A Tale of Two Hills - Battle of Hill 65 and Gang Toi - Campaign Series Vietnam 1948-1967
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| Rating: | 4.5 (2) |
| Games Played: | 1 |
| SM: | 3 |
| Turns: | 20 |
| Type: | Stock |
| First Side: | US |
| Second Side: | N. Vietnam |
Jason Petho
8 November, 1965
[Gang Toi Hills, Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam]:
[SIDE A H2H] [HIS] [CSL]:
By the fall of 1965, the junction of the Song Be and Song Dong Nai rivers had become a major communist staging area for men, equipment, and supplies for Viet Cong units based around Saigon in War Zones C and D and in the Mekong Delta.
Westmoreland planned to use the US 173rd Airborne Brigade to keep the Viet Cong off balance and to target their base areas, and consequently a search-and-destroy operation codenamed "Operation Hump" was planned, named after the half-way point in the twelve-month tour of duty of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade.
The operations plan envisioned the 1st Royal Australian Regiment and 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne being inserted by helicopter during an airmobile operation into War Zone D, in an area about 20 kilometres northeast of the US airbase at Bien Hoa.
The 1st RAR would be operating to the south of Song Dong Nai, while the US 1/503rd Battalion would conduct a helicopter assault onto a Landing Zone northwest of the Song Dong Nai. Both of these battalions were being supported by the 3rd/319th Artillery Battalion, including the 161st New Zealand Artillery Battery, from Fire Support Base ACE.
Both battalions were tasked with a search and destroy missions of any bases and caches in their respective areas with the hopes of catching elements of the VC 274th Regiment that were suspected to be in the area.
The first couple days of the operation seemed to reveal little except for a few exchanges of fire and a handful of abandoned or booby-trapped base camps and supply caches.
November 8th started out much the same but would be the last day of the operations. The US 1st/503rd Battalion was tasked with sweeping the area west of Hill 65 based on intelligence and possible sightings of Viet Cong moving in the area as the companies of 1st RAR would clear the area around the Gang Toi hills.
By the end of the day, the hunters would become the hunted.
[ALL, NO VV] [CSEE, Variable Objectives] [1.00]
8 November, 1965
[Gang Toi Hills, Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam]:
[SIDE A H2H] [HIS] [CSL]:
By the fall of 1965, the junction of the Song Be and Song Dong Nai rivers had become a major communist staging area for men, equipment, and supplies for Viet Cong units based around Saigon in War Zones C and D and in the Mekong Delta.
Westmoreland planned to use the US 173rd Airborne Brigade to keep the Viet Cong off balance and to target their base areas, and consequently a search-and-destroy operation codenamed "Operation Hump" was planned, named after the half-way point in the twelve-month tour of duty of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade.
The operations plan envisioned the 1st Royal Australian Regiment and 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne being inserted by helicopter during an airmobile operation into War Zone D, in an area about 20 kilometres northeast of the US airbase at Bien Hoa.
The 1st RAR would be operating to the south of Song Dong Nai, while the US 1/503rd Battalion would conduct a helicopter assault onto a Landing Zone northwest of the Song Dong Nai. Both of these battalions were being supported by the 3rd/319th Artillery Battalion, including the 161st New Zealand Artillery Battery, from Fire Support Base ACE.
Both battalions were tasked with a search and destroy missions of any bases and caches in their respective areas with the hopes of catching elements of the VC 274th Regiment that were suspected to be in the area.
The first couple days of the operation seemed to reveal little except for a few exchanges of fire and a handful of abandoned or booby-trapped base camps and supply caches.
November 8th started out much the same but would be the last day of the operations. The US 1st/503rd Battalion was tasked with sweeping the area west of Hill 65 based on intelligence and possible sightings of Viet Cong moving in the area as the companies of 1st RAR would clear the area around the Gang Toi hills.
By the end of the day, the hunters would become the hunted.
[ALL, NO VV] [CSEE, Variable Objectives] [1.00]
| Player Voting Stats | ||
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| Member | Balance | Enjoyment |
 5 Leichte Div |
Totally Pro N. Vietnam | 8 |
 Scud |
Moderately Pro N. Vietnam | 7 |
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5 Leichte Div | vs. | Scud |  |
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N. Vietnam Major Victory | 36 | 6 |
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movement halts for the VC to get some cover.
Of note - the VC small arms firepower was an equivalent to the US/Anzac in the jungle firefights.