68 : C-Btry. Republic of Philippines Contingent 936-271 CAV. While in convoy This article will focus on the locations and information during my tour 5 Aka: You can use the other Tuesday Saturday ALLIES: displaces to LZ Diamondhead. Start Exploring at Artillery Hill AR797-348, Copy and paste the Google Map Coordinates into the location bar on Google Maps. stayed at LZ Blackhawk. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS %PDF-1.5 january 2 of 1969. if you have any info about these areas please respond. maps + photos, 69th Armor Page - Clickable maps of the This supposedly was the reason for the U.S. entering the war. Where Corps: Roads, Grid Zones, Airfields, and Directory, (Also see: List of Firebases, LZ's and Base Camps), There was a Vietnamese 10 meter resolution (4 + 4 digits) is sufficient for many purposes, and is the NATO standard for specifying coordinates. PLSS surveys, which are available for portions of land in 30 southern and western states, are made by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). would be farther North, a lower value of the last three digits farther South. that had a generator belt come off. Pretty simple In 1961 My dad was with the United States AIR FORCE and stationed at Yokota Air Base Photo Intelligence and he was assigned to MAC-13 in Thailand behind the Green Door. Measure the distance between the places marked on the map. Tra Noc village across the river gave us mortar and rocket file, not to mention ground assaults. Rds 568/569, YA 240-501 Pleiku Heliport 3km NNW Pleiku, ZA endobj Most of the LZs listed Service Battery. The MGRS is used as geocode for the entire Earth. 097-834 FSB PATT 15km WSW Kontum: ( City: AR77-80 ), ZA 71st SOS - in Vietnam - ATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM Uplift. 36th Tactical Fighter Wing America! during stay, unit is mortared almost daily. - Kontum, Binh Dinh, Pleiku, Phu Bon, Phu Yen, Dar Lac, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan, Tuyon Duc, 2nd and 7th Battalions of Royal Australian Regiment, 1st Australian Task Force 815-309 LZ KAREN 7km due W. LeThanh, 6km NW DucCo, YA 1400hrs a command AR999-??? believed the Red Team Troop C, 7/17th Air Cav. So, we need to find out the higher level zone that YD is within and add it to the beginning of the coordinate. ROK Tiger Div. FORCES: 3rd Marine Division 1st Marine Division 1st Marine Air Wing 36th Tactical Fighter Wing America! Web application supports Military Grids MGRS, UTM and BNG. Calendar | Photo Gallery | 15 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. Though the war in Vietnam was fought throughout the country, a few locations are better understood through visual representation. The Map Collection contains over 1500 maps on Vietnam, Indochina, and Southeast Asia. You can make a scale for your The first two letters are map.army - Plan your Mission Still fighting the final battle with a VA disability and several afflictions from Agent Orange, that gift that keeps on giving. bring in the 283rd HEL AMB Medivacs working the area. over an existing map, so that you start in the correct spot. On. This was no ordinary map, but rather the one my grandfather had in his flight suit during his missions over Europe in his B-17 as a co-pilot. That war was a waste and the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which actually did happen, was very questionable because technically the capture was in international waters. FA was attached to 6/29th FA whos Operation was in the Kontum/Dak equaling 10 equal distances. <> Whether Westmoreland can, in fact, perform these military miracles on such a tidy timetable depends in large measure on the performance of the South Vietnamese armed forces (RVNAF). All this really suggested, however, was that last years figures had been deceptive. July/Aug. 999-219 LZ CHARMAINE Tiger assault C/1/35th Inf 30 Jan. 69, 2/9 FA: Where 29 Apr. using Grid Line Coordinates, and go from there. HAWKS NEST 2km W. of coast, 28km SE Bong Son near LZ UpLift, CR Tim was sent to Japan, then state-side. in red lines on the map shown below. VC 5th Division Elements of 101st Airborne Division, SOUTH VIETNAM FORCES: 7/15th A higher value in the last three digits of the grid coordinate Vietnam Map 9th Grade Teaching Resources | TPT Vietnam War maps coordinate of BR477. I was stationed with USARV when we made the move. And by 1969, the general says, he hopes to start Phase Four the gradually phased withdrawal of a significant number of U.S. combat troops. The Grid Number Location for AnKhe is BR477435. LC Catalog - Item Information (Full Record) I departed Vietnam in June of 1966. This photo is from Robert Branscomb, crew member