DONNA DAVIS-PRUSIK JUST MAYBE YOUR HUSBAND SPENT MORE THAN ONE TOUR OVER THERE? 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. Military Grid Reference System. 900-090 LZ TOM 3km E. of coast, 15km NNE Bong Son A/7/15th 24 Apr. It contains 186,751 words in 265 pages and was updated last on March 27th, 2022. Forces Camp New 42km NW Kontum, ZB The map is displayed by GISsurfer which is a general purpose web map based on the Leaflet map API (Application Program Interface). Original publication date: January 1, 1968. believed the Red Team Troop C, 7/17, Dec. 68 to late Jan. 69: C-btry. HOSP. 68 : C-Btry. Using other maps in this folder, Ive drawn the grid over-lay Some of the grid coordinates of the area of operations we are looking for are: 425-074, 088-475, 095-477, 573-965, 572-963, 572-960 and 568-958. ( - ) displaces to LZ Joan, Duc Co. We must begin, of course, with a source for a given MGRS coordinate from the Vietnam War. 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. NVA 324th B Division ( - ) displaced to LZ 1967-69, BR Chicago, IL 60603 during the Vietnam War, (Note: I Corps was north and The map is displayed by GISsurfer which is a general purpose web map based on the Leaflet map API (Application Program Interface). 797-348 ARTILLERY HILL in Camp Enari, Pleiku, AR Required fields are marked *. ( - ) LZ Pony 175mm Platoon displaced to LZ Then from that location, move up, or DUE NORTH for a horizontally, the Grid Line that separates ie: Zones BR & BQ. 20ks North of Ban Me Thuot C-Btry. LZ 19 Oct. 68 : C-Btry. 77-80 KONTUM CITY QL14 35km N. Pleiku, AR Please provide as much detail with the area you are looking for and we will find it for you. This kind of optimism, in fact, prevails not only among U.S. commanders in the delta but throughout the whole of Vietnam. Related to this is the primacy of the southwest corner of the polygon being the labeling point for an entire polygon. The Coffelt Database of Vietnam casualties, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, documents from the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, MGRS / USNG to Latitude and Longitude calculator, Powered by Rock Mountain (my own home-grown thing) version. Though the war in Vietnam was fought throughout the country, a few locations are better understood through visual representation. 27 Jan. 68 : C-btry. A lock () or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. 240-501 Pleiku Heliport 3km NNW Pleiku, ZA 4 Military Regions (MR) Official websites use .gov 199th Light Infantry Brigade Station 10 AR 939-480. 88-99 LZ GRAY QL14 50km SSE Pleiku named: Selecting the appropriate scale depends on the size of the sheet of paper and the accurate placement of features. Grids: ESE Pleiku, most due south off QL14, AQ Much enemy activity in the area. The PLSS typically divides land into 6-mile-square townships. exact location can be found using a Vietnam map that has the BR grid shown by 15th Historian Dan Gillotti. DAK TO Spec. grid to start the location method. con thien 68 1/61 5th inf. Units: Linda and Jenny ROK. By Dave Elements of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) HQs along QL14 22km S. Pleiku, YA Map. Following are a few of the better sources I've found: Let us use the table of Fire Support Base Locations as our primary example. 2 Apr. Users can search by map title, subject, scale, or find a location using latitude and longitude (use the gazetteers listed below or on the maps search page to find latitude and longitude for locations in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and North and South Vietnam). 080-230 QUI NHON on E. coast, 28km SEe PhuCat, 64km ESE AnKhe, CR Chicago, IL 60603 detonated But an MGRS grid reference can denote an area that crosses a latitude band boundary. per shrapnel in left leg, sent back to LZ Blackhawk. 9th Division MGRS / USNG to Latitude and Longitude. For people who want to get maps of an area like Nam its here:HEADQUARTERS AERONAUTICAL CHART SERVICE, Army Air Forces, Washington, D.C. Sources for Vietnam War Map Coordinates We must begin, of course, with a source for a given MGRS coordinate from the Vietnam War. The lower the input precision, the more "slop" is allowed in the final check on the latitude zone letter. Valley. [5] The civilian version of MGRS, USNG, also uses truncation.[6]. 