Digging them Out - Battle of Phuong Dinh (2) - Campaign Series Vietnam 1948-1967
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| SM: | 4 |
| Turns: | 40 |
| Type: | Stock |
| First Side: | US |
| Second Side: | N. Vietnam |
Jason Petho
21 March, 1966
[Phoung Dinh Village Complex, Quang Ngai Province, I Corps, South Vietnam]: [SIDE A] [HIS] [CSL]:
A few weeks after Operation Utah, the 1st Viet Cong Regiment and moved south from the Que Son area north of Chu Lai into northern Quang Ngai Province. On the night of March 18th, the VC Regiment overran an ARVN 936th Regional Force Company outpost on Hill 141.
After an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the outpost, Task Force Delta, consisting if the 5th ARVN Airborne Battalion and the U.S. 3rd/7th Marines where landed in the to the west of Hill 141 to retake the position.
The two battalions moved east with the ARVN Battalion on the left and the Marines on the right. One of 3rd/7th Marines Companies was helicopters to the now abandoned outpost, finding 31 bodies of the defenders; the others were missing. The two battalions would continue to advance to the east, attempting to locate the 1st Viet Cong Regiment.
The 5th ARVN Airborne was reinforced with an infantry battalion and APC company from the ARVN 4th Infantry Regiment and the supporting artillery unit at Bing Son received additional batteries.
On the morning of March 21st, Task Force Delta started their advance, with the Marines clearing the Vinh Tuy Valley and the ARVN formation advancing towards Route 527. The 2nd/4th Marine Battalion was left at Chu Lai as the Task Force reserve.
Little contact was made until the Marines became held up at Thach An Noi (1) by a Viet Cong force entrenched in the fortified village. The ARVN Task Force seemed to have had the same luck as they stumbled into another fortified village at Khanh My (3).
The 2nd/4th Marines were called into action and performed an airmobile assault into a hot LZ near the village of Phuong Dinh (2).
As the 3rd/7th Marines and 5th ARVN Airborne Battalions had already realized, regardless of how much heavy ordnance and airstrikes are poured onto the fortified villages, only close quarter infantry action will dig out the determined Viet Cong from their positions.
[ALL, NO VV] [CSEE, Variable Objectives] [1.00]
21 March, 1966
[Phoung Dinh Village Complex, Quang Ngai Province, I Corps, South Vietnam]: [SIDE A] [HIS] [CSL]:
A few weeks after Operation Utah, the 1st Viet Cong Regiment and moved south from the Que Son area north of Chu Lai into northern Quang Ngai Province. On the night of March 18th, the VC Regiment overran an ARVN 936th Regional Force Company outpost on Hill 141.
After an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the outpost, Task Force Delta, consisting if the 5th ARVN Airborne Battalion and the U.S. 3rd/7th Marines where landed in the to the west of Hill 141 to retake the position.
The two battalions moved east with the ARVN Battalion on the left and the Marines on the right. One of 3rd/7th Marines Companies was helicopters to the now abandoned outpost, finding 31 bodies of the defenders; the others were missing. The two battalions would continue to advance to the east, attempting to locate the 1st Viet Cong Regiment.
The 5th ARVN Airborne was reinforced with an infantry battalion and APC company from the ARVN 4th Infantry Regiment and the supporting artillery unit at Bing Son received additional batteries.
On the morning of March 21st, Task Force Delta started their advance, with the Marines clearing the Vinh Tuy Valley and the ARVN formation advancing towards Route 527. The 2nd/4th Marine Battalion was left at Chu Lai as the Task Force reserve.
Little contact was made until the Marines became held up at Thach An Noi (1) by a Viet Cong force entrenched in the fortified village. The ARVN Task Force seemed to have had the same luck as they stumbled into another fortified village at Khanh My (3).
The 2nd/4th Marines were called into action and performed an airmobile assault into a hot LZ near the village of Phuong Dinh (2).
As the 3rd/7th Marines and 5th ARVN Airborne Battalions had already realized, regardless of how much heavy ordnance and airstrikes are poured onto the fortified villages, only close quarter infantry action will dig out the determined Viet Cong from their positions.
[ALL, NO VV] [CSEE, Variable Objectives] [1.00]
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