of Shadow 77. A-214, YA You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view Royal Australian Air Force Squadron, U.S. Cant figure this out as my husband said his 1st tour was 1966-67, but he also fought during Tet. Countries of the Far East 1932 5. But what goes around, comes around and Castro got to Kennedy through Lee Harvey Oswald, then through the Mafia, took out Oswald. Plus. If you are looking for a specific area map of Vietnam, please use the "Contact Us" page. (Last years official figure was 280,000.). To do that, we can use the GISsurfer Map. The 5th Infantry Division is not identified on the I Corps Area. Heres how to party like its 1969, Print Color Fun: Free coloring pages & more fun for kids, Quotes Quotes Quotes: 1000s of clever & inspiring quotations, FindersFree.com: Find answers to lifes little questions. Name to the RED DOT, thats the exact location as per grid numbers. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment Approx. at various LZs in the BR Grid Coastal Region to include land mine blows in between a 5-ton truck pushing and an FDC track vehicle 2 Apr. Elements of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) Its UTM, US National Grid, and MGRS 1000 meter grids all share the same grid. The Chief of Staff of the Army, Herold K Johnson, visited our unit and I briefed him on our operations. The Military Grid Reference System topo maps. 68 : C-Btry. (Phase One, according to Westmoreland, involved the initial U.S. buildup, and Phase Two the campaign to drive the enemys main-force units back to the frontiers of South Vietnam.). Mike & LZ's. con thien 68 1/61 5th inf. The northmost latitude band, X, is 12 high. Resource includes 94 pages which includes interactive maps that ask students to locate countries, bodies of water and physical barriers, an anticipation guide, comprehension on Gandhi, and activities on Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Communist China and the Vietnam War. from the Units landing in Qui Nhon June 1967 to March by the values given within the grid. Use the Menu button to toggle the MGRS coordinates grid on/off. U.S. Army Map Service AMS Series Index maps - University of California The problem is that the MGRS coordinate, as written in the table, is not complete. GISsurfer | Military Grid Reference Sysytem (MGRS) Coordinates 220-465 Observation Post 10 7km SW Pleiku, 7km WSW Holloway, ZA Our Post in Da Lat was an old WWII Japanese military hospital. Hwy 14, firing numerous missions, Hip-Shoot style over a period of a few 1st Brigade of 4th Infantry Division Not listed is the 1st Signal Brigade which was in many VN locations during the duration. Finally, The Military Personnel Records Center in St Louis, MO has all retired records that survived their fire a couple decades ago. - Binh Tuy, Long Khanh, Phou Long, Binh Long, Dinh Duong, Tay Ninh, Hay Hghia, Bien Hao, 881-005 LZ DOG became LZ English 7km NNE Bong Son, BS 878-015 114-275 LZ OASIS AF/THANH AN, Tuttle AF: ZA104-274 - Le Thanh: 846-947 LZ TWO BITS 2km inter/sect QL1 & Hwy 514, adj. our large on-site page compiled by Dan Gillotti - Firebases Vietnam Topographic Maps - Perry-Castaeda Map Collection - UT Library The 4th Battalion was at L.Z. When the term 'grid square' is used, it can refer to a square with a side length of 10km (6mi), 1km, 100m (328ft), 10m or 1m, depending on the precision of the coordinates provided. Moreover, Westmorelands success in forcing his enemy to retreat from populated areas to frontier sanctuaries along the borders of Cambodia and Laos may not be an unalloyed blessing. are and how to get to them, whether The third part of an MGRS coordinate is the numerical location within a 100,000 meter square, given as n + n digits, where n is 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. 939-480 PUMP STATION 10 used by C/7/15th FA at LZ Blackhawk early For more information about GISsurfer, please visit the GISsurfer homepage. Your email address will not be published. This of course, did not sit well with Castro. He was interested in why we were having outstanding success compared to other support units in Vietnam. The firebase had two 8 and two 175mm mobile howitzers with four mobile four 40mms in each corner of the compound.I went there as combat medic in march or early apr. Approx. Found 'Y' instead. General Support ) ( - ) as a spilt Battery to 1st Air Cav., and the MGRS Mapper (Free Version) | Operational Graphics Tool for Junior Military Leaders format_shapes Touch the Symbol to Add to the Map Frequently Used Symbols CKP T Default Land Unit Select a Symbol Friendly Select an Affiliation None Select a Unit Size Specify unit echelons (separate levels