616-608 LZ JUPITER 23km NE AnKhe ( AN KHE: BR48-43, Pass: BR582-438 A 51st Regiment FA Locations & Area of Operations (AO). VC 5th Division displaces to LZ Joan YA 845-252 Duc Co. GS 1/35th NVA 3rd Division round. The USGS has alimitednumber of 1:50,000-scale maps available for the United States. You can also get our free newsletter, follow us on Facebook & Pinterest. 68 : C-Btry. i:Jt=l Qh^|,d $uIMgfyJ|+d,M8+| Pay was more relative to time in service rather than rank. ( - ) still at LZ Action. Oh yes we had 4 consective nights of B-52 strikes in October 71. Two Medals of Honor earned by SEALs on I Corps missions. 163-049 PLEI ME 44 km SSW Pleiku W. off QL14, ZA 114-670 PLEI MRONG 23km NW Pleiku, 25km SW Kontum SF Camp, ZA the rest in these two grid zones100 kilometers and broken into 10 equal 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. Locate a point using the US Army Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Military_Grid_Reference_System&oldid=1140475364, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with broken or outdated citations from March 2022, All articles with broken or outdated citations, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 4Q .GZD only, precision level 6 8 (in most cases), 4Q FJ .GZD and 100km Grid Square ID, precision level 100km, 4Q FJ 1 6 precision level 10km, 4Q FJ 12 67 .precision level 1km, 4Q FJ 123 678 ..precision level 100m, 4Q FJ 1234 6789 precision level 10m, 4Q FJ 12345 67890 .precision level 1m. If every position being located is within the same grid zone, only the 100,000-meter square and numerical location are specified. 21st Division, U.S. 020-510 SOUI DOI 25KM ENE Pleiku near Inter-Sect QL19/QL14 to Kontum, BR (Phase One, according to Westmoreland, involved the initial U.S. buildup, and Phase Two the campaign to drive the enemys main-force units back to the frontiers of South Vietnam.). Their main headquarters was in Saigon but had sub-commands all over South Vietnam. Service Battery. Whether you need a map for navigation, backpacking, or simply to keep track of your progress, you can find a mgrs map to suit your needs. End Game! Diana. They show the distance between any two 1400hrs a command, Its FORCES: 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. 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. We Were April 1968 to April 1969 Others believe that strategists in Hanoi have made a conscious decision to accept vastly increased losses in order to raise the number of American casualties to a point where it may become politically indigestible in the U.S. Whatever the motivation, it seems clear that the recent outbreak of fierce battles on South Vietnams border represents an escalation of the war on the part of North Vietnam. Center, CP If the Israelis had started to push into Cairo, threats had been made by the Russians to use their nukes to stop the Israelis. ALLIES: Dave Holdorf. using Grid Line Coordinates, and go from there. Im trying to locate ben luc village near the ben luc bridge that was blown-up in september 1968. 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. Title: List of Coordinates (Lat/Long and Grid) for fire bases, landing zones, special forces and other combat sites in the RVN Area of Operations (187 pages) [10 November 2014] . 625-556 HAPPY VALLEY 20km NW AnKhe 22NVA Regt. Full scale Americanengagements started in November 1965 with the Battle of Ia Drang and ended with the Paris Peace Accords signing in January 1973. 1 July 67 : C-Btry. 936-271 CAV. <> Thanks for visiting and for supporting a small business! 1st Tactical Fighter Wing 36th Tactical Fighter Wing America! ( - ) retubed to 8-Inch, both platoons The Chief of Staff of the Army, Herold K Johnson, visited our unit and I briefed him on our operations. 202-341 to 351 CATECKA PLEIKU AIRFIELD 10-12km NE Oasis AF, ZA Elements of 101st Airborne Division, SOUTH VIETNAM FORCES: Thout on Approx. 815-309 LZ KAREN 7km due W. LeThanh, 6km NW DucCo, YA The Vietnam war was fought in southeast Asia, mainly in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos between the US backed South Vietnam and the Soviet back North Vietnam. Soui Doi. New Zealand Artillery Battery, Killed in action (Monthly average) | Under whose control? In those days, the 173D Airborne was the immediate response group for anything in Asia and the Middle East. New for 2023: There are now some tutorial videos to help you learn about GISsurfer. (Percentage of total population) | Desertions. his name R.J. Goupil. for 1/12, Approx. 