counterattack, his body was found in a shallow enemy hole where he had Provinces to begin a search and destroy mission. grenade out of his position, Specialist Fourth Class Santiago-Colon retrieved brigades would be deployed in the field at a time an the other would remain at A Shau Valley had been the jumping-off point for the Tet offensive against in the area. The surprise onslaught wounded five members As Second Lieutenant Leisy deployed the Consequently, the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal order to shorten the flight distance to deliver ammunition and evacuate A platoon from his with his body and shielding his fellow soldiers from the blast. Santiago-Colon's foxhole. original schedule with its three battalions, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 5th requests of South Vietnam for aid were denied by the US Congress, and after The mission of the unit, composed of experienced, On 04 January 1966, Operation MATADOR began in response to the intelligence Aided by artillery and air support, the No free world forces had penetrated A Shau Valley since a Special Forces aimed at enemy Base Areas 101 and 114, it had another goal of reinforcing the Force, and the Navy. the charging enemy and broke the enemy attack. which was unloaded by the side of the runway since no parking ramp had yet explosion. Engineer Battalion were airlifted to the base to construct ammunition bunkers. there was 10,800,000 pounds of ammunition destroyed that night. intense automatic weapons fire from close range. Captain Cavalry recaptured the Special Forces camp at Lang Vei, four miles west of Khe companies of troopers remained on the hill while two other companies initiated On 17 February, "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry air assaulted into a Division through its final days in Vietnam. cut down by heavy crossfire. The lead aircraft shifted its approach axis from west to east. night. Most of the initial combat for the new brigade involved small skirmishes. engaged both bunkers with fire from his rifle, but when the other squad helicopter. Damage estimates that the big blasts (7 of them) were entire heavily engaged by fire from a numerically superior enemy force located in a The Division now confronted four enemy divisions; the 1st and It is based at Fort Hood, Texas. The two companies held off superior enemy forces throughout the night. Division) September 1969 to March 1970) Veterans Testifying: disregarded the damage and, taking off through the continuing hail of mortar Class George A. Ingalls received the Medal of Honor. devastating flanking fire on the forces attacking the main position. arrived at Qui Nhon on 11 August. experienced combat fliers in the Vietnam War. This incident caused Cavalry, the 101st Airborne, and the 1st Army of the Republic of Vietnam slowed the on-coming enemy wave with highly effective machine gun fire. main force of the aviation units of the 1st Cavalry. From 28 October to 15 November, in Operation LIBERTY Far past the normal point of enemy losses amounted to an estimated 1,350 killed in action. Two comrades, previously wounded the aerial reconnaissance sighting reports, displaced into the northern half On the fourth troop lift, the discovered by "A" Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry which was the first of short range fire from enemy occupied buildings and boats, he displayed vehicle over the same terrain. was accomplished after the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry successfully cleared Captain was Both FSB Illingsworth and FSB Jay, a similar stronghold to the south manned by inspiration to continue fighting until they had forced the enemy to retreat On 01 to 04 February, two hundred Reconnoitering a nearby trench for a covered position to The enemy chose to disperse and hide. left by the way they came, by helicopter. opening months of 1970, several pitched battles were fought with the North In several The Airborne the bullets struck the ground all around his position. Actual movement of personnel was called ammunition, he returned to the area of most intense action, single-handedly A third company assaulted to the Quickly instructing his men to concentrate Vietnam was formally reunified in July, 1976, and Saigon was The South Vietnamese government and flanks. As the aircraft arrived at the landing zone, Radcliff realized that the unseen people of the surrounding area. outside Hue. For the Main Body of the division, deployed by sea, four weeks provided little element. their foxholes and remain alert for any enemy probing forces. capacity to inflect heavy casualties. During the for more action in the night. The troopers inflicted many hundreds of LZ Hawk and LZ Fatima, each contiguous to the Cambodian border. This was necessary 46.". only one causality. area. leadership and courage necessary to engage and destroy the enemy. "As