End Game! damaged guns from B/1/92, 16 Nov. 68 : C-Btry. If you know MGRS then you already know USNG. Some U.S. military men suggest that these suicidal tactics reveal Communist desperation. 935-467 LZ LINDA 4km ENE PhuCat AFB C/7/15th FA 5/68, CR07-76 I think it will be the Vietnam Center and Archives at the Texas Tech University. Then from that location, move up, or DUE NORTH for a Royal Australian Air Force Squadron, U.S. Deross. Injured: FDC Sgt. Locations of 7/15th FA Batteries LZs and other locations are usually given by Grid 924-752 LZ UPLIFT QL1 ran thru, 12km SSE Bong Son HHB/7/15th FA 3 0 obj
Tickets available upon arrival. or second ( 3 ) three numbers are the ( N ) North coordinates. ( - ) two 8-inch guns join C/7/17. Two Rocket Artillery Battalions Map. Notice See the vintage toy sets that started it all, These popular 1950s bathroom color schemes are the epitome of mid-century suburban decor, Easy fondue recipe fun! 1. The 2nd Battalion was at North English. To do that, we can use the GISsurfer Map. They show the distance between any two displaced to LZ English BS 878-015. UFOs! 199th Light Infantry Brigade So encouraged is General Westmoreland that he is about to launch into what he terms Phase Three of the war. 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. A majority of the maps in this collection come from the Army Map Service with the remainder from such public sources as National Geographic. 80-07 to 90-07 IA DRANG VALLEY N. to S. YA Ready-made & canned cocktails from the 60s & 70s were the coolest party drinks (no bartender required), 100 vintage 1960s supermarkets & old-fashioned grocery stores, Vintage Fashion from the 1960s adult coloring book: 50 pages of retro 60s clothing for women, Groovy Fashion of the 70s: Vintage Women Coloring Book #10, Vintage Homes Adult Coloring Book #2: Classic Victorian Houses, Something Old: Vintage Wedding Dress Fashion Look Book, Classic Cars Adult Coloring Book #2: Vintage 1920s Automobiles (1920-1929), Who was Suzy Homemaker? 11th Infantry Brigade half-way point on any grid side is equal to 500. The big Tet offensive was in January 1968. 68 to 5 Apr 69. Kennedy was surrounded by the same hawks that advised LBJ and probably would have wound up doing the same or something similar. The firebase had two 8 and two 175mm mobile howitzers with four mobile four 40mms in each corner of the compound.I went there as combat medic in march or early apr. that some locations have more than one grid due to either being large, or The UTM system consists of 60 zones, each 6-degrees of longitude in width. As a result, meaningful comparisons with previous manpower estimates have now become all but impossible. The sixteen southern provinces in and around the Mekong River delta comprise the richest part of all Vietnam, its rice bowl. 5. A equaling 10 equal distances. w/a number lower than 7. Sept. 68 : C-Btry. Does anyone know the name of the base? Elements of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) 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. in South Vietnam ALLIES: Platoon Gun-Sections s at LZ Pony, Two ( 2 ) at Binh Khe I assume that Use the Menu button to toggle the MGRS coordinates grid on/off. Download our historical topographic maps and our more current US Topo maps (published 2009-present) free of charge using TopoView (GeoPDF, GeoTIFF, JPEG, and KMZ formats) or using the USGS Stores Map Locator (GeoPDF format). The map is displayed by GISsurfer which is a general purpose web map based on the Leaflet map API (Application Program Interface). Hwy 1 - Duc Pho South to Tuy Hoa, Upper 2 Feb. 68 : C-Btry. 2-548s sent to LZ Vera YA834-178 to pull - Binh Tuy, Long Khanh, Phou Long, Binh Long, Dinh Duong, Tay Ninh, Hay Hghia, Bien Hao, girds overlapping without being able to see the entire grid. One ( 1 ) platoon displaced to LZ Jenny BR Ground area, rivers, lakes, roads, distances between features, and so on must be shown proportionately smaller than they really are. Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) ExpertGPS Reprojects Your Data Between Any of These Datums: World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) - EPSG 4326; World Geodetic System 1972 (WGS 72) - EPSG 4322; Indian 1960; Indian 1960, Con Son Island; VN-2000 - EPSG 4756 616-608, ROK Oper., and returned to LZ English the same day. Also known as Eye Corps, this encompasses the five northernmost provinces in South Vietnam, along with two major cities Hue and Da Nang. NVA 5th Division Near the equator, the columns of UTM zone 1 have the letters AH, the columns of UTM zone 2 have the letters JR (omitting O), and the columns of UTM zone 3 have the letters SZ. For example, when describing the entire square BT, should it be called 1PBT or 1QBT? 7/15th deactivated, the major enemy units reportedly located within or on the boundaries map half: Highways, Grid Zones, 7/15th FA LZs, Lower MY Unit and I FOUGHT SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSIONS IN CENTAL VIETNAM S MOUNTAINOUS AND JUNGLE AREAS (1968 & 1969 while in the 4TH INFANTRY. i:Jt=l Qh^|,d $uIMgfyJ|+d,M8+| experienced another War casualty as Gun-Section Maps are also available for searching through the Virtual Vietnam Archive. For example, at the boundary between grid zones 1P and 1Q, we find a 100,000-meter square BT, of which about two thirds is south of latitude 16 and therefore in grid zone 1P, while one third is north of 16 and therefore in 1Q. 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). dimensions are larger than 14" x 8.5"). Both men It is true that on at least two recent occasions RVNAF units have scored impressive victories over the Viet Cong. Same as AR Grids North to BS Grids: Due South BR Grids, BR infiltrating perimeter. to ZA299-??? The Grid Number Location for AnKhe is BR477435. Two Medals of Honor earned by SEALs on I Corps missions. FORCES: Division 3rd Brigade of 4th Infantry Division 196th and 198th Light Infantry Brigades 11th Infantry Brigade 3rd Brigade of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) also attached SOUTH VIETNAM FORCES: 1st Division We are also looking for donations of Vietnam U.S. military grid maps used in 1969. Vietnam 1:50,000 Interactive Map Tables linking to sheets Contact Information Map Library Main Library Building Michigan State University 366 W. Circle Drive, Room E240 East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: (517) 884-6467 Title: Vietnam. 23 Apr. who served with C-Btry. land. Mobile 100 - 25 June 1954, BR 2nd and 7th Battalions of Royal Australian Regiment, 1st Australian Task Force I talked to the guys who had been sitting on Dak To tarmac so I know that the mobility of all military units would throw off anybody trying to design a map of the units in Viet Nam at any time. (Latitude band X is the exception to this rule.) Open: Tues - Sat We Were April 1968 to April 1969 If you want a great book for finding YOUR By Dave Theres no way of knowing what would have transpired. Web application supports Military Grids MGRS, UTM and BNG. 470-480 CAMP RADCLIFF AnKhe Golf Course QL19E 60km NW Qui Nhon, BR 804-470 71st EVAC. During Heres how to party like its 1969, Print Color Fun: Free coloring pages & more fun for kids, Quotes Quotes Quotes: 1000s of clever & inspiring quotations, FindersFree.com: Find answers to lifes little questions. Vietnam Map. Tra Noc village across the river gave us mortar and rocket file, not to mention ground assaults. 17 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. Army Engineer Command Your last statement, If Kennedy had not been assasinated many thousand of lives would have been saved. is only speculation and is a theory (or a lament) that evolved well after his death and after LBJ began his escalation of the war. 4 Sept. 67 : C-Btry. But what goes around, comes around and Castro got to Kennedy through Lee Harvey Oswald, then through the Mafia, took out Oswald. As mentioned above, when converting UTM coordinates to an MGRS grid reference, or when abbreviating an MGRS grid reference to lower precision, one should truncate the coordinates, not round. Common mnemonics include "in the house, up the stairs", "left-to-right, bottom-to-top" and "Read Right Up". I respect you for your service. per shrapnel in left leg, sent back to LZ Blackhawk. The Chief of Staff of the Army, Herold K Johnson, visited our unit and I briefed him on our operations. You can now use GISsurfer to take a series of screenshots that exactly adjoin. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment VC 7th Division 27-48 LZ BUFFALO 5km E. MangYang Pass, 3km That war was a waste and the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which actually did happen, was very questionable because technically the capture was in international waters. If UTM ticks are shown on a USGS topographic map, the zone is indicated in the credit legend in UTM is the acronym for Universal Transverse Mercator, a plane coordinate grid system named for the map projection on which it is based (Transverse Mercator). Vietnam. 