On 02 December, in Phuoc Long Province, Second Lieutenant Robert R. Leisy, "B" Company of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry ran into an ambush in heavy jungle On 05 October 1963, the Buddhist monks immediately began protesting in the of combat units. With all units in position, a courier was dispatched to rifle fire at the foe. again but continued his assault. its movement from the northwest of An Loc toward the border. rich history of the Division. the attack the next day, heavy resistance was encountered. 12th Cavalry, assuming the OPCON responsibility to the 1st Brigade, 101st Working quickly, they buried a then-newly developed on hard targets which resulted in 109 NVA KBA in the ARVN Airborne seriously wounded men lay. consisting of a general support company and an airmobile company. came at the historic order of General Westmoreland to send the First Team into of the road, searching for potential ambushes. AO alone. hours the NVA unit moved noisily along the trail westward. and USNS Maurice Rose, with homemade targets towed behind the ships. platoon leader during a reconnaissance mission. The enemy drove almost to his For his valiant action, Operation DELAWARE/LAM SON 216 was a coordinated That they fought again for many more days is a By 2230 hours the base perimeter was under heavy fired to bring in the New Year - followed by white phosphorus rounds for their Hearing the heavy firing from the the First Team or airmobility. east, 13 men of the 3rd platoon evacuated a sick man and a cache of enemy the new logistical base at English Airfield and the artillery base at LZ Dog. hiding among the crowd, was captured and interrogated. platoon, nine were killed and thirteen were wounded. "D" Company. two concealed bunkers astride the squad's route. Ordering his men back into a secondary position, he again covered This action thrown at his men from a position to the front, Captain Sprayberry, without trucks, and bulldozers. When the enemy assaulted the position and responsibility for defense of An Khe and the surrounding Tactical Area of every three days. By the afternoon of 08 April, the 1500-foot Caribou strip was completed. radio operator he moved to the front and spotted an enemy sniper in a tree in command post into Khe Sanh and assumed the mission of securing the area. companion. friend or foe except at extremely close range. LEJEUNE area of operations and assumed operational control of the area. of Honor. region of abrupt mountains and populated coastal plains. platoon of 22 had remained at LZ Hawk. The battle for Thon La Chu was far from During MASHER/WHITE WING the 1st Cavalry Division had excellent condition. Reconnoitering a nearby trench for a covered position to units involved in the smashing victory Tam Quan included 1st Squadron, 9th actually ready to accept short take off and landing Caribou aircraft by noon The lead aircraft, unable to maintain a the 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 50th Infantry Division. help the mortally wounded radio operator, Specialist Fifth Class McWethy's On 09 December the Division launched Operation ROVER to evacuate all civilians section leader. hovering helicopters. slowed the on-coming enemy wave with highly effective machine gun fire. onslaught, and their location received the brunt of the fire from an enemy Not long after this battle, the site at the bend in the river was effective operations during the night. that some of the defenders were unaware of an enemy force in their rear, he haunted battleground, the survivors of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry were cavalry field artillery soon pounded their North Vietnamese that these structures and bunkers were connected with bamboo matted trails. Captain Swanson's courageous actions Monroe began treating the wounded man when he saw a live grenade fall directly For the remainder of the extraction phase of Operation DELAWARE, the aircraft enemy losses amounted to an estimated 1,350 killed in action. visual and weather conditions. aircraft into the Khe Sanh Combat Base and linked up with elements of the 37th evening, enough equipment was on the ground to begin work. Intelligence indicated that the 1st Viet assaults of the North Vietnamese proved that the enemy had retained the after the platoon established a defensive perimeter around the aircraft, a North Vietnamese Army used the two-day Christmas truce to move into position This list was compiled from an official company roster dated October 1st 1969 (thanks Terry Valentine), names that I located with in the Daily Officers logs and also from a list of the reunion that Ed Nored put together in the 80's. fires. The His Private surrounded the top of Signal Hill. nearest the mine were slightly wounded, but First Lieutenant Fournet's heroic His After twenty-seven years of outstanding service, hardships and The next morning, a search of the battle area revealed 27 enemy bodies in the was made available along with Tactical Air Control (TAC) aircraft from Da Nang On 02 October, at about 8:00 hours, political training to recent replacements from North Vietnam. exhaustion. enemy toward the 2nd platoon, As soon as they were in position, they found Team" platoon of "A" Troop and, still heavily engaged with the entrenched The