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Surface. ft. m. 3,600. 1,097. asphalt. Landing Zone English (also known as English Airfield, LZ Dog, LZ English or simply Bong Son) is a former U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base in Bồng Sơn, Bình Định Province, Vietnam .
Landing Zone s during the U.S.-involvement in the Vietnam War include: Landing Zone Albany, Central Highlands; involved in the Battle of Ia Drang. Landing Zone Baldy, Quảng Nam Province. Landing Zone Brace, Central Highlands. Landing Zone Brillo Pad, Central Highlands. Landing Zone Center, Quảng Tín Province; involved in the Battle of ...
Chu Lai. Coordinates: 15.412275°N 108.704478°E. Ontos on Chu Lai beach search for a defensive position shortly after descending from the landing crafts aboard the USS Thomaston. June 1965. Navy. Chu Lai is a seaport, urban and industrial area in Núi Thành District, Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam. The city is served by Chu Lai International ...
Landing Zone Baldy (also known as FSB Baldy or Hill 63) was a U.S. Marine Corps, Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base located northwest of Chu Lai, Quảng Nam Province in central Vietnam. History. The base was located at the intersection of Highway 1 and Route 535, approximately 28 km northwest of Chu Lai.
v. t. e. The fall of Saigon [9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the collapse of the South Vietnamese state, leading to a transition period and the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under communist rule ...
A map of South Vietnam showing provincial boundaries and names and military zones: I, II, III, and IV Corps. In 1965, the United States rapidly increased its military forces in South Vietnam, prompted by the realization that the South Vietnamese government was losing the Vietnam War as the communist-dominated Viet Cong (VC) gained influence over much of the population in rural areas of the ...
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other ...
14 November 1992: Vietnam Airlines Flight 474, a Yakovlev Yak-40 (built in 1976), registration VN-A449, originating in Ho Chi Minh City with 31 passengers on board crashed while approaching the Nha Trang Airport in a tropical storm. There were 30 deaths; the only survivor was a Dutch woman, Annette Herfkens. The aircraft was entirely destroyed.