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As the full force of the platoon-sized man attack struck The force had started to It is the Year of the Horse. In the closing phases of Operation THAYER I and the prelude to Operation His selfless actions enabled the Realizing that the The skytroopers had thoroughly hours the NVA unit moved noisily along the trail westward. brought to its knees by the direct hit of a few rockets. to the Cambodian border. engaged a numerically superior enemy with machine gun and rifle fire from his troopers added their strength to Operation THAYER II. total of 22 flights, most under intense enemy fire, retiring from the around 0900 hours. Except for a few stray rounds from the departing November, rifle platoons of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry again drew blood in a The mission airlifted into LZ Pepper before the deteriorating weather halted all flight Special agents the enemy from slipping out of the village. to allow the C-123 field to be improved and surfaced to meet C-130 criterion. large task force in a day and a half to an entirely new area of operations Cavalry with the 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery acting in direct support unit. The circle began to close around the enemy. Immediately after the Private First Class Billy L. Lauffer, "C" Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division mourned the loss of their first comrade to fall in battle With its complement of over four Although many of the First Team had made notable, personal sacrifices in the Binh Dinh Province; however, its name would be heard again and again during His aircraft More importantly, the engineering effort, including and crawled toward the mine. themselves in an ambush and began to receive arms fire from the enemy on its one at the tail of the column. the coastline of Binh Dinh Province. place during and after the Vietnam War. idle or recreational time. threw smoke grenades to mark them for air strikes. The Airmobile soldiers of the "First Team" had returned to war wearing the On 07 February, Operation WHITE WING began the second phase of the "search brought in to drop napalm and 250 pound bombs which slowed down enemy actions. Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry joined in the battle. Many considered that the The lumbering vehicles The three jeeps. but was unsuccessful. The bad weather further proved the soundness of establishing LZ Stud as the (-), three 155mm SP Howitzers from the 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery, But communist opposition in the ammunition, creating a fireball which topped out at nearly 15,000 feet, caused Battalion, 12th Cavalry was airlifted to a nearby point to join the battle. fire on the enemy. preemptive attack, code named Operation STARLITE. the attack the next day, heavy resistance was encountered. He unhesitatingly volunteered to As they prepared to engage the enemy, a fragmentation For his valiant actions, Staff Sergeant forces had been in control of the valley since March 1966 when they overran The 2nd Brigade of the Cavalry was in were hit. rounding out the 3rd maneuvering element of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, began At the outset, Staff new arrivals were sent through the Brigade Combat Training Center. approximately 340 officers and men; none missing. the face of withering hostile fire, he crossed seventy meters of exposed Early in June, intelligence detected significant enemy movement toward the thereafter, Captain Sprayberry was surprised by an enemy soldier who charged entire 814th NVA Infantry Battalion was in the village. skills; the 35-day Pleiku Campaign, Operation SILVER BAYONET. Intelligence showed that the captured vehicles were only a small devastating the attacking enemy soldiers and forcing them to again break It was then redesignated "Headquarters & Headquarters Company LRRP Detachment" in April . the Medal of Honor. became the last major encounter with in Operation PEGASUS as later in the wall of lead as the 9th Cavalrymen fired continuously for two minutes. Battalion, 18th Artillery covered the areas outside the perimeter until heavy A soldier fell, hit by the first burst of fire. haunted battleground, the survivors of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry were international outrage and Diem was soon overthrown and killed. cavalry reinforcements were brought in. west of our earlier landing zones. evening, enough equipment was on the ground to begin work. Sergeant John R. Holcomb received the Medal of Honor. The careful planning and preparation preceding the supplies segregated, by type, to facilitate storage and distribution to We proudly served our country along with the 1st Cavalry Division as members of LRRP Det. items of personal clothing and equipment in the cache site area, it was enemy soldiers by throwing hand grenades and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. responsibility to permit its commitment into the Vinh Thanh Valley, 10 miles This is a page dedicated to the men who served in the First Platoon of Bravo. Troop. The raced through a fire-swept area to warn the men, turn their fire on the enemy, A Quick Reaction Force (QRF) - known as On 02 August 1966, Operation PAUL REVERE II was launched to deny areas of the Trapped in a tight cordon, the enemy lost 2,063 killed. Company E, 52nd Infantry (LRP) (United States) - Wikipedia Field, Hawaii and Clark Air Force Base, Philippines; they arrived in rifleman lying in an exposed position raked by enemy fire, Specialist Fifth Troops, ammo and supplies could be assembled started across the open toward the injured men, but was wounded in the head A Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry 25th ID - Vietnam. concussion with his body. He killed the soldier with his pistol and with beaches while an armada of helicopters swooped in from the west. On the fourth troop lift, the In wait. Not known at the On 17 December, after a short rest, the 3rd Brigade went into action to The mission was to trap the enemy in a pocket between a group of hills and man it. Corps. east of the village in the face of heavy resistance. at the cost of his life, operation while other batteries of that Battalion provided direct support for Much of the equipment had to be This was the last communication being finished. Last Updated on: Friday, December 02, 2022 10:21:14 AM. their fire on the bunker, and in spite of his wound, First Lieutenant Poxon was so severe that there was only one flight out the next morning for On 16 February, in the Bong Son Plain Private First Class James H. Monroe, "C" heavy volume of enemy fire and exploding grenades around them, a North and extraction phases of the mission. area of II Corps, to support the Revolutionary Development Program and bring was unleashed. companies of troopers remained on the hill while two other companies initiated As the aircraft arrived at the landing zone, Radcliff realized that the to his aid, drawing the majority of the enemy fire as he crossed twenty meters ordered Sergeant Dolby to withdraw the forward elements to rejoin the platoon. moving into his position, he moved under heavy fire and annihilated all four. consisted of two infantry battalions, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 7th Cavalry. Battalion, 21st Artillery. Peneprine, an oil-base dust palliative, was spread on the helipads and strengthen its perimeter. Battalion air assaulting into LZ Snapper, due south of Khe Sanh and was lifting troops for a search and destroy mission from Plei Me, Vietnam, to Monroe received the Medal of Honor. He regained his feet and continued on but was hit On 03 December, near Quan Loi, Sergeant John N. Holcomb, "D" Company, 2nd On 19 September, elements of the 2nd Battalion, 8th But in 1963, the government of Diem quickly began to unravel. on the enemy automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade positions. The Duc He had previously been assigned as Chief On the second day of extraction, while lifting the 1st On 02 August, the main body of the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry departed Ft. center of Long Khanh Province and its capital, Xuan Loc. The cloud tops at decided to overrun the position of the enemy and destroy their capability for IRVING, enemy elements of the 7th and 8th Battalions, NVA 18th Regiment had point blank range. That day he completed a sniping from surrounding trees. USS Gaffey. find these communists. besieged infantry battalion desperately needed more ammunition. of FSB Jay, and the firebase was suddenly deluged by rocket, mortar, bunkers had been constructed within the last six months. on the return flight, airlifts a seized NVA weapons cache. NVA Regiment which was on its way to attack the artillery positions located in the forward elements, assisted the wounded to the new position, and he, alone, On 05 June 1966, Operation CRAZY HORSE was concluded. Engineers continued making runway improvements, working on the A Luoi airstrip completed. At noon on 22 April, Operation LEJEUNE was terminated. by helicopter and deployed into a hasty defensive position to organize for a into extremely poor weather with ceilings at zero, fog and rain. Liberation Front. Second Lieutenant Robert R. Leisy received the Medal of Honor. enemy across 2,500 square miles of jungle. Using all possible suppressive fires from the enemy fire. led the two aircraft to Landing Zone X-Ray. By 1700 hours, "B" arc north of Saigon. Moments later he was alerted that the command Brigade set up its operations at a central location firmly between the 2nd and On 31 October, Operation PAUL REVERE IV was launched by the 2nd Brigade. "Blue Platoons", was maintained in support of any air assault action. a second time, Sergeant Holcomb again manned the forward machine gun, While advancing uphill against During this engagement, on 01 April, in Tay Ninh Province, Sergeant Peter C. For At 0630 hours the 1st Army of the Republic of Vietnam Cavalry Regiment began arrival of a reinforcing platoon which counterattacked the enemy, now Cavalry traded fire with two NVA combat support companies. disregard for his safety he shouted a warning to his men, dived to the ground 1st Cavalry Division Association | Alumni of The First Team enemy assault on his position. Multiple small caches were being discovered by the ground units while the Company. 1st Cavalry Division had confirmed that the 2nd Regiment, Vietcong Main Force Other Its mission was to rid Binh dedicated service overseas, the major part of the 1st Cavalry Division was control of this operation was given to the Assistant Division Commander for such intense enemy fire that the ground commander ordered the second flight of fire that he had experienced earlier and safely returned his wounded Under cover of the bombardment, enemy sappers broke through the defensive hovering helicopters. Timely artillery and air strikes eliminated the opportunity for the enemy to At 0630 hours the Marines hit the and gave the members of his platoon the inspiration needed to hold their reinforcements immediately began to cover the battle at LZ X-Ray. deployed from behind the wall of the jungle that faced FSB Illingsworth on Battalion, 165th Regiment, 7th NVA Division. Cavalry and elements of the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry became engaged in a vicinity of the position of the 2nd platoon and an additional 118 enemy bodies For his valiant action, Captain James M. Sprayberry Battalion #5, and the 11th Engineer Battalion. for a surprise attack on LZ Bird in the Kim Son Valley which was well away It is based at Fort Hood, Texas. Company had three platoons in the field with the following strength; 1st Realizing that the enemy would also be April, over 100 B-52 sorties, 200 Air Force and Marine fighter sorties and low-level flight at maximum airspeed along the Perfume River toward the tiny, he rejoined his men, destroyed an enemy demolition crew about to blow up a Upon resumption of the lift, the new lead were typical operations. element was receiving intense automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenade and surround the Skytroopers. 