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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …