On April 22, 1969, PFC Jacques was with a mine sweep team that went south on Highway QL-1 on a demining mission. Blues arriving at Buttons. Five North Vietnam Army soldiers and their 2-ton truck became the first recorded casualties of the operation. Glad that you made it home brother! In total, the campaign had cost more than 900 American aircraft. In the early spring of 1969, D Company was located at LZ Thunder along Highway QL-1, about five miles southeast of Duc Pho in Quang Ngai Province, RVN. The 2001 version of Vietnam LZs, FBs, FSBs and Camps By: Dan Gillotti ©2001-2003 The Battle for Buttons. Widely considered the definitive resource on the Vietnam War, Where We Were identifies the name, location and provides a brief historical synopsis of every military installation, firebase, landing zone, airfield, port, signal site, vessel and significant terrain feature of the American war in Vietnam. Happy Vietnam vets day. Song Be 1970. At 0800 hours the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry conducted a landing zone reconnaissance which was followed ten minutes later by the combat assault of an Army of the Republic of Vietnam airborne battalion into LZ EAST. The measure of success the military developed for the war in Vietnam was the enemy body count… Nui Ba Ra Mountain in background on right, LZ Buttons with airstrip in background on left. Additionally, includes a substantial number from the French War as well. Steve Snider . ... (BS 913 145), near Tam Quan, and D Company at LZ Thunder (BS 868 318), south of Duc Pho, and B Company at LZ Max (BS 763 472) near Mo Duc. Marines in Hue, Vietnam “It explains why Marine commanders routinely, even casually, combine widely disparate kinds of capabilities into small units…. LZ North English Also called LZ English North, this FSB was located at BS883056 and was a 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) base of operations. Much better than humping the boonies, although we did lots of patrolling and ambushes. George Reischling "To those who have fought for it, Life has a flavor that the protected will never know!" th 7, th 10, thunder 11) are located north of thunder vi-a; where thunder 11 (eleven) is at edge of an loc. Steve Snider LZ Thunder 1968 11:36am 03-27-2020.

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On March 14, 1969, SSG Decker was within two weeks of rotating back to the U.S. as his one-year tour of Vietnam was concluding. 3:34pm 03-29-2020. This 105mm howitzer, "Ball Buster", was from the 6th/29th artillery. A view of Song Be City from FSB Buttons, January 1970 By Bert Schreibstein Marines send junior officers and NCOs out from their line rifle companies and expect results.