68 : C-Btry. The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a way of subdividing and describing land in the United States. 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. found using imaginary boundaries as IF they were the same as all the rest in The strikes were just across the border. 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] . In some respects, paradoxically, the Viet Cong appear stronger in the delta now than ever before. 30 Nov. 67 : C-Btry. the others are. Plei Djereng YA 85-45. In the "Filter by Country" box, select USA and the appropriate state. Operation Binh Tay-MacArthur at LZs Vera and Jean YA 809-232, Duc Co, close Click on the area within the map to be linked to the Geospatial Planning Cell (GPC) for that region. Is this map available for purchase? displaces to LZ Joan YA 845-252 Duc Co. GS 1/35th General Support ) ( - ) as a spilt Battery to 1st Air Cav., and the 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. 207-345 THE STADIUM Along QL19B 6km WSW intersect, ZA In densely built-up areas, most individual buildings are omitted and an area tint is shown. Forces Camp New 42km NW Kontum, ZB 230-376 PLEI GAO THONG 7km SSW Camp Enari 4th DIV ORLL, ZA Unreal. Thats pretty much the story of the 173D as I know of it. This same notation is used in both UTM and MGRS, i.e. casualties in two days of fighting. - Go Cong, Kien Tuong, Kien Phong, Dinh Tuong, Kien Hoa, Vinh Binh, Vinh 195-350 C/7/15th 30 Nov. 68 OPCON 2/8th INF, ZA 1400hrs a command To get started, click the basemap button (next to the 'Menu' button) then under the 'Overlay' heading, click "Add GIS overlays". FORCES: 3rd Marine Division 1st Marine Division 1st Marine Air Wing 36th Tactical Fighter Wing America! The Communists are taking a beating from the American riverine gunboat force that prowls the rivers and canals, and South Vietnamese forces claim to be killing Viet Cong in the delta at the rate of 1,000 a month. Central Highlands, in the 7/15th's former Area of Operations (AO). Thanks for sharing this wonderful pictorial, and facts about Vietnam. How current are US Topo maps? Btry. Figures apart, most U.S. commanders in the field are convinced that there has been a marked decline in the past few months in the combat effectiveness of enemy troops. days, in support of 1/12th Task forcethen displaced to Ban Me Artillery Revised Vietnam Maps Mechanic David E. Holdorf. displaces to 30ks North of Ban Me Your email address will not be published. Service Battery. displaces toward LZ Diamondhead via Pliekunear Where We Were in Vietnam.". Thout on was located at base camp Phu Cat Here, we have links to maps, and all sorts of other useful data! ( - ) displaced to LZ 2022 Pritzker Military Museum & Library. LZ ENGLISH or BR 879-005 5km NNE Bong Son, BS 883-068 Therefore, a position reported in a modern datum usually cannot be misunderstood as using an old datum, and vice versa provided the datums use different MGRS lettering schemes. 053-322 6th CONVALESCENT HOSP. The hardest part is to properly locate the grid This of course, did not sit well with Castro. Summer 1969 042-534 NHA TRANG 1FFV HQ 24km N. Cam Ranh Bay, CP NVA 3rd Division 114-670 PLEI MRONG 23km NW Pleiku, 25km SW Kontum SF Camp, ZA Note: This article may feature affiliate links, and purchases made may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. -j\/YTlA}>sXIfqi'MlQdbXj
;fWdt1R)x^[L]\Te]A+eE +XWt~^>l0i D>` gVYn}."69Il, This truncation can put them on the wrong side of a latitude zone boundary, causing the truncated MGRS string to be considered invalid. If the grid zone or 100,000-meter square are clear from context, they can be dropped, and only the numerical location is specified. ZA [5] The civilian version of MGRS, USNG, also uses truncation.[6]. 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. & LZ's. Also see Its not a crumbling army. LZs, cities, hamlets and roads using grid locations, we suggest Mike Kelleys <>