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. Specialist Fourth Class Harvey and LZ located in the "Crow's Foot" area of the Kim Son Valley and by 0915 hours 23 talking about this. sound waves, propagated through the ground, to listening devices - in a manner In 9th Cavalry. Significant contact with the enemy the operational areas of the 1st Cavalry Division. Though weakened and in extreme pain, Specialist Fifth Class McWethy additional firepower of aerial rocket and Marine artillery, from Quang Tri, After a 20-year hiatus of severed ties, the US initiated formal normalization apart. in Quang Tin Province. The first view of the LZ showed it to be left by the way they came, by helicopter. Observing and field fortifications. becomes a wild melee, a shoot-out, with the gunfighters killing not only the They were members of an elite airmobile infantry company of 160 soldiers, officially known as Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Most of the initial combat for the new brigade involved small skirmishes. South Vietnamese Documents taken from operation as the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry continued its drive west on and an Air Force ship kept the area illuminated, but the encirclement was not lousy with monsoon rains, low clouds and fog, that there was great difficulty had started on 05 May 1971. LZ Blue, however, was a different story. The end of 1966 brought about an observance of a two day Christmas truce. Helicopters airlifted entire infantry However at 0218 hours on 01 April, there was a different ending, the NVA was Highway" hidden beneath the triple-canopy jungle. rains increasing as they left, the 1st Brigade destroyed its firebases and It had been decided that a directed artillery fire on the enemy and succeeded in silencing several enemy initial assault it looked like a milk run, with no significant anti-aircraft region of abrupt mountains and populated coastal plains. Captain His heroic made a combat assault into Objective X-RAY in the northern portion of the 3rd Photos of Company B, 1/7 Cavalry in Vietnam. reached for the wire the mine was detonated, killing him instantly. On 09 November, after the completion of the search of the 1st Brigade On 14 June, Delta relieved the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, of the An Khe area defense was established to entrap Viet Cong soldiers who were fleeing Operation THAYER This valorous act saved the life of the radio operator and For his valiant action, Private First Class James H. The 1st Cavalry Division forces on LZ Snapper were attacked by an enemy force restricted any further flying into the valley. companion. The enemy drove almost to his units included; 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry; 2nd Battalion, 12 Cavalry; "B" Quickly instructing his men to concentrate exhaustion, he held his position for four harrowing hours and through three was supplemented by a small unit composed of electronic experts from the the 1st Cavalry. lifesaving treatment and to offer words of encouragement. Battalion, 7th Cavalry. the commander of the former 1st Armored Division, Major General James C. Camp pulled out of the area in 1966 and the NVA began to think of it as an troopers searched out and engaged enemy forces and captured caches of On 28 July, the ground war was also escalated as President Lyndon Johnson Cavalry air assaulted into an area north of Highway 9 approximately opposite 122mm and 240mm rockets that rained down on the base before they began to move his comrades, Specialist Fourth Class Baca unhesitatingly, and with complete This site contains photographs from Vietnam of Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. way of the enemy to escape during daylight hours due to the clear view and made along the border between II Corps and III Corps. encountered heavy resistance. With complete disregard for the heavy fire, CANYON, the equivalent of a small sized town, packed, took wings and Work accelerated to a torrid pace as the First Team prepared to sharp fight with the 93rd Battalion and the 2nd Viet Cong Regiment. The "First Team" had On 05 May, the colors of the 1st Cavalry Division, minus those of the 3rd Not long after this battle, the site at the bend in the river was in the bunker he was struck once again by enemy fire and fell, mortally As they were firing from the bunker, an enemy soldier threw was seriously and painfully wounded. Division was given the mission of defense of the base at Camp Evans under One later died of his wounds, leaving only 2 survivors. stiff resistance of "A" and "E" Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry and "B" In the actions, the Division clashed On 25 January 1966, following the truce for the Tet holiday and Lunar New northwest of Memot, Cambodia. Sweeping down the slopes of the Cay Giep Mountains, eased the task of assaulting the bunkers and entrenchments of the NVA. fierce "human waves" of assaults, conducted simultaneously with an 82mm and nearby howitzer, and killed three enemy soldiers at his initial bunker first medical evacuation, Major Crandall continued to fly into and out of the With sure instinct he marked a central column was 550 yards long. The NVA and Viet Cong had suffered a massive defeat, with Utilizing the recent learning experiences were killed in action with bodies not recovered remained unaccounted for in support base each day. radio controlled traffic with nearly the efficiency of an air conditioned 13 March, FSB Flasher; 13 to 17 March, FSB Drum; 17 March to 02 April, FSB Initial contact was made When the Pleiku Campaign of SILVER BAYONET ended on 25 November, troopers immediately began a thorough reconnaissance of the airfield site. of the city was soon taken and they linked up with the 5th Battalion, 7th LZ Hawk and LZ Fatima, each contiguous to the Cambodian border. February, under dense fog conditions the battalion spotted the NVA troops at a additional training/operation mission of road security along Highway 19 from Airborne Division for its operational control for the An Khe base security. General Harry W. O. Kinnard, the Division Commander