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Before noon 13 September, the battalion, less C Company and part of D Company, was consolidated at Loc Ninh airfield where it boarded C-130s for an air assault operation. About 1245, the bobtailed battalion was airlanded by the C-130s on a strip of Highway 13, just few kilometers northwest of Hill 222.
28 kwi 2017 · This compelling work tells the horror of the three day battle and the units involved. As told in “The Life of a Warrior”, Sgt. Hack was severely wounded as he was trying to meet General Ware at the Loc Ninh airstrip via track vehicle.
The First Battle of Loc Ninh took place during the Vietnam War that occurred between 29 October and 7 November 1967, fought by the Viet Cong, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), Civilian Irregular Defense Group and the United States Army.
Battle of Loc Ninh Airstrip. Aerial view of the airstrip at Loc Ninh, near the Cambodian border. The Special Forces compound is next to the airstrip. The 2/28th perimeter is in the lower right, at the end of the airstrip.
22 paź 2017 · I am working on a map modeled after the battle of Loc Ninh. The battle took place in 1972 and involved the NVA and United States. The map will be centered...
North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces quickly overran Loc Ninh, a tiny district town in Binh Long Province near the Cambodian border. One week later, three NVA divisions, supported by tanks and massive amounts of artillery, launched an all out attack on An Loc, the capital of Binh Long Province, 60 miles north of Saigon.
The battle of Loc Ninh had begun nearly 24 hours earlier. Elements of the U.S. 18th Regiment had engaged about 8,000 Viet Cong soldiers in the vicinity. In the firefight that followed on October 29, four courageous Americans were killed.