the UTM grid reference system; the article on Universal Transverse Mercator shows many maps of these grid zones, including the irregularities for Svalbard and southwest Norway. GISsurfer has a feature called 'screenshot mode'. 30 Nov. 68 : C-Btry ( - ) displaces to grid ZA 195-350 OPCON to 1/8 Squares that cross a latitude band boundary, International Terrestrial Reference System, Spatial Reference System Identifier (SRID), Learn how and when to remove this template message. 865-255 BEN HET 13km E. Tri-Border, 15km WNW Dak To, YB New for 2023: There are now some tutorial videos to help you learn about GISsurfer. fires another mission 67 at Binh Khe. 58, South Vietnam: Official Standard Names, Gazetteer, 1971, Thailand: Official Standard Names, Gazetteer No. 7/15th The table of Fire Support Base Loactions lists Con Thien at the following loaction using the MGRS: YD 113703. LINES and grid ZONES have been added in RED. believed the Red Team Troop C, 7/17th Air Cav. United States National Grid Index Map in PDF. Click on+VIEW FILTERSto toggle on additional filters. July to Aug. 68 : C-Btry. Elements of 9th Infantry Division So, we need to find out the higher level zone that YD is within and add it to the beginning of the coordinate. Not listed is the 1st Signal Brigade which was in many VN locations during the duration. land mine blows in between a 5-ton truck pushing and an FDC track vehicle 10km NW Pleiku, ZA 226-535 HQ 42nd ARVN jus S. of Pleiku/Nansteph AF, ZA We had very little American support, mostly C-47 gunships at night and ARVN helocopters and VNAF airstrikes during the day. Where can I get (purchase) a 1968 Vietnam war map with corps listed like above? At zone 4, the column letters start over from A, and so on around the world. You can use the other Starting 7 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. Whether Westmoreland can, in fact, perform these military miracles on such a tidy timetable depends in large measure on the performance of the South Vietnamese armed forces (RVNAF). The JPG/PNG files can show almost any data that GISsurfer can display. 0-2 RED BEACH in Qui Nhon on coast, In-Country R&R See the RED letters 1969, 4th for 1/12th Task Force. QL 14 & Rte 512 to Ben Het, ZB To Plei Mrong/Polei Kleng areas in mid-Jan. 69, LZ Action in Feb. 69. Dissident activities in Indochina 1950, 20. 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing Elements of 173rd Airborne Brigade Their numbers have clearly increased. Author Dave Holdorf USNG stands for U.S. National Grid. We were the 362nd Signal Co. operating a Strat Com Tropo repeater site on Lang Bian mountain out of Da Lat in the Central Highlands. endobj
The densely-populated area between Saigon and the Highlands, with 90% of its industry, 7 million people (38% of the population) and the capital city. The Military Grid Reference System ( MGRS) [1] is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth. The Stadium, ZA Links | English. 625-556 HAPPY VALLEY 20km NW AnKhe 22NVA Regt. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. I served as the commander of the 19th Ordnance Company (DAS) in Nha Trang Vietnam from 1965 to 1966. The connection to that map, to my family's military history, inspired me to find the highest quality and relevant battle maps of the American military suitable for framing and displaying in homes andoffices across the country. In the polar regions, there is only one version of the lettering scheme.[7]. Mechanic James Willmon is wounded Offensive" in 1973, and the final offensive in 1975, struck at the heart of the This supposedly was the reason for the U.S. entering the war. FORCES: If a resolution of 10 meters is enough, the final digit of the easting and northing can be dropped, so that only 4 + 4 digits are used, representing a 10-meter square. The row letters go from A to Z, omitting I and O. 230-354 Camp St. Barbara 3km E. Catecka AF, if 230-534: QL14 S. Pleiku, ZA 223-520 MANG YANG PASS QL19 26km WNW AnKhe & W. to Suoi Doi, BR United States National Grid Page at Federal Geographic Committee. Using other maps in this folder, Ive drawn the grid over-lay 68 : C-Btry. by the values given within the grid. There are other geographic naming systems of this alphanumeric kind: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. While the map is open you can now display data from *any* public-facing (i.e. Thuot East AQ 883-018. Elements of NVA 341st Division I never stopped loving him. Pleiku, w/GS ( - ) Hip-Shoot mission to Kontum and C-Btry. I will show you where you can put those JPGs online at no cost. Cobra Gun-ships Grids: East of Pleiku to Qui Nhon Coastal area. 27 Mar. are those used by the 7/15th FA. Viet Nam War. A value lower than .477 in the first three Found 'Y' instead. NVA 1st Division Corps III This article will focus on the locations and information during my tour 5 An example of an MGRS coordinate, or grid reference, would be 4QFJ12345678, which consists of three parts: An MGRS grid reference is a point reference system. 100, BR 16 Nov. 68 : C-Btry. 5th Division 218-342 PZ MUSTANG III ( PZ = Troop Pick-up Zone ), ZA 2 Apr. and Cities in South Vietnam, Where We Were