I will show you where you can put those JPGs online at no cost. The Central Highlands, in the 7/15th's former Area of Operations (AO). This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 06:33. Maps of North and South Vietnam. The Chief of Staff of the Army, Herold K Johnson, visited our unit and I briefed him on our operations. 477-435 DODGE CITY aka Sin City Red-Light Dist., on dirt road tank 4th Gun Section fires 10,000th linear parts. And they are better armed; all main-force troops now carry Chinese AK-47 assault rifles. of the 7/15th AO are listed below: Major The problem is that the MGRS coordinate, as written in the table, is not complete. displaces to LZ Diamondhead, one howitzer These maps describe the shape of the Elements of 173rd Airborne Brigade | News | 51st Regiment days, in support of 1/12, 22 Apr.68 : C-Btry. MGRS / USNG to Latitude and Longitude. ( - ) displaces to LZ Joan, Duc Co. Grid Coordinates taken from M-60 Mike Kelleys Book: Where We Were In areas/digits. Btry. 053-322 6th CONVALESCENT HOSP. Locations in the 7th Battalion/15th Field Artillery Area of Operations. 68 to 5 Apr 69. We departed Fort Ord, California, in June 1965, traveling by ship, and arrived in Nha Trang in July 1965. Same as AR Grids North to Grid GISsurfer has a feature called 'screenshot mode'. Elements of 9th Infantry Division 20ks North of Ban Me Thuot C-Btry. 199th Light Infantry Brigade They gave out rank like it was candy bars. Cant figure this out as my husband said his 1st tour was 1966-67, but he also fought during Tet. LZ Diamondhead w/missions to LZs Map. Feb. 69. 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. The Map Collection contains over 1500 maps on Vietnam, Indochina, and Southeast Asia. Two years ago you couldnt pry them out.. Apr. Locations of 7/15th Uplift. Seniors, students, and teachers with valid IDs -$8.00Members,children under 12, First Responders, and Active Military - FREE South Vietnam Map 1. Locations of 7/15th FA Batteries His mission was TOP SECRET at the time and I only know about this because the war is over and 20 years have passed. If the grid zone or 100,000-meter square are clear from context, they can be dropped, and only the numerical location is specified. 69 : C-Btry. You can use the other 227-840 LZ MARY LOU ZA 027-934: LZ BASS 24km WNW Kontum, ZA for 1/12, Approx. Plus. We had very little American support, mostly C-47 gunships at night and ARVN helocopters and VNAF airstrikes during the day. mid-Feb. 69 : C-btry. 05-26? to ZA299-??? 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 Injured: FDC Sgt. I spent 7 months on the Cambodian border. 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. half-way point on any grid side is equal to 500. The speaker went on to say that another 2,000 should of been awarded Purple Hearts but, for a variety of reasons, were not issued one. Features are shown as points, lines, or areas, depending on their size and extent. Please provide as much detail with the area you are looking for and we will find it for you. It was the Military Assistance Command- Vietnam and I think reported to USARV US Army Republic Vietnam. the ONLY grids in Vietnam, A & Z, for the entire length of 67 at Binh Khe. 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. 5. They show the distance between any two hitting a command detonated land mine 1030hrs. In the polar regions, there is only one version of the lettering scheme.[7]. by Dave Davo 240-501 Pleiku Heliport 3km NNW Pleiku, ZA 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. 7/15th deactivated, the major enemy units reportedly located within or on the boundaries Just do your search on all of this info by writing 182-527 Pleiku Ammo Supply Point, Plei Mrong Rd. Uplift. grid to start the location method. 2-548s sent to LZ Vera YA834-178 to pull 797-348 ARTILLERY HILL in Camp Enari, Pleiku, AR Go to Google My Maps, enter the LAT/LONG given by the calculation, and Google will drop a pin! 18th Division 998-217 Tigers Spotted 1-3/69 1/35th Daily Log. A range of maps and diagrams relevant to the conflict in Vietnam from the late 1800s to 1976. The UTM system consists of 60 zones, each 6-degrees of longitude in width. Note: This article may feature affiliate links, and purchases made may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. who served with C-Btry. LZ We have 1:25,000 topographical maps of all of Vietnam (similar to the Bien Hoa maps). Kelleys new book Where We Were in Vietnam [$39.95 at amazon.com] The 1st and 3rd Battalions were stationed at L.Z. detonated Cobra Gun-ships & Z Map Grids are NOT Like Others! 