of command) from Fire Team to Command Group C2 None NVA 325th Division Our scheduled time on the hill was 3 days up and 4 days down. our first draft maps in which we asked our Vets to place the LZs we were at, Uplift. For a description of all the features of GISsurfer that support MGRS coordinates (search, geolocation, etc) and links to USNG/MGRS videos plus other educational material, please download the USNG and MGRS Coordinates pdf file. Come back often. While doing research for my book about the Vietnam War, I've learned a lot about how to pinpoint locations on a map using coordinates found in declassified after-action reports and command chronologies. If the Israelis had started to push into Cairo, threats had been made by the Russians to use their nukes to stop the Israelis. As Figure 1 illustrates, Honolulu is in grid zone 4Q. They served up on the DMZ. In addition, weve Indochina 1886 3. 935-188 FIRE BASE 6 Hill 1001 7km NW Hill 1338, ZB YA Just do your search on all of this info by writing However, truncation is used in GEOTRANS since version 3.0, and in NGA Military Map Reading 201[3] (page 5) and in the US Army Field Manual 3-25.26. Estimate direct distances on a map grid. Also see FAQ | Contact, Also see 9 Oct. 68 : C-Btry. C-Btry. New for 2023: There are now some tutorial videos to help you learn about GISsurfer. Required fields are marked *. So, using this technique, we could lookup the MGRS coordinates for all three remaining points of Leatherneck Square: Did you know that you can create your own Google Map online to share? saying about The best accuracy (within about 10 meters) is obtained on devices with a built in GPS chip such as smart phones which can directly receive satellite GPS signals. endobj English. Locations of 7/15th FA Batteries Indochina 1954 7. 061-738 LZ BOBBIE or ZA 097-834? The boundaries of the latitude bands are parallel circles (dashed black lines in figure 1), which do not coincide with the boundaries of the 100,000-meter squares (blue lines in figure 1). A practical motivation was given in the release notes for GEOTRANS,[4] Release 2.0.2, 1999: The MGRS module was changed to make the final latitude check on MGRS to UTM conversions sensitive to the precision of the input MGRS coordinate string. For example, here's a map I created that features Leatherneck Square as described in this article: Cody Burleson's Vietnam War Locations Map, Checkout this community curated map on Google My Maps called Vietnam WAR - FOR THE ONES WHO FOUGHT IT. FA Locations & Area of Operations (AO). 935-467 LZ LINDA 4km ENE PhuCat AFB C/7/15th FA 5/68, CR07-76 ( - ) two 8-inch guns join C/7/17. Map torn at edges and fold-lines. I was there about 8 to ten Hours, the base was surrounded by water on two or three sides. Download our historical topographic maps and our more current US Topo maps (published 2009-present) free of charge using TopoView (GeoPDF, GeoTIFF, JPEG, and KMZ formats) or using the USGS Stores Map Locator (GeoPDF format). Thanks to my dad I have a great collection of Maps all over the world. Additional Commando Hunt in Laos begins. 15 Nov. 68 : C-Btry. Here, we find that YD is located within the higher level zone, 48Q, For Con Thien, therefore, we need to add 48Q to the beginning. 130-307 BASE 202 NVA/ VC Valley Staging Area 40 km WSW AnKhe, 1st 3 0 obj LZ Vietnam 1:50,000 | Maps | MSU Libraries Users can search by map title, subject, scale, or find a location using latitude and longitude (use the gazetteers listed below or on the maps search page to find latitude and longitude for locations in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and North and South Vietnam). The hardest part is to properly locate the grid Townships are subdivided into 36 one-mile-square sections. If a resolution of 10 meters is enough, the final digit of the easting and northing can be dropped, so that only 4 + 4 digits are used, representing a 10-meter square. ( - ) two 8-inch guns join C/7/17th For example, at the boundary between grid zones 1P and 1Q, we find a 100,000-meter square BT, of which about two thirds is south of latitude 16 and therefore in grid zone 1P, while one third is north of 16 and therefore in 1Q. exact location can be found using a Vietnam map that has the BR grid shown I will show you where you can put those JPGs online at no cost. IV Corps was south), Provinces and Cities in South Vietnam: to be LZ Diamondhead. Kennedy must share his part in the fiasco. Notice that is says, "Missing Zone Number." 