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Provinces and Cities in South Vietnam. Simplified Military Map Reading. “Where We Were” 4/68 to 4/69 C-Btry, 7/15th FA. There were 43 Provinces and 4 Military Regions (MR) in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. (Note: I Corps was north and IV Corps was south)
A virtual tour of Vietnam as seen by veterans who served on Hill 4-11 or in the 3rd Battalion, 1st Infantry or one of its supporting units.
FSB Hill 4-11 was located on a small hill about 7 miles west of Quang Ngai City, Vietnam. This fire support base was fighting home of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 11th LIB, Americal Division from July 1969 to October 1971.
On this day, July 8, 1969, first platoon, in a column of two’s, entered the rear of the Chinook helicopter, and the Chinook lifted off to take us to secure the new firebase location on a hill seven miles west of Quang Ngai City.
Entrance to D/6/56 Arty Chu Lai is across bay in the background Photo: Edward Donato. FSB Currahee. First known as Ta Bat. On the floor of A Shau, a few clicks from Dong Ap Bia (Hamburger Hill) 1969 Photo: Roger Dent. B/2/11 Arty went in with all 6 guns and an Infantry platoon on 9 or 10 May 1969 Photo: Roger Dent.
Fire support base Crook, Vietnam, 1969. A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) is a temporary military facility used to provide fire support (often in the form of artillery) to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps.
12 lip 2011 · For further information on firebases, military installations and naval vessels of the Vietnam War 1945-75 see: WHERE WE WERE IN VIETNAM By: Michael P. Kelley. Published in 2002 List price $39.95. Buy the book at Amazon.com