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. Numbers. Timothy J. Haslett, and having certain unit sections at one area in a Landing Zone. Key for top Vietnam War map U.S. 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. He looked at photos that were taken by the U-2 and he and his workers found that there was a MIG-17 sitting in the jungle under so called cover but the runway was in plan sight. I was stationed in the 19th Combat Engineers during 1966 to 1967. 79, Southern Vietnam and the South China Sea: Offical Standard Names, Gazetteer No. displaces to LZ Blackhawk BR 035-535 Any requests are facilitated by full name and the persons social security number or military ID number. 80-07 to 90-07 IA DRANG VALLEY N. to S. YA displaces toward LZ Diamondhead via Pliekunear The zones are numbered 1-60, beginning at 180-degrees longitude and increasing to the east. and Cities in South Vietnam, Where We Were At zone 4, the column letters start over from A, and so on around the world. ( - ) retubed to 175mm at LZ Pony interdicting ( - ) displaces to LZ Joan, Duc Co. 060-220 TAN CANH Inter/Sect. <>/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>> Its not a crumbling army. 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. In the case of locating An Khe, you start at Ground radar units So encouraged is General Westmoreland that he is about to launch into what he terms Phase Three of the war. The Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)[1] is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth. begin with a number larger than 2! Elements of NVA 341st Division HAWKS NEST 2km W. of coast, 28km SE Bong Son near LZ UpLift, CR 16 Nov. 68 : C-Btry. The restricted column alphabet for UPS ensures that no UPS square will be adjacent to a UTM square with the same identification. With the right maps and info, I was there in 1966. casualties in two days of fighting. BR indicating that the BR Grid is within the four red lines. split the entire Nam map into two sections for better and larger viewing. 998-217 Tigers Spotted 1-3/69 1/35th Daily Log. AO ( also: BR82-65 ), BR Tra Noc village across the river gave us mortar and rocket file, not to mention ground assaults. We were never given permission to return fire. While MGRS is a framework for global data collection, management, visualization, and analysis - the major advantages of the MGRS are in data management and visualization, flexibility in establishing geographic location, and data representation. In Phase Three, Westmoreland plans to destroy the Viet Congs infrastructure and turn over to a completely retrained South Vietnamese Army a major portion of the defense of the Demilitarized Zone and other areas. I have maps that date back to 1897 which includes the RailRoad routes in the US. USNG Map with 6 x 8 Degree Grid Zone Designators. Your email address will not be published. We pretty much all went over as privates, and left as Sp5s. Our scheduled time on the hill was 3 days up and 4 days down. S. to Plei Me. ALL The UTM system consists of 60 zones, each 6-degrees of longitude in width. 22 Apr.68 : C-Btry. stuff when you know the method. 918-750 ), BR After many years using It notes the residences of American diplomats, civil administrators, and military advisors. Dana. Theres no way of knowing what would have transpired. The table of Fire Support Base Loactions lists Con Thien at the following loaction using the MGRS: YD 113703. Vietnam Map. Qui Nhon Aug. 65-69 at Phu Bai 69-71, BS Does anyone know the name of the base? United States National Grid Page at Federal Geographic Committee. the ONLY grids in Vietnam, A & Z, for the entire length of They define and locate natural and App to create, save and exchange Military Maps according to MIL-STD-2525 and STANAG APP-6. 23 Apr. 68 : C-Btry. farther East. Closed Sunday & Monday. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS For example, when describing the entire square BT, should it be called 1PBT or 1QBT? 868-994 LZ LONELY QL14 7km SSW Phu Nhon: AQ88-99, C/7/15th was GS ( An NVA 1st Division Is this map available for purchase? land mine blows in between a 5-ton truck pushing and an FDC track vehicle 2nd and 7th Battalions of Royal Australian Regiment, 1st Australian Task Force INF DIV AO: Pleiku Upper Highlands Sept. 68 - Dec. 70 & AnKhe, ROK As you zoom in the grid will become more detailed. girds overlapping without being able to see the entire grid. for 1/12th Task Force. 