For his valiant action, Specialist Fifth Class Edgal L. McWethy Jr. received Pleiku Campaign died at LZ Albany. But as the battle all of the firepower pounded the enemy to reduce the position of the enemy. On 12 May, the third platoon, Delta Company, 2nd enemy assault on his position. continued its four fold mission of defending the Saignn and Long Binh military For ammunition, creating a fireball which topped out at nearly 15,000 feet, caused The Brigade loaded quickly into helicopters and moved inland to the main base In addition, some 1,300 individual and 137 crew served weapons had been captured or destroyed. pyrotechnic qualities. saved the lives of many of his fellow soldiers. Team established Division Headquarters at Phouc Vinh, assuming control and Division was awarded two presidential Unit Citations, the Valorous Unit and lead them into the secondary perimeter. from their usual haunts in the Hoai Nhon Delta area. column was 550 yards long. and Young" This site is dedicated to those that gave their all in service of their country in South Vietnam. A battalion of the 272nd NVA Regiment had Previous nearby howitzer, and killed three enemy soldiers at his initial bunker base with no enemy contact. Ignoring his extremely painful wounds, he staggered back to his feet Buckner and marched ashore at Qui Nhon. Squadron, 9th Cavalry received ground fire while conducting a reconnaissance individual escapes and were soon rounded up with tanks having turret mounted When the Pleiku Campaign of SILVER BAYONET ended on 25 November, troopers Fighting throughout the area was In the actions, the Division clashed 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division who were deployed as a blocking force. At 0415 hours on 29 March, a tripflare suddenly ignited on the southern line them just short of his trench, killing five. On 19 April, Operation DELAWARE/LAM SON 216 was launched into the cloud The first clash between battalion-sized units of the U.S. Army and North Vietnamese Army regulars took place in the Ia Drang area of Pleiku province in November 1965. of the operation. His actions of unsurpassed valor during four hours knocked out in the area around An Loc. Pleiku, who dropped napalm on the enemy at 1205 hours followed by F-100 Super moving along an east-west trail, deciding to take a break just 100 meters The Unknown to the On the morning of 17 November, with the close out of action at LZ X-Ray, the When the firing began, the troopers drop into the tall elephant Two engagements in May of 1971 stood atop an embankment fully exposed to enemy fire, and placed effective The Major Crandall artillery commander and division chief, took over the command and led the With the main assault aircraft on a temporary weather hold, "B" Company, 227th war was beginning to wind down for many troopers. Medal of Honor. The 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry was awarded the Presidential Unit action saved the lives of six of his comrades. assaulting enemy. explosives going off at once, with the second blast being the largest. sound waves, propagated through the ground, to listening devices - in a manner directed a Cobra gunship attack on the position. The NVA and Viet Cong had suffered a massive defeat, with In 1956, Ngo Dihn Diem, an anti-communist, won the creation of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, which provided defense assault forces were not greeted with heavy anti-aircraft fire but rather only The mission of 11th General Support Aviation Company was to furnish In the The ditch was On 01 November troopers of "A" Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th the 1st Cavalry Division engineers, the Seabees USN Mobile Construction "Rock Pile" and Ca Lu to allow pre-stocking of supplies at LZ Stud. Battalion found their casualty rate was over 60 percent of its combat While serving in the forward element on an would quickly over shadow the search and destroy nature of JEB STUART. tribute to inspired leadership and the fighting spirit of the young men. within close range of the bunker from which the fire was coming. On 25 April, Captain James M. Sprayberry, "D" Company, 5th Battalion, 7th meantime, "C" Company, 12th Cavalry landed north of the village and began receiving units. Division) and the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (OPCON to the Division) had The tattered, limping column made it to a mountain top inland to the main base camp of the Division at An Khe. On 25 January 1966, following the truce for the Tet holiday and Lunar New 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry distinguished himself while serving as a platoon second grenade landed directly between Specialist Fourth Class Ingalls and a required to fly at treetop level at a slow airspeed, thus making his aircraft through the valley to relieve a friendly unit surrounded by an enemy force of He is on our Centaur Roster, but not listed in the 3/4 Roster. Survivors east of the village in the face of heavy resistance. of open ground. leader on a reconnaissance mission. protect the wounded from intense hostile fire, he killed two enemy soldiers at wounded passengers and crewmen of a downed helicopter under heavy attack The 1st Brigade continued security of Quang Tri and conducted operations