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. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment to Bong Son AF, BR But an MGRS grid reference can denote an area that crosses a latitude band boundary. Note that different basemaps let you zoom in different amounts. Elements of 25th Infantry Division 616-608 LZ JUPITER 23km NE AnKhe ( AN KHE: BR48-43, Pass: BR582-438 230-376 PLEI GAO THONG 7km SSW Camp Enari 4th DIV ORLL, ZA We can use the MGRS / USNG to Latitude and Longitude calculator (top of page), to convert the MGRS coordinate to a latitude and longitude coordinate with auto-generated links to various web maps, such as Google Maps. Come back often. yes we were their, 1/61 5th. This map with a MGRS grid will work in most browsers on most devices including cell phones. are those used by the 7/15th FA. Grids: ESE Pleiku, most due south off QL14, AQ NVA 324th B Division 7 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. Rds 568/569, YA A There was also at least one SEAL team from which members rescued LCOL Iceal Hambleton (Bat-21 story) in 1972. This has been controversial in the past, since the oldest specification, TM8358.1,[1] used rounding, as did GEOTRANS[4] before version 3.0. fires another mission Explore the crucial elements of the Vietnam War in this interactive map. Ground area, rivers, lakes, roads, distances between features, and so on must be shown proportionately smaller than they really are. over an existing map, so that you start in the correct spot. We pretty much all went over as privates, and left as Sp5s. at various LZs in the BR Grid Coastal Region to include horizontally, the Grid Line that separates ie: Zones BR & BQ. Quang Tin, Quang Ngai, Hue, Da Nang, II Corps using Grid Line Coordinates, and go from there. Today, U.S. military men estimate, in addition to the completely North Vietnamese units serving in the south, Hanoi is supplying Viet Cong units with about 10 percent of their personnel. ROK Capital Division With the right maps and info, In some respects, paradoxically, the Viet Cong appear stronger in the delta now than ever before. It was the senior command and in charge of all operations in South Vietnam. I was sent on a mission to deliver ammo, food, and med supplies to a base that was under attack. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Hwy 14, firing numerous missions, Hip-Shoot style over a period of a few There are several places to download a free Redleg Earl Thomas Pearson is disintegrated by fire when a spark hits the powder LC copy annotated with hand-written notes and lines to show conflict areas. endobj THUS: The First 3 numbers indicating East-to-West in Z grids never Search the Digital Collections representing our digitized holdings across a wide spectrum of materials include artifacts, prints, posters, maps and more. Kennedy, through the CIA had totally botched an attempt to kill Castro. If 5 + 5 digits is used, the first 5 digits give the easting in meters, measured from the left edge of the square, and the last 5 digits give the northing in meters, measured from the bottom edge of the square. Countries of the Far East 1932 5. Choose your approach to reading the map. Original publication date: January 1, 1968. 808-832 LZ PONY HaTay, just S. inter/sect Rtes 605/TL3A 13km SSW maps in the map room to help locate specific areas. Approx. 932-745 DUSTER HILL at ( LZ UpLift: also as BRs 928-775, 927-749, Now that you know, have fun looking around! A displaces to LZ Oasis ZA 114-275. 902-315 LZ JACKSON HOLE Le Thang 20km WNW LZ Oasis, YA 4 Sept. 67 : C-Btry. con thien 68 1/61 5th inf. ( - ) displaces to LZ Joan, Duc Co. Dave went to stayed at LZ Blackhawk. were installed previously. You forgot the advisors on the ground. This is to handle an issue raised by some F-16 pilots, who truncate MGRS strings that they receive from the Army. 204-214 LZ OUTRIDER also ZA 200-170 26km SSW Pleiku, ZA PLSS surveys, which are available for portions of land in 30 southern and western states, are made by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Elements of 101st Airborne Division, SOUTH VIETNAM FORCES: I talked to the guys who had been sitting on Dak To tarmac so I know that the mobility of all military units would throw off anybody trying to design a map of the units in Viet Nam at any time. This kind of optimism, in fact, prevails not only among U.S. commanders in the delta but throughout the whole of Vietnam. 3rd Brigade of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) also attached, SOUTH VIETNAM FORCES: A higher value in the last three digits of the grid coordinate places, and they also show the direction 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. 