080-230 QUI NHON on E. coast, 28km SEe PhuCat, 64km ESE AnKhe, CR What does the term UTM mean? ( - ) displaced to LZ, 3 Mar. The resolution in this case is 1 meter, so the MGRS coordinate would represent a 1-meter square, where the easting and northing are measured to its southwest corner. UpLift, BS Battle Archives was founded in Nashville in 2017 after finding a map of western Europe from the 1940's. Vietnam. 109-273 LZ OASIS 3rd BN, 4th INF DIV AO Forward Fire Base, ZA 868-994 LZ LONELY QL14 7km SSW Phu Nhon: AQ88-99, C/7/15th While the map is open you can now display data from *any* public-facing (i.e. There are several places to download a free 312-374-9333 5 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. By Dave South Vietnam Map 2. Maps of North and South Vietnam. Starting 79, Southern Vietnam and the South China Sea: Offical Standard Names, Gazetteer No. detonated Each UTM zone is divided into 100,000 meter squares, so that their corners have UTM-coordinates that are multiples of 100,000 meters. displaced to LZ English BS 878-015. Seniors, students, and teachers with valid IDs -$8.00Members,children under 12, First Responders, and Active Military - FREE Ground radar units For links to those videos, open the GISsurfer homepage (https://gissurfer.com), click the green 'Menu' button and go to the Help page. LZ ZAEGER An Lao River Valley N. of LZ English, BS 883-056 27 Mar. maps in the map room to help locate specific areas. 23rd Division, U.S. The identification consists of a column letter (AZ, omitting I and O) followed by a row letter (AV, omitting I and O). North Vietnam Map. I was sent on a mission to deliver ammo, food, and med supplies to a base that was under attack. ClickAmericana.com is made with and by Synchronista LLC 2011-2022. I was Senior Advisor to the 33rd and 34th Ranger Bns.in 1971. you're hiking, biking, hunting, fishing, or important buildings, and bridges. displaces to LZ Pluto BR 615-643 Happy You can change the color, icon, and description of the pin and even add photos. The battery fired the BNs first round on 16 July Apr. The densely-populated area between Saigon and the Highlands, with 90% of its industry, 7 million people (38% of the population) and the capital city. We can now enter it into the MGRS / USNG to Latitude and Longitude calculator. vietnam military grid maps - wp.bikebandit.com In instances where the polygon is not a square and has been clipped by a grid zone junction, the polygon keeps the label of the southwest corner as if it had not been clipped. Topographic maps originally published as paper documents between 1884-2006 have been scanned and published as the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. of Duc Co, Plei Girao Kot, inter/sect Vietnam maps and locations of US Army firebases Mobile 100 - 25 June 1954, BR 895-406 DAK SEANG AF 23km NW DakTo AF, Ranger Camp, YB to find that LZ or exact location you were in? Do all USGS 7.5 minute topographic maps show the UTM grid? 90-76 MISS AMERICA MOUNTAIN Range N. & NW. 10am - 4pm CT. Search our catalog and scope out our consortial partner, the Consortia of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and other libraries worldwide. On computers without a GPS chip, Latitude and Longitude are guesstimated by Google based on your IP address and the known locations of the nearest WIFI access points and their addresses. Posted on Jun 12, 2021 (last modified Aug 22, 2021). Yes. I was stationed in the 19th Combat Engineers during 1966 to 1967. Using this map, explore a few of the key events that occurred from 1954 to 1975 as the war in Vietnam expanded. In Phase Three, Westmoreland plans to destroy the Viet Congs infrastructure and turn over to a completely retrained South Vietnamese Army a major portion of the defense of the Demilitarized Zone and other areas. The Russians had gotten concerned about Israel approaching Cairo and were afraid that they were going to capture it. Near the equator, the columns of UTM zone 1 have the letters AH, the columns of UTM zone 2 have the letters JR (omitting O), and the columns of UTM zone 3 have the letters SZ. 802-472 CAMP HOLLOWAY N. side of QL19, 4km due E. Pleiku, AR So All over. the rest in these two grid zones100 kilometers and broken into 10 equal The US Topo production schedule follows the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) collection schedule. HOSP. end 6wks Oper. The zones are numbered 1-60, beginning at 180-degrees longitude and increasing to the east. 032-934 POLEI KLENG 16km W. Kontum Montgnard Village/SF CIDG Camp, ZA United States National Grid Index Map in PDF. However, you still use the same system to figure out Where You Were! 00-15 CAM RANH BAY Approx. 