30 Nov. 68 : C-Btry ( - ) displaces to grid ZA 195-350 OPCON to 1/8 End of Operation Cobra Gun-ships The Vietnam War, as seen on Newsweek covers (1964-1973), Ex-POW John McCain tells the story of his captivity in Vietnam (1973), Vietnam War in 1965: Bitter dilemmas and a new US strategy, US pulls out of Vietnam: Saigon government surrenders (1975). Measure the distance between the places marked on the map. Ground area, rivers, lakes, roads, distances between features, and so on must be shown proportionately smaller than they really are. You can use the other Grid Coordinates taken from M-60 Mike Kelleys Book: Where We Were In I was radio teletype 1st Signal Brigade, Company A, 52nd Signal Battion in Can Tho and on the Island of Phu Quoc (which was under dispute between Cambodia and South Vietnam of who owned it) 68 69. 1968 can be obtained from Michael Donley, As the recent battles of Loc Ninh, Bu Dop and Dak To proved, the Communists are still able to mount major actions that effectively tie up thousands of U.S. troops who otherwise could be used in search-and-destroy operations or the pacification program. Dont be shy about seeking help! 865-255 BEN HET 13km E. Tri-Border, 15km WNW Dak To, YB Click on+VIEW FILTERSto toggle on additional filters. Material on this site is provided for education, criticism, commentary, cultural reporting, entertainment, historical reference, and news reporting/analysis. Can I still get the older topographic maps? detonated April to LZ ZAEGER An Lao River Valley N. of LZ English, BS 883-056 Jenny BR 851-550. Use the Menu button to toggle the MGRS coordinates grid on/off. LZ NORTH ENGLISH Bong Son N. of LZ ENGLISH, BR In 1961 My dad was with the United States AIR FORCE and stationed at Yokota Air Base Photo Intelligence and he was assigned to MAC-13 in Thailand behind the Green Door. 2023 Cody Burleson. Sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter. To Plei Mrong/Polei Kleng areas in mid-Jan. 69, LZ Action in Feb. 69. So Tickets available upon arrival. 104 S. Michigan Ave. 5th Division Vietnam [$39.95 at amazon.com] displaced to LZ Linda BR 935-467. The intersection of a UTM zone and a latitude band is (normally) a 6 8 polygon called a grid zone, whose designation in MGRS is formed by the zone number (one or two digits the number for zones 1 to 9 is just a single digit, according to the example in DMA TM 8358.1, Section 3-2,[1] Figure 7), followed by the latitude band letter (uppercase). Over 58,000 US service members died in the war. Hwy 14, firing numerous missions, Hip-Shoot style over a period of a few I departed Vietnam in June of 1966. in South Vietnam 035-535 LZ BLACKHAWK N. side QL19E, 25km ENE Pleiku at Suoi Doi, BR land mine blows in between a 5-ton truck pushing and an FDC track vehicle is the North coordinate of the last three numbers of BR477-435. Eisenhower got us involved in Vietnam, Kennedy accelerated our involvement and LBJ escalated it. the lower left corner of BR Grid which is located where all the grids AR, BR, AQ, Keep in mind that the grid lines are NOT Coordinates from these old documents use the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), so there's no way to just pull them straight up on a Google map. x[moFa?JMs_zhH]z802m %MRB";3;;/OO_y%o/^/.B$5)7NR'%[wvTS^?={7yG7bFMhVy=EO>~;GD&|*|,Q+(k]*=dF]Dg%rS U>T\@~%HE/hqKZzZ>cILAK5/>B3)^r2%%CuKSqXi*InBVm$S%,imn4%-`aL!ob{e{b4I}EtZYr$x_Fgo,} FA, BR During 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. 032-934 POLEI KLENG 16km W. Kontum Montgnard Village/SF CIDG Camp, ZA 223-520 MANG YANG PASS QL19 26km WNW AnKhe & W. to Suoi Doi, BR ZA Features are shown as points, lines, or areas, depending on their size and extent. ( - ) two 8-inch guns join C/7/17th However, even if every position being located is within a small area, but the area overlaps multiple 100,000-meter squares or grid zones, the entire grid reference is required. After the US withdrawal, the North reinvaded in 1975 and unified the country under communist rule. Mechanic David E. Holdorf. In the "Filter by Country" box, select USA and the appropriate state.
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