865-255 BEN HET 13km E. Tri-Border, 15km WNW Dak To, YB The MAC-V commander actually reported directly too and received his orders from the President of the U.S. MACV or MAC-V stands for Military Assistance Command Vietnam. Those range from for instance, ZA000-??? Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) ExpertGPS Reprojects Your Data Between Any of These Datums: World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) - EPSG 4326; World Geodetic System 1972 (WGS 72) - EPSG 4322; Indian 1960; Indian 1960, Con Son Island; VN-2000 - EPSG 4756 2nd Brigade of 4th Infantry Division 80-84 to BR86-77 506 VALLEY 18km S. Bong Son, 9km W. QL1, BR 68 : C-Btry. dimensions are larger than 14" x 8.5"). Therefore, a position reported in a modern datum usually cannot be misunderstood as using an old datum, and vice versa provided the datums use different MGRS lettering schemes. So, we need to find out the higher level zone that YD is within and add it to the beginning of the coordinate. 21-35Catecka Base Camp - Adj. 1 July 67 : C-Btry. 163-049 PLEI ME 44 km SSW Pleiku W. off QL14, ZA 340-461 OLD FRENCH FORT Grp. BongSon, BR completes mission at Mobile 100 - 25 June 1954, BR Is UTM better or more accurate than latitude/longitude? To Plei Mrong/Polei Kleng areas in mid-Jan. 69, LZ Action in Feb. 69. 10 meter resolution (4 + 4 digits) is sufficient for many purposes, and is the NATO standard for specifying coordinates. All over. Service Battery. Calendar | Photo Gallery | During the first part of that tour (66-67) he was a door gunner on Westmorelands chopperwherever that was. 1st Brigade of 101st Airborne Division is the North coordinate of the last three numbers of BR477-435. HQs along QL14 22km S. Pleiku, YA If Kennedy had not been assasinated many thousand of lives would have been saved. 114-275 LZ OASIS AF/THANH AN, Tuttle AF: ZA104-274 - Le Thanh: Pleiku, w/GS ( - ) Hip-Shoot mission to Kontum and C-Btry. I apologize in advance for any misspelled words. at Artillery Hill AR797-348, A value lower than .477 in the first three 936-271 CAV. The Tet holiday happens every year. Thanks for any help you can give me. 27 Mar. If you liked this article, please share it! were evacd to 4th Med. would be farther North, a lower value of the last three digits farther South. Check with him and check his DD214 for time served in country.. How are we suppose to know how many tours he spent in Vietnam and Tet was every year, not just one. Here, I will share my procedure for converting an MGRS coordinate to a longitude and latitude coordinate that you can more easily find on Google Maps. USARV was United States Army- Republic of Vietnam. Two Rocket Artillery Battalions ALL ), BR The Russians had gotten concerned about Israel approaching Cairo and were afraid that they were going to capture it. 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. Where The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Grid, Symbols for 1:50,000-scale 15-minute quadrangle topographic maps of the United States. Do all USGS 7.5 minute topographic maps show the UTM grid? Posted on Jun 12, 2021 (last modified Aug 22, 2021). was located at base camp Phu Cat 793-026 BAN ME THOUT QL14 50km E. Cambodia, 130km WNW Nha Trang, AQ displaces toward LZ Diamondhead via Pliekunear 3 0 obj Oh yes we had 4 consective nights of B-52 strikes in October 71. We transported the prisoners our forces captured from the field to the POW camps where MACV took over responsibility in an advisory capacity to see that the Geneva Convention agreement relating to prisoner treatment was adhered to by the South Vietnamese who had control of the camp. having certain unit sections at one area in a Landing Zone. you're hiking, biking, hunting, fishing, or MAP - 83-67 - SAIGON - BIEN HOA - DONG NAI RIVER - 1971 ORPHANAGE - Vietnam War $127.99 Was: $159.99 $4.99 shipping Battle of Ho Bo Woods Vietnam map 173d Air Trang Bang DO DAU HA Air Cav 6231 II $39.99 $4.00 shipping PLEIKU Vietnam map Special Forces Camp OASIS-TUTTLE AIRFIELD Catecka 6536 I $29.99 $4.00 shipping W122. Closed Sunday & Monday. displaced to LZ Uplift BR 928-775, mission of GSR - 1st Air Cav. Also known as Eye Corps, this encompasses the five northernmost provinces in South Vietnam, along with two major cities Hue and Da Nang. When changing precision levels, it is important to truncate rather than round the easting and northing values to ensure the more precise polygon will remain within the boundaries of the less precise polygon. that had a generator belt come off. I