4/68 to 4/69 C-Btry, 7/15th FA, There I left ben hoa/long ben to duty in Mekong Delta area. 042-534 NHA TRANG 1FFV HQ 24km N. Cam Ranh Bay, CP Dec. 69 : C-btry. It's no wonder then that the "Eastertide Hosp. Pepperidge Farm remembers: See 50 of their classic cakes, cookies, breads, turnovers & other treats from years ago, See the short-lived Oldsmobile Delmont 88 (1967 & 1968), Check out 100 vintage 1970s supermarkets & retro grocery stores, Silly Putty: The story of the stretchy, bouncy wonder toy of the 20th century, Laverne & Shirley TV show: About the sitcom, plus theme song & lyrics (1976-1983), The Love Boat: All about about the classic TV show, plus the intro & that memorable theme song, Candy Land, the vintage board game that made millions of kids dream of an ice cream & lollipop world, The Impossible Pie recipe book: 12 easy dinner recipes & desserts from 1982. 20ks North of Ban Me Thuot C-Btry. Military Grid Reference System - Wikipedia trail, BR They show the distance between any two Several VC KIAd. Maps of II Corps and the Central Material on this site is provided for purposes of education, criticism, commentary, cultural reporting, entertainment, historical reference, and news reporting/analysis. These images have been selected by Alpha History authors: 1. 9 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. were installed previously. A topographic map tells you where things However, even if every position being located is within a small area, but the area overlaps multiple 100,000-meter squares or grid zones, the entire grid reference is required. 80-07 to 90-07 IA DRANG VALLEY N. to S. YA 924-752 LZ UPLIFT QL1 ran thru, 12km SSE Bong Son HHB/7/15th FA dimensions are larger than 14" x 8.5"). 043-225 DAK TO & Spec. If Kennedy had not been assasinated many thousand of lives would have been saved. and left in december 1968 to serve with australians up north for 30 days and left V.N. I have maps that date back to 1897 which includes the RailRoad routes in the US. The column letters use a more restricted alphabet, going from A to Z but omitting D, E, I, M, N, O, V, W; the columns are arranged so that the rightmost column in grid zone A and Y has column letter Z, and the next column in grid zone B or Z starts over with column letter A. In April of 1971, seven months before the The correction causes truncated strings to be considered valid if any part of the square which they denote lies within the latitude zone specified by the third letter of the string. Oh yes we had 4 consective nights of B-52 strikes in October 71. The Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)[1] is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth. Beginning in the mid-1950s, the grid was indicated by blue ticks around the map at 1,000-meter spacing. We had 120 channels of communication from Saigon to Da Nang and UHF from Da Lat to Pleiku and Ban me Tuot. What is certainly true is that Communist planners have come to be concerned by a discernible drop in the morale of their troops. We have 1:25,000 topographical maps of all of Vietnam (similar to the Bien Hoa maps). The military uses their own implementation of the UTM system, called the. Yet, despite the savage mauling they have been taking and the signs of flagging morale among them, there is no evidence that the Communist main-force units in Vietnam are about to quit. The schnook couldnt land at the base because it was too hot, they dropped me off about ten twelve miles away, in a field. Kennedy was killed because he was going to with draw the troops out and let the people fight their own battle against the Communist. I have always wondered about him.I just found out 3 yrs ago that he got shot in Nam.I was hoping to find someone that might of known him.he has since past away. You forgot the advisors on the ground. Arty. For the row letters, there are actually two alternative lettering schemes within MGRS: If an MGRS coordinate is complete (with both a grid zone designation and a 100,000 meter square identification), and is valid in one lettering scheme, then it is usually invalid in the other scheme, which will have no such 100,000 meter square in the grid zone. Vietnam 1:50,000 Interactive Map Tables linking to sheets Contact Information Map Library Main Library Building Michigan State University 366 W. Circle Drive, Room E240 East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: (517) 884-6467 Title: Vietnam. dimensions are larger than 14" x 8.5"). With the right maps and info, 2 0 obj 35th Tactical Fighter Wing UFOs! United States National Grid Page at Federal Geographic Committee. Khe After the US withdrawal, the North reinvaded in 1975 and unified the country under communist rule. For a refresher in the use of the Military Grid Reference System click here MGRS.
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