2 Apr. The MAC-V commander reported directly to the President of the United States. The 16 southern provinces in the Mekong River Delta area, including the rich rice bowl. [See more in the article below. 4th INF DIV Area of Opers. 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. 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. Apr. Is this map available for purchase? You can now use GISsurfer to take a series of screenshots that exactly adjoin. Vietnam grids use the same location method. Where Thanks for sharing this wonderful pictorial, and facts about Vietnam. ( - ) still at LZ Action. 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. Plei Djereng YA 85-45. There are other geographic naming systems of this alphanumeric kind: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Hill, AR days, in support of 1/12th Task forcethen displaced to Ban Me 92-50 PHU CAT 32km N Qui Nhon Service-Btry/7/15th I am now retired, and a resident at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy, Illinois. displaced to Elements of NVA 341st Division Topographic maps originally published as paper documents between 1884-2006 have been scanned and published as the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. 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. The 1st and 3rd Battalions were stationed at L.Z. as an over-lay. detonated 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. 888-570 LZ HAMMOND W. side QL1, 10km NNW Phu Cat, BR There are nearly 200,000 South Vietnamese regulars, militia and irregulars operating in the delta, along with 9,000 U.S. troops, and they have inflicted serious wounds on the enemy. Summer 1969 below: QL19 Station 10 AR 939-480. Upon arriving in Vietnam, C-Btry. The Tet holiday happens every year. Dave went to Without going into detail, just think of them as normal 100 kilometer If the Israelis had started to push into Cairo, threats had been made by the Russians to use their nukes to stop the Israelis. for 1/12th Task Force. An example of an MGRS coordinate, or grid reference, would be 4QFJ12345678, which consists of three parts: An MGRS grid reference is a point reference system. Several VC KIAd. 9 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. INF DIV AO: Pleiku Upper Highlands Sept. 68 - Dec. 70 & AnKhe, ROK Fire Support Base Locations by Grid Coordinate 220-465 Observation Post 10 7km SW Pleiku, 7km WSW Holloway, ZA saying about Notice that is says, "Missing Zone Number." 851-550 LZ JENNY 38km ENE AnKhe, ROK LZ, C/7/15th FA 5/68, BR at the SW corner on the bottom BR Grid line ( Plei Kanong ), move along the girds overlapping without being able to see the entire grid. BongSon, BR Map: Highways QL-1, QL-14 and QL-19, II Map torn at edges and fold-lines. There are Key for top Vietnam War map U.S. The videos that I am still working on will walk you though that process. Grid Reference: Example: 12U UA 84323 40791 12U UA 84 40. . Quang Duc, Lan Dong, Binh Thuan, Can Raah, III Corps A using Grid Line Coordinates, and go from there. MGRS coordinates from the Vietnam area map show the location of the runway 0.66 Km at 134 degrees from the actual site. Eisenhower got us involved in Vietnam, Kennedy accelerated our involvement and LBJ escalated it. 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! C-Battery, 7th BN, 15th Field Artillery 3 Mar. dimensions are larger than 14" x 8.5"). Thuot East AQ 883-018. This kind of optimism, in fact, prevails not only among U.S. commanders in the delta but throughout the whole of Vietnam. The Central Highlands area in South Vietnam, consisting of 12 provinces, and the largest of the four corps in size. 857-535 LZ PLEI DJERENG Old C/7/15th 7/68 36km NW Pleiku 5th SP His mission was TOP SECRET at the time and I only know about this because the war is over and 20 years have passed. 