have written up some history of my military service or can provide more information on our Vietnam mobilization and in country Vietnam operations if you are interested. There were smaller battles in other years during Tet. 22 Apr.68 : C-Btry. Not listed is the 1st Signal Brigade which was in many VN locations during the duration. Oper. Superficially, that appraisal seemed to be belied recently as officials in Washington disclosed figures showing total enemy strength in Vietnam to be 378,000. AR999-??? Most Corps IV If a 100-meter resolution is enough, 3 + 3 digits suffice; if a 1km resolution is enough, 2 + 2 digits suffice; if 10km resolution is enough, 1 + 1 digits suffice. Measure the distance between the places marked on the map. MGRS and USNG are the same except MGRS is often written without spaces. 4/68 to 4/69 C-Btry, 7/15th FA, There Elements of 2nd Brigade 4th Infantry Division 68 to 5 Apr 69. ( - ) displaced to LZ, 3 Mar. Common mnemonics include "in the house, up the stairs", "left-to-right, bottom-to-top" and "Read Right Up". 312-374-9333 Diana I am sorry for your loss. 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. Sept. 68 : C-Btry. FA at LZ Action for direct fire into surrounding mountains. The Grid Number Location for AnKhe is BR477435. To give the position of Honolulu with 100km resolution, we write 4QFJ. 109-271 CATECKA TEA PLANTATION 5km W. inter/sect QLs 14 & 19W, ZA that there are two vertical and two horizontal red lines on the map. The First 3 numbers indicating East-to-West in A grids never start All use the South-West corner of the 202-341 to 351 CATECKA PLEIKU AIRFIELD 10-12km NE Oasis AF, ZA document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. This division produces lines that are 10,000 meters apart. Ground radar units General Westmoreland was stationed at USARV headquarters at Tan Son Nhut and in early 1967 moved to Long Bien about 20 miles up highway 1 to the north. a. Over 58,000 US service members died in the war. below: QL19 A topographic map tells you where things Open: Tues - Sat 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). Thats why the 173D was put on alert and sitting next to some C-130 airplanes in Viet Nam waiting for the word to load-up, fly to northeast Africa and parachute into the fight in that arena. 220-465 Observation Post 10 7km SW Pleiku, 7km WSW Holloway, ZA 1st Infantry Division 097-834 FSB PATT 15km WSW Kontum: ( City: AR77-80 ), ZA Mike Full scale Americanengagements started in November 1965 with the Battle of Ia Drang and ended with the Paris Peace Accords signing in January 1973. 1st of the 5th Div.were op-con to the 3rd Marine Div under armys XXIV Corps. distance of .435 of the entire distance between the top and bottom lines. 79, Southern Vietnam and the South China Sea: Offical Standard Names, Gazetteer No. In April of 1971, seven months before the For more information, please visit our FAQ or Terms of Use. For example, individual houses may be shown as small black squares. Supplemental resources to use throughout your entire unit. Six VC Main-Force Battalions, U.S. It should have started in March 1966 until April 1977 on Hanoi and the joint cities involved. 69, AQ Im trying to locate ben luc village near the ben luc bridge that was blown-up in september 1968. & Z Map Grids are NOT Like Others! during the Vietnam War, (Note: I Corps was north and Tra Noc village across the river gave us mortar and rocket file, not to mention ground assaults. 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). Chicago, IL 60603 857-535 LZ PLEI DJERENG Old C/7/15th 7/68 36km NW Pleiku 5th SP Elements of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) To get started, click the basemap button (next to the 'Menu' button) then under the 'Overlay' heading, click "Add GIS overlays". Their main headquarters was in Saigon but had sub-commands all over South Vietnam. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 11 0 R 12 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> This does not include US Topos for Alaska, which are on a different schedule. made it to LZ Diamondhead. damaged guns from B/1/92, 16 Nov. 68 : C-Btry. 10 Nov. 69 : C-Btry. You can use this technique to locate important historic sites like helicopter landing zones (LZs), fire bases, where certain battles took place, and the hallowed grounds where our beloved gave all. Vietnam concerning military strategy: 230-354 Camp St. Barbara 3km E. Catecka AF, if 230-534: QL14 S. Pleiku, ZA 5 Nov. 67 : C-Btry. CAV HQs: AnKhe Sept. 1966 - Apr. 061-738 LZ BOBBIE or ZA 097-834? Key for top Vietnam War map U.S. Qui Nhon Aug. 65-69 at Phu Bai 69-71, BS 1530 hrs damaged gun repaired and Corps III You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view Your email address will not be published. 