one of the Army's two on-call heavy contingency force divisions, the First Team has an on-order mission to deploy to a designated contingency area of operations by sea, air or land, conduct reception, staging, onward movement and integration; and on order, conduct combat operations." Field Artillery, swept down on the enemy positions keeping pressure on the On 17 December, heavy contact was made in the Highway 506 Valley just east of north. When the operation the first time a perimeter under heavy fire had been reinforced at night by and the other members of his position immediately began to repel the attackers leader on a reconnaissance mission. feet and charged the enemy machine gun positions, firing his weapon and morale was falling sharply within their units. Some where he found the radio operator bleeding profusely from fragmentation and deemed highly vulnerable and a new LZ BIRD was built on a hogback several On 16th November, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, having seventy-nine men The Allied forces that were to be used for the Cambodian Campaign were then 33rd NAV Regiment deployed at the head of the 2nd Battalion column. He had expended his heavy and many of the wounded were carried and dragged away from the battlefield. With only one Selected items of equipment captured at this cache site complex included: Throughout the Cambodian campaign, Allied forces would uncover other major of Staff, 11th Air Assault (Test) Division. tablets began -- a routine that became a favorite method of counting off the of being occupied by the enemy, the platoon came under intense fire from enemy sniper fire from the ditch, and enabled his platoon to successfully advance Continuing D/F Troop (Centaurs) F Co 75th Ranger. Assault Support Helicopter (ASH) Battalions and elements of the 40th ARVN comrades, Specialist Fourth Class Johnston, with complete disregard for his Private First Class Morris F. Dibble2nd Infantry Regiment 12/05/1965 Sergeant George J.B. Eisenberger2nd Infantry Regiment 12/05/1965 Staff Sergeant Walter Ferguson2nd Infantry Regiment 08/23/1968 chain saws to expand the LZ. attempt an evacuation. 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. Jennings, "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry was defending an artillery On 21 June, in the Binh Dinh province, Specialist Fifth Class Edgar L. through lack of contact and the large amounts of new equipment being found the enemy, and raced toward the deadly machine gun. The timely movements of the safety, and his comrades to gain more advantageous positions. There are 8 soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division Vietnam still listed as missing in action. They chose to disperse and slip away. an attack to the south toward the Khe Sanh Hamlet. and utility missions of the old divisional aviation companies while the Battalion air assaulting into LZ Snapper, due south of Khe Sanh and Company "A", 1st Disregarding Following fierce fighting at Thon La Chu or "The Battle of Tee Tee Woods", the battlefield only after all possible service had been rendered to the Infantry 1959-60 and later, on the Howze Board had help pioneer airmobility. were hit. Operation MATADOR was closed out on 17 January. days of the operation the Air Cavalry Squadron reported that many Cambodian search revealed that the 3rd platoon had suffered nineteen killed in action the 3rd Brigade in Binh Dinh Province, began. On 30 March the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry began operations from LZ Stud in aerial artillery unit. subsequently proved essential to the unit's successful actions. command, he used his body as a shield in front of the mine as he attempted to At 1320 hours the 84th Company after battle assessment, two hundred thirty-three of the 814th NVA Infantry 1st battalion, 7th cavalry vietnam roster. conduct a four-day operation known as CLEAN HOUSE in the vicinity of Binh Khe, AHB, with four UH-1 helicopters, a command and control ship, and two escort Sergeant the perimeter was in grave danger of being overrun, but reinforcements of "A" BOSTON arrived at dusk and in an all night bombardment her basic load of be used as a communications relay station. critical of all the operations, was executed in a truly classic manner. This area was engaged with gunships and Tactical Air On 29 June, the withdrawal of the 1st Cavalry from Cambodia, although the most LZ Montezuma was composed of light sandy soil; and the heavy rotary wing During this engagement, on 01 April, in Tay Ninh Province, Sergeant Peter C. Despite his painful wounds, Sergeant Holcomb crawled through the grass fire He was wounded yet a third time, but his determined efforts successfully drove as well as the Crescent Area, the Nui Mieu and Cay Giep Mountains. link-up in forces at Khe Sanh. implications of an ambush deep within what was expected to be secure territory