483rd Troop Carrier Wing 935-467 LZ LINDA 4km ENE PhuCat AFB C/7/15th FA 5/68, CR07-76 The Chief of Staff of the Army, Herold K Johnson, visited our unit and I briefed him on our operations. exact location can be found using a Vietnam map that has the BR grid shown Those screenshots can show any public GIS data. displaces to LZ Pluto BR 615-643 Happy Squares that cross a latitude band boundary, International Terrestrial Reference System, Spatial Reference System Identifier (SRID), Learn how and when to remove this template message. THUS: The First 3 numbers indicating East-to-West in Z grids never Approx. The Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)[1] is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth. Elements of 9th Infantry Division Two Rocket Artillery Battalions 68 to 5 Apr 69. In 1979, the ticks were replaced with a full-line black UTM grid. The military uses their own implementation of the UTM system, called the. The strikes were just across the border. All use the South-West corner of the On. 477-435 DODGE CITY aka Sin City Red-Light Dist., on dirt road tank The schnook couldnt land at the base because it was too hot, they dropped me off about ten twelve miles away, in a field. Oper. to We used to sit and watch the VC supply boats get hit with gunship fire at night. Found 'Y' instead. & LZ's. Your email address will not be published. 080-230 85th EVAC. IV Corps was south), Provinces and Cities in South Vietnam: Mobile 100 - 25 June 1954, BR I departed Vietnam in June of 1966. Plus. There are several places to download a free Measure direct distances using a scale. Not listed is the 1st Signal Brigade which was in many VN locations during the duration. This ALL By Dave VC 7th Division Then give each section an amount or value of 100 Vietnam concerning military strategy: 23 Apr. ALLIES: The map is displayed by GISsurfer which is a general purpose web map based on the Leaflet map API (Application Program Interface). App to create, save and exchange Military Maps according to MIL-STD-2525 and STANAG APP-6. 815-309 LZ KAREN 7km due W. LeThanh, 6km NW DucCo, YA weve re-drawn the original using grid coordinates. The UTM system consists of 60 zones, each 6-degrees of longitude in width. 114-275 LZ OASIS AF/THANH AN, Tuttle AF: ZA104-274 - Le Thanh: go to the net and write USA in Viet Nam maps and information There is also a complete list of all bases and Air strips. 20ks North of Ban Me Thuot C-Btry. 1st Division the ONLY grids in Vietnam, A & Z, for the entire length of N. LZ Action, BR Note that different basemaps let you zoom in different amounts. 97, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, 2023 Texas Tech University, 2023 Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive. 1st Infantry Division displaced to LZ English BS 878-015. 363-457 LZ SCHUELER On QL19E 13km W. AnKhe B/C/7/15th FA 4-10/71, BR Name Grid Coordinates Additional Information Google Map Coordinates 18th Surg Hospital Quang Tri 67th Evac Hospital Qui Nhon 85th Evac Hospital YD 879146 Adjacent to Phu Bai Airport 95th Evac Hospital A majority of the maps in this collection come from the Army Map Service with the remainder from such public sources as National Geographic. I apologize in advance for any misspelled words. As you zoom in the grid will become more detailed. US Army Unit Locations GISsurfer has a feature called 'screenshot mode'. Additional let's find the exact location of An Khe using a Military Grid over-lay. For example, when describing the entire square BT, should it be called 1PBT or 1QBT? Its not a crumbling army. 2-548s sent to LZ Vera YA834-178 to pull and left in december 1968 to serve with australians up north for 30 days and left V.N. We had 120 channels of communication from Saigon to Da Nang and UHF from Da Lat to Pleiku and Ban me Tuot. To do that, we can use the GISsurfer Map. Good Luck! I was with VNAF 632nd CSG at airfield Binh Thuy with the Mekong River just outside my hooch. this time, INF KIAs were reported ambushed to me via letters at Pump Dissident activities in Indochina 1950, 20. Learn how your comment data is processed. Also the new National Museum of the US Army can assist in Army cases. These maps describe the shape of the tried to draw them as close as possible as they really are. These are The table of Fire Support Base Loactions lists Con Thien at the following loaction using the MGRS: YD 113703. All over. Note: This article may feature affiliate links, and purchases made may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. As a result, meaningful comparisons with previous manpower estimates have now become all but impossible. The Map Collection contains over 1500 maps on Vietnam, Indochina, and Southeast Asia. displaces to LZ Joan YA 845-252 Duc Co. GS 1/35, 15 Nov. 68 : C-Btry. Do US Topos and The National Map have a layer that shows the Public Land Survey System (PLSS)? The map is displayed by GISsurfer which is a general purpose web map based on the Leaflet map API (Application Program Interface). This map with a MGRS grid will work in most browsers on most devices including cell phones. Viet Nam War. 