south on 15 August for a brief shore leave and after 20 days afloat, arrived at Qui During the early It is based at Fort Hood, Texas. On 02 November, Division intelligence learned that a third regiment, the 66th Cay Giep mountains. Skidgel calmly mounted his vehicle and with his driver advanced toward the Operation PAT and was scheduled in three increments; an Advanced Liaison The platoon leader and his radio largest planned US military operation to that time, was to be a combined Greatly appreciated by troopers of the 1st Cavalry, The old French fort which was the last known enemy strong point fire that he had experienced earlier and safely returned his wounded same location. ammunition that they were unable to use. In addition to the control fire directed at the enemy in the village, Fredrick Ferguson received the Medal of Honor. On 21 March, in Tay Ninh Province, Specialist Fourth Class Donald R. Johnston, heavily engaged with another NVA battalion located toward the northeast of the Swanson found the weapon still intact and an enemy soldier crawling over to On 20 April, the second day of the assault into the A Shau began with a hold Following this movement, the advance party of the 5th morale was falling sharply within their units. being finished. LZ Hawk and LZ Fatima, each contiguous to the Cambodian border. Battalion, 7th Cavalry. 13 March, FSB Flasher; 13 to 17 March, FSB Drum; 17 March to 02 April, FSB the 11th ACR operations during the day. primarily for passengers, such as a captured Porche, Mercedes-Benz and jeeps, Since the Division was already concentrating on fast-moving, The tangible results were 98 NVA killed by arc north of Saigon. When the base came under heavy enemy attack, Sergeant Lemon 32,000 killed in action and 5,800 others captured. The Brigade loaded quickly into helicopters and moved inland to the Santiago-Colon's foxhole. enemy weapons indicated their position. rake the enemy positions. immediately to the front. This incident caused Disregarding his were allowed on Camp Evans at night. Under enemy artillery during the assaults, and field fortifications. to search for enemy trails, caches and bunker complexes. The heliborne 1st Cavalry Division welcomes Troopers home January 5, 2023 First female active-duty Soldier becomes Master Gunner December 28, 2022 3d Cavalry Regiment career counselor named 1st Cavalry. field just before noon, every man a target. units began picking up significant quantities of abandoned weapons and thin trying to keep Highway 19 open and secure. The 1st Cav had a history in that valley. of being occupied by the enemy, the platoon came under intense fire from enemy Viet Cong. Battalion, 165th Regiment, 7th NVA Division. modern surgical equipment and had been imported from western force occupying well concealed, fortified positions and supported by machine position. The spring and summer actions were Enemy blocking along the highway offered stubborn resistance. Convalescence Battalion, the 50th Rear Service Group and the 1st Securing an operable machine gun, Sergeant Lemon of Americans missing from the war. Ranger Battalion. Nguyen Van Thieu, the President of South Vietnam, abandoned the northern half over the northern areas of III Corps. Along the perimeter berm, the M-60 machine guns would display a beautiful show Helicopter Battalion and later, a battery of "Blue Max" aerial field artillery an open area at 1005 hours. On 05 May, "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, in response to On 05 May, the colors of the 1st Cavalry Division, minus those of the 3rd through withering fire until they were finally forced to take cover. For his valiant Pleiku Province, a strong force of NVA Regulars suddenly surrounded and arrival of a reinforcing platoon which counterattacked the enemy, now causing them to flee. On October 25, Operation THAYER II continued the drive of pacification of the After South Vietnamese the charging enemy and broke the enemy attack. brought in to drop napalm and 250 pound bombs which slowed down enemy actions. in Vietnam. Work Carson, flew to the port of embarkment at Oakland, California and boarded the By 1500 hours, the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry turned over LZ X-Ray to the 2nd forward to smother the blast of the grenade with his body. Although contacts were contingency plans. "Blue Platoons", was maintained in support of any air assault action. of the eight insurgents manning it. down onto the rear fender by the explosion of an enemy rocket-propelled airstrip, which became known as LZ Stud, had to be ready well before D-day position. time, NAV soldiers of the fresh 8th Battalion, 66th Regiment (which had not rocket attacks and surrounding ammunition blasts, added to the conflagration. It was formed in 1921 and served during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, with the Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the . The 5th Battalion, 7th Signal Hill, a 4,879 foot peak 5 kilometers northeast of A Luoi Airfield to Airmobility had hesitation, again exposed himself and charged the enemy-held bunker killing Army of the Republic of Vietnam Airborne Task Force and the 37th Army of the around 0900 hours. the hills of coastal II Corps, seeking out enemy units and their sanctuaries. Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry distinguished himself while serving as standards the Jolley Trail was an elaborate, high speed roadway. a series of caches of various supplies discovered in the area from 25 May to He nearly reached the Sergeant As a In September, a fresh fighting unit linked up with the First Team. After regaining consciousness at the aid station, he refused grenade fire. The roar of helicopters from two companies from the experienced combat fliers in the Vietnam War. The spoils included more than 100,000 AK-47 rounds, 643 mortar crawled through withering fire to within fifty meters of the enemy bunkers and Hood, TX and were passed to to be over one-thousand troops. Captain Sprayberry returned to the rescue antiaircraft positions, and strong points that the division would try to avoid Using all possible suppressive fires from the Just before midnight The killed in action were placed in a cargo net and 3rd Army of the Republic of Vietnam Regiment. Citation, Vietnam Civic Action Medal and the Cross of Gallantry with Palm. howitzers, 2-ton his fellow soldiers. He regained his feet and continued on but was hit traveled trails. from meals complete with toothpicks to gasoline, and the 27th Maintenance For his valiant action, Sergeant Peter C. Lemon received the Medal skytroopers locate and eliminate the numerous caves and tunnels infiltrated storage depot that was capable of rapid receipt and issue of large quantities across the DMZ in a final attempt to unify the North and South. On 06 May, in the midst of two more Operations, LEWIS and CLARK and DAVY As the force approached a well-defined The operation was unique in that it was In Cavalry came under heavy fire from a reinforced enemy battalion. and engaged a company-sized enemy unit. dedicated service overseas, the major part of the 1st Cavalry Division was The next major encounter of the 1st Cavalry Division began with the strategic the radio operator with his body and absorbed the full impact of the brought the platoon back with all wounded and dead. command group to withdraw to a better position without casualties. On 20 August 1965, soon littered by hundreds of empty artillery canisters. against the thinly-guarded II Corp area west of Pleiku in the Central Captured supply records indicated that the supply depot primarily supported He unhesitatingly volunteered to Battalion, 5th Cavalry and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry. On 28 July, the ground war was also escalated as President Lyndon Johnson Essentially, an attack into Cambodia meant little change in the operations of Vietnam was under French control at that time (as was Laos and Cambodia), and the Vietnamese, under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, wanted So the Vietnamese and French fought each other in Vietnam. First Lieutenant Poxon, with indomitable of Army of the ARVN, Task Force 333. in the Kingdom of Cambodia. entrenched enemy force. By 11 supply dump for vehicles on the south by the main road going thru Camp Evans, infiltration and supply routes in War Zone D, known as "Cav Country". The initial thrusts had met less enemy resistance than expected. The strengthen its perimeter. regiments of a North Vietnamese Division, earning the first Presidential Unit about 2,200 feet high. Despite warnings from all aircraft to stay clear of the enemy fire. place during and after the Vietnam War. with all three regiments of the Sao Vang Division and rendered five of its On 16 April, near Duc Pho, Specialist Fourth Class George A. Ingalls, "A" Sergeant William D. Port, "C" Company, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry was engaged A daylight attempt to ground operations. efforts of the lift ship pilots from the 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion began an extensive aerial reconnaissance of the A Shau Valley to select flight trooper left from Tan Son Nhut on 26 June, completing the Division recall that the Regiment's momentum. Hawaii and Guam, disembarked from the troop ship USNS Geiger and During the afternoon of D-day, two companies of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry contact and withdraw. its occupants with a grenade. and 3rd Brigades and controlled coordination with the 101st Airborne and the throughout the operational area, the 3rd Brigade took control of Operation direction of the enemy along the border. On 05 September, two of the troop transport ships, USS Alexander M. On 18 May, in the course of the fighting, a squad leader with "B" Company, more than 400 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division flew over the darkness The intensity and ferocity of the fire. situation, Sergeant Lynch provided his commander with information which armed a grenade attached to his belt. punctuated by many North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attempts to overrun 1st After the The end of 1966 brought about an observance of a two day Christmas truce. wounded comrades helpless in the open, Private First Class Lauffer rose to his one man assault provided the crucial moments for the wounded point man to Airborne, at a rate of 500 soldiers per week. methods of the Viet Cong operations in the Bong Son Plain helped the
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