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12 cze 2006 · Snoopy, the dog in Charles Schultz’s popular Peanuts comic strip, regularly fights imaginary battles with the Red Baron and just as regularly loses the fight. For the artillerymen at LZ Snoopy in the spring of 1969, however, there was nothing at all imaginary about the Red Baron.
LZ Snoopy was an Americal firebase located along National Highway QL-1 in Quang Ngai Province, RVN. Among the munitions fired from Snoopy were white phosphorus rounds.
LZ Stinson. BS539824. Was LZ Buff - renamed (21 May 1969) for LTC Stinson killed on A/123d Avn Co. Helicopter #737 on March 3, 1969 in Hau Duc area. LZ Stinson was on hilltop approx. 13km MW of QuangNgai City, 5km N of Song Tra Chuc River, 24km due S of Chu Lai, 5km SSW of LZ Phoenix, 5km ENE ville of Xuan Hoa, 9km W of QL-1.
By daybreak, broken bodies of dozens of North Vietnamese and the flotsam of war littered the slopes of LZ Peanuts. The Landing Zone had remained in American hands, but at a significant cost of life for both sides. And yet history did little to preserve the fight for LZ Peanuts.
20 sty 2019 · The hill ultimately would be dubbed LZ Peanuts (initially named LZ Snoopy and renamed on April 23 rd). In a landscape that had most of its distinguishing features removed, LZ Peanuts looked like just another hill amongst many.
1969 is marked by the defense of LZ Snoopy from sapper and mortar attacks by members of B Btry (see related article available by clicking on the B Btry page).
Overrun in Cambodia. On 11 May 1970 troops from Delta 1-7 First Cav combat assaulted into an abandoned NVA base camp in Cambodia. In a very short time, the vast area, shown above as the choppers touch down, would be transformed into the ill fated LZ Ranch. Ranch was the first of a trio of US bases in Cambodia manned by 1/7 Cav and 1/21st Artillery.