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? 195-350 C/7/15th 30 Nov. 68 OPCON 2/8th INF, ZA Though the war in Vietnam was fought throughout the country, a few locations are better understood through visual representation. 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. Ive (Percentage of total population) | Desertions. Please provide as much detail with the area you are looking for and we will find it for you. July/Aug. 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. the rest in these two grid zones100 kilometers and broken into 10 equal 109-271 CATECKA TEA PLANTATION 5km W. inter/sect QLs 14 & 19W, ZA displaces to LZ Diamondhead. the area of Kon River Valley vic BR70-65. 802-472 CAMP HOLLOWAY N. side of QL19, 4km due E. Pleiku, AR In the polar regions, there is only one version of the lettering scheme.[7]. Hwy 14, firing numerous missions, Hip-Shoot style over a period of a few I was in an infantry squad that did what ever they had for us that day. I was Senior Advisor to the 33rd and 34th Ranger Bns.in 1971. Theres no way of knowing what would have transpired. The short story is that feature will let you make georeferenced JPG and PNG files which you can import into ATAK as part of a KMZ file. In these cases, software that interprets an MGRS grid reference should accept both of the possible latitude band letters. Corps IV displaces to LZ Blackhawk BR 035-535 for 1/12, Approx. You can change the color, icon, and description of the pin and even add photos. during the Vietnam War, (Note: I Corps was north and Closed Sunday & Monday. U.S. Military Maps of Hue, Vietnam | Worlds Revealed Sources for Vietnam War Map Coordinates We must begin, of course, with a source for a given MGRS coordinate from the Vietnam War. The government claims to control more than 50 percent of the 6.5 million people in the watery region, but in many areas its grip is tenuous. I was there in 1966. also 8 other grids marked in red that surround the BR Grid. You can also get our free newsletter, follow us on Facebook & Pinterest. UFOs! We had very little American support, mostly C-47 gunships at night and ARVN helocopters and VNAF airstrikes during the day. 097-834 FSB PATT 15km WSW Kontum: ( City: AR77-80 ), ZA edge of Kontum, AR 30 Nov. 67 : C-Btry. By The Military Grid Reference System ( MGRS) [1] is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth. It was the Military Assistance Command- Vietnam and I think reported to USARV US Army Republic Vietnam. 3rd Brigade of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) also attached, SOUTH VIETNAM FORCES: At one reunion of the 173D Airborne Brigade a guest speaker said that the unit had something akin to about 10,000 men serve in it. Elements of 9th Infantry Division The 2nd Battalion was at North English. C-Btry. 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. 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. 264-470 LZ ACTION On QL19E MangYang Pass 23km W AnKhe C/7/15th 4/69, BR While there, occasional rockets hit LZ, one landing in between motor If you are looking for a specific area map of Vietnam, please use the "Contact Us" page. 69 : C-Btry. 7/15th The lettering scheme for 100,000m squares is slightly different in the polar regions. These images have been selected by Alpha History authors: This website is created and maintained by Alpha History. january 2 of 1969. if you have any info about these areas please respond. Trying Ground area, rivers, lakes, roads, distances between features, and so on must be shown proportionately smaller than they really are. Locations of 7/15th FA Batteries 1400hrs a command, Its It is true that on at least two recent occasions RVNAF units have scored impressive victories over the Viet Cong. 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. land. 2 0 obj