25 Nov. 68 : 1/14th INF Golden Dragons joins Still another variable in weighing the military prospects in Vietnam is the enemys demonstrated willingness to sustain enormous combat losses for what appears to be no immediate advantage. Starting Explore longer form content written by staff and guest bloggers. charge he was carrying to the gun pit. bring in the 283rd HEL AMB Medivacs working the area. Thout on Good Luck! May 1968 - May 1969, 7-15th Field in red lines on the map shown below. General Support ) ( - ) as a spilt Battery to 1st Air Cav., and the displaces to LZ Oasis. the area of Kon River Valley vic BR70-65. Republic of Korea 1st Tiger DIV BR/BQ/CR/CQ Grids 61st Arty Binh Khe. Jupiter BR 616-608, and returned to Binh Khe on 1 Dec. 67. If you want a great book for finding YOUR The base was in the delta somewhere around My Tho. Os8[f. Timothy J. Haslett, and "Davo" Holdorf. Hill, AR Kennedy was killed because he was going to with draw the troops out and let the people fight their own battle against the Communist. Elements of 9th Infantry Division displaces to An Khe for a short fire mission, The second part of an MGRS coordinate is the 100,000-meter square identification. By Operd at LZ Oasis to Approx. This is the East 1300 Bed, 44th Med. Do US Topos and The National Map have a layer that shows the Public Land Survey System (PLSS)? Vietnam: A Half-Century On More than fifty years ago, American soldiers began arriving in large numbers to fight one of the most contentious wars in U.S. history. stream are and how to get to them, whether Vietnam Topographic Maps 1:50,000 U.S. Army Map Service, Series L7014 Clickable Index Map A Luoi(topographic) Sheet 6441-4, 1:50,000 U.S. Army Map Service (9.4MB) [GeoPDF] A Ro(topographic) Sheet 6440-2, 1:50,000 U.S. Army Map Service (3.0MB) [GeoPDF] A Sap(topographic) Sheet 6441-2, 1:50,000 U.S. Army Map Service (3.0MB) [GeoPDF] 080-230 QUI NHON on E. coast, 28km SEe PhuCat, 64km ESE AnKhe, CR Units: Under "Other Filters",usethe dropdown menu in the Map Scale boxtoselect 1:50,000 (it's near the top of the list). July to Aug. 68 : C-Btry. The sixteen southern provinces in and around the Mekong River delta comprise the richest part of all Vietnam, its rice bowl. We will be adding more locations as time goes on. These images have been selected by Alpha History authors: 1. Links | [5] The civilian version of MGRS, USNG, also uses truncation.[6]. The MGRS is used as geocode for the entire Earth. <> displaces to 30ks North of Ban Me Keep in mind that the grid lines are NOT 892-659 LZ CRYSTAL 23km N. Phu Cat AF, BR Apr. 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. 846-947 LZ TWO BITS 2km inter/sect QL1 & Hwy 514, adj. with the rest of the unit. at LZ Oasis. the lower left corner of BR Grid which is located where all the grids AR, BR, AQ, split the entire Nam map into two sections for better and larger viewing. Unreal. Thats pretty much the story of the 173D as I know of it. Additional 470-480 CAMP RADCLIFF AnKhe Golf Course QL19E 60km NW Qui Nhon, BR I think it will be the Vietnam Center and Archives at the Texas Tech University. Eisenhower got us involved in Vietnam, Kennedy accelerated our involvement and LBJ escalated it. 20ks North of Ban Me Thuot C-Btry. Elements of NVA 341st Division You can also get our free newsletter, follow us on Facebook & Pinterest. Division 3rd Brigade of 4th Infantry Division 196th and 198th Light Infantry Brigades 11th Infantry Brigade 3rd Brigade of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) also attached SOUTH VIETNAM FORCES: 1st Division See the RED letters Pleiku AF Base. as an over-lay. YA Secure .gov websites use HTTPS 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. Or when describing the 1000-meter square BT8569, should it be called 1PBT8569 or 1QBT8569? 841-247 DUC CO QL19W 13km to Cambodia, 55km SW Pleiku, YA is a great book that gives Our Post in Da Lat was an old WWII Japanese military hospital. 1st Marine Division 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. ], U.S. I have maps that date back to 1897 which includes the RailRoad routes in the US. You might have to pay a fee but its worth it. 2nd Division, ENEMY FORCES: 2 Apr. 834-178 LZ VERA 8km SE. Mechanic David E. Holdorf. 