Landing Zone Margo was a U.S. Marine Corps base located northwest of The Rockpile, Quảng Trị Province in central Vietnam. The base was located on Mutter's Ridge northwest of The …

Below you will find Jarvis D. Lynch's article about LZ Margo, an operation conducted by 2/26 in Vietnam. Lynch is a retired USMC Major General who lives in Tampa, Florida and was the Operations officer of 2/26 during the operation at LZ Margo. He was the featured speaker at the 5th Marine Division Association's 65th reunion.

These pages contain the memories of Marines and Corpsmen of Battalion Landing Team 2/26 -- the DMZ Rats -- who fought the Battles of LZ Margo and then endured another month of grueling combat patrols across Vietnam's DMZ during September and October 1968.

2018年3月14日 · The battalion was was inserted into LZ MARGO in order to locate North Vietnamese Army units that were suspected of operating in the area and destroy them. 2/26 would themselves suffer approximately 200 casualties in an indirect fire attack after they were ordered to reoccupy LZ MARGO so that a B-52 Arclight strike could be executed adjacent to ...

About 7 Sep­tember, the BLT’s field elements were trucked to Camp Carroll and staged for two contingencies: a helicopter assault into Landing Zone (LZ) Margo, a barren hill­top just south of the DMZ, roughly 17 kilometers west-north­west of Camp Carroll—or a shift of operational control to the 4th Marines and a return to Khe Sanh, where ...

2019年5月1日 · Margo would be the first of several stops across the DMZ, sweeping the NVA back towards the coast. The single helicopter limit in the LZ meant the insert would be …

LZ Margo from just above the 81s fire direction center. On LZ Margo, 81s forward observer Cpl Joe "Coop" Cooper manned this machine gun protecting the Alfa Command Group and landing zone. The FDC, gun pits, main landing zone, waterhole and Echo Company position are off to the left and downhill from this perspective.

A chopper touches down on Landing Zone Margo on September 15, 1968, the day before the battle. Photo courtesy of Eric Smith. No stranger to battlefields himself, during World War II he was taught Chinese, infiltrated into China and led Chinese guerrillas fighting the …

BATTLEFIELD STUDY: 2/26 at LZ MARGO in Vietnam, September 13-14 1968 — MajGen Jarvis Lynch, USMC (ret)

We dis­cussed the platoon, said a few things that needed to be said to one another, and he walked me down to the LZ. We stood there among the wreckage—the LZ was pock­marked by mortar fire and strewn with bodies and equipment.