The Cu Chi base is one of the six most important American military establishments in Vietnam. It is the headquarters for the whole area to the north-west of Saigon towards Cambodia, through which North Vietnamese forces are advancing towards the capital. The base had received clear intelligence it was to be attacked.

“Ground Attack on HOTEL Sector, Cu Chi Base Camp by NVA Forces on 26 February 1969.” 0200 hours - 1LT Stares, the Officer of the Guard, called DISCOM for flare support, received it, and reported a negative sighting. 0330 hours - 1LT Stares fired hand flares and M-79 rounds at enemy in wire and again reported a negative sighting. 0400

2006年6月12日 · On March 10, 1969, Newsweek reported: ‘At Cu Chi, the headquarters of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division (Mechanized) some 20 miles northwest of Saigon, enemy sapper squads slipped undetected through the barbed-wire perimeter in the middle of the night and ranged up and down the airstrip planting their explosives. Before they were driven off ...

Ground Attack on Cu Chi Base Camp 26 Feb 1969. Below is a brief summary of this event from a VHPA War Story Article by Gary Roush, Pilot for 242 ASHC Muleskinners. Those remembering that night: Moose Marcinkowski ...

Cu Chi Vietnam was a different war. It was a conflict where the front line was not a trace on a map but was rather wherever the opposing combat forces met and fought. The secure rear areas of past wars that were so necessary for support were nonexistent in Vietnam.

2015年3月25日 · CU CHI _ The dark morning quiet was shattered by the eerie sound of incoming mortars. The Warriors of the 2d Battalion, 12th Infantry, were in a night laager ten miles north of Cu Chi in the Ho Bo Woods. The Fire Brigade troops were …

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CU CHI - Trailing an elusive enemy through the Boi Loi Woods, B and C troops of the 3d Squadron, 4th Cavalry, uncovered enough supply caches to feed and clothe a battalion of North Vietnamese Regulars. In a two-day sweep, the troopers destroyed more than 100 bunkers, fighting positions and tunnels.

2018年6月24日 · Cu Chi Base Camp was a U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base in the Cu Chi District northwest of Saigon, RVN. Around noon on January 3, 1969, plumbers, carpenters, masons, electricians, and concrete and asphalt workers from D Company, 554th Engineer Battalion, were lining up at the serving counter when a blast ripped through ...

Củ Chi Base Camp (also known as Củ Chi Army Airfield) is a former U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base in the Củ Chi District northwest of Saigon in southern Vietnam. Củ Chi Base Camp was established in 1966 near Highway 1, 25 km northwest of Tan Son Nhut Air Base and 50 km southeast of Tây Ninh.