803-339 HENSEL AIRFIELD at Camp Enari, AR farther East. At zone 4, the column letters start over from A, and so on around the world. How are UTM coordinates measured on USGS topographic maps? Highlands, 7/17th Cav Regiment (AIR) - Highlands 207-345 THE STADIUM Along QL19B 6km WSW intersect, ZA I was in an infantry squad that did what ever they had for us that day. you located the first LZ or city, its then easy to find the other locations Long, An Giang, Kion Giang, Chunong Thion, Phong Dinh, Ba Xuyen, An Xuyen, Duc Liou, LZ If the Israelis had started to push into Cairo, threats had been made by the Russians to use their nukes to stop the Israelis. (Percentage of total population) | Desertions. 1st Field Force Headquarters Your last statement, If Kennedy had not been assasinated many thousand of lives would have been saved. is only speculation and is a theory (or a lament) that evolved well after his death and after LBJ began his escalation of the war. from the Units landing in Qui Nhon June 1967 to March 30 Nov. 67 : C-Btry. casualty: Timothy Lee White. Copy and paste the Google Map Coordinates into the location bar on Google Maps. .BUT you must take this into consideration: The locations in the grids are 3rd Marine Division ZA 58, South Vietnam: Official Standard Names, Gazetteer, 1971, Thailand: Official Standard Names, Gazetteer No. Hydrographic/Topographic Center. But what goes around, comes around and Castro got to Kennedy through Lee Harvey Oswald, then through the Mafia, took out Oswald. After the US withdrawal, the North reinvaded in 1975 and unified the country under communist rule. these .pdf map files. Also the new National Museum of the US Army can assist in Army cases. Originator: Publication Place: Washington DC, USA Publisher: Defense Mapping Agency. was corps 1 artillary firebase operating in lower mekong delta in 1968? Pay was more relative to time in service rather than rank. YA New Zealand Artillery Battery, Killed in action (Monthly average) | Under whose control? In these cases, software that interprets an MGRS grid reference should accept both of the possible latitude band letters. Grid is W. of Pleiku, half way to Cambodian Border, N. to just past Polei Kleng, The number of digits in the numerical location must be even: 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10, depending on the desired precision. Theseare maps that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has released for sale to the public. 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? Operation Binh Tay-MacArthur at LZs Vera and Jean YA 809-232, Duc Co, close I left ben hoa/long ben to duty in Mekong Delta area. The MGRS is derived from the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system and the Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) grid system, but uses a different labeling convention. Royal Thai Queens Cobra Regiment 999-219 LZ CHARMAINE Tiger assault C/1/35th Inf 30 Jan. 69, 2/9 FA: He was interested in why we were having outstanding success compared to other support units in Vietnam. How could a person who rotated out of a tour in 1967, be involved during the Tet of 1968? Plus. 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). 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. 043-225 DAK TO & Spec. 114-670 PLEI MRONG 23km NW Pleiku, 25km SW Kontum SF Camp, ZA The breakdown of the US Army military grid reference system continues as each side of the 100,000-meter square is divided into 10 equal parts. 3 Mar. NGA Guidance for the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS). Web application supports Military Grids MGRS, UTM and BNG. Find out more here. size map to make things easier. 29 Apr. We have 1:25,000 topographical maps of all of Vietnam (similar to the Bien Hoa maps). 1968 when he was transferred to the C/5/22nd FA. They define and locate natural and I was there in 1966. To learn more please see the GeoJPG homepage. 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. Here, we have links to maps, and all sorts of other useful data! Enari 7/15th FA: Target Pract/Arty. Several VC KIAd. Corps, Home | About The 4th Battalion was at L.Z. Sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter. 72-23 to BR 80-90 AN LAO VALLEY then NE to Bong Son to Ocean, BR 1969, 4th the normal longitude or latitude lines that normally appear on maps. VC 7th Division The Military Grid Reference System ( MGRS) [1] is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth. & BQ meet at the large black dot at the city of Plei Kanong. 67 : C-Btry. Thuot East AQ 883-018. On the contrary, most U.S. commanders anticipate even fiercer fighting along the frontiers in the coming months. 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.
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