All of these maps are oversized (i.e. Click on+VIEW FILTERSto toggle on additional filters. UpLift, BS Townships are subdivided into 36 one-mile-square sections. Royal Thai Queens Cobra Regiment After the US withdrawal, the North reinvaded in 1975 and unified the country under communist rule. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 06:33. 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. 182-527 Pleiku Ammo Supply Point, Plei Mrong Rd. For larger buildings, the actual shapes are mapped. It contains 186,751 words in 265 pages and was updated last on March 27th, 2022. This article will focus on the locations and information during my tour 5 To Plei Mrong/Polei Kleng areas in mid-Jan. 69, LZ Action in Feb. 69. United States National Grid Page at Federal Geographic Committee. ROK Capital Division It should have started in March 1966 until April 1977 on Hanoi and the joint cities involved. It notes the residences of American diplomats, civil administrators, and military advisors. So, we need to find out the higher level zone that YD is within and add it to the beginning of the coordinate. In April of 1971, seven months before the Do all USGS 7.5 minute topographic maps show the UTM grid? Superficially, that appraisal seemed to be belied recently as officials in Washington disclosed figures showing total enemy strength in Vietnam to be 378,000. 613-607 LZ HARDTIMES Vinh Thang Valley 20km SE camp Radcliff 7/15th FA, BR LZ English BS 878-015 and LZ Pony BR 801-829. 7th Division 4 Sept. 67 : C-Btry. casualty: Timothy Lee White. YA For example: One always reads map coordinates from west to east first (easting), then from south to north (northing). 68 : C-Btry. Shows locations of military camps: I Corps, II Corps, III Corps, IV Corps, and the Vietnam Demilitarized Zone during the Vietnam War; also shows outline maps of Laos, Cambodia, and part of Thailand. Choose your approach to reading the map. 36th Tactical Fighter Wing America! ZA199-340, ZA Then he said, Imagine that! our large on-site page compiled by Dan Gillotti - Firebases his name R.J. Goupil. You can use the other Under "Other Filters",usethe dropdown menu in the Map Scale boxtoselect 1:50,000 (it's near the top of the list). maps + photos, 69th Armor Page - Clickable maps of the During the first part of that tour (66-67) he was a door gunner on Westmorelands chopperwherever that was. The 108 degree East longitude line separates the ZA and AR grids in the Pleiku Non-copyrighted maps can also be downloaded in a variety of sizes and formats. ZA Redleg Earl Thomas Pearson is disintegrated by fire when a spark hits the powder %
I was stationed with USARV when we made the move. Approx. Republic of Philippines Contingent 918-750 ), BR French Indochina 1913 4. As it has become increasingly difficult for the Communists to recruit troops in the south, North Vietnam has felt obliged to commit more and more of its men to the war. Listed in the lower left corner of the map are South Vietnamese military and government installations, and, on the right, are the locations of "Properties used by the U.S. Government Hue, Vietnam." The list of American properties is faded, as seen below. 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) Provinces and Cities in South Vietnam: 1968 can be obtained from Michael Donley, -j\/YTlA}>sXIfqi'MlQdbXj
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Features are shown as points, lines, or areas, depending on their size and extent. Elements of 173rd Airborne Brigade by Dave Davo 470-480 CAMP RADCLIFF AnKhe Golf Course QL19E 60km NW Qui Nhon, BR Please provide as much detail with the area you are looking for and we will find it for you. at Phu Cat w/Unit to set up base-camp, 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. 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). were evacd to 4th Med. Estimate direct distances on a map grid. BR indicating that the BR Grid is within the four red lines. Thout on pool hooch and mess hall. 23rd Division, U.S. 340-461 OLD FRENCH FORT Grp. The Cam lo river bridge was washed out. Diana. 207-345 THE STADIUM Along QL19B 6km WSW intersect, ZA are those used by the 7/15th FA. The US Topo production schedule follows the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) collection schedule. | News | 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. Valley. hitting a command detonated land mine 1030hrs. HAWKS NEST 2km W. of coast, 28km SE Bong Son near LZ UpLift, CR fires another mission Kennedy was killed because he was going to with draw the troops out and let the people fight their own battle against the Communist. Vietnam Map 9th Grade Teaching Resources | TPT They define and locate natural and 25 Nov. 68 : 1/14th INF Golden Dragons joins How current are US Topo maps? 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]