Operation Chopper - Battle of Xang Bridge - Campaign Series Vietnam 1948-1967
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| Rating: | 0 (0) |
| Games Played: | 0 |
| SM: | 3 |
| Turns: | 25 |
| Type: | Stock |
| First Side: | S. Vietnam |
| Second Side: | N. Vietnam |
Jason Petho
12 January, 1962
[Xang Bridge, 16 km west of Saigon, South Vietnam]: [SIDE A / H2H] [HIS] [CSL]:
The Viet Cong had been using captured French radios early in the war, the location of which could be triangulated using direction finding equipment. Due to the nature of the terrain and the high levels of humidity, the direction-finding equipment had to be used closer to suspected Viet Cong locations.
In late December, one of these teams attempting to triangulate a Viet Cong headquarters in the pineapple belt west of Saigon, but were ambushed, resulting in an American Killed In Action from the 3rd Radio Research Unit.
A few weeks later, two ARVN parachute battalions were helicopter assaulted using H-21 helicopters from the 57th Transportation Company in search of the Viet Cong unit that conducted the ambush and the elusive radio. This was the first large helicopter assault of the Vietnam War and had caught the Viet Cong disorganized and unprepared.
The opposite side of that coin was it also provided the Viet Cong with valuable combat experience against helicopter operations.
[ALL, NO VV] [CSEE, Variable Objectives] [1.00]
12 January, 1962
[Xang Bridge, 16 km west of Saigon, South Vietnam]: [SIDE A / H2H] [HIS] [CSL]:
The Viet Cong had been using captured French radios early in the war, the location of which could be triangulated using direction finding equipment. Due to the nature of the terrain and the high levels of humidity, the direction-finding equipment had to be used closer to suspected Viet Cong locations.
In late December, one of these teams attempting to triangulate a Viet Cong headquarters in the pineapple belt west of Saigon, but were ambushed, resulting in an American Killed In Action from the 3rd Radio Research Unit.
A few weeks later, two ARVN parachute battalions were helicopter assaulted using H-21 helicopters from the 57th Transportation Company in search of the Viet Cong unit that conducted the ambush and the elusive radio. This was the first large helicopter assault of the Vietnam War and had caught the Viet Cong disorganized and unprepared.
The opposite side of that coin was it also provided the Viet Cong with valuable combat experience against helicopter operations.
[ALL, NO VV] [CSEE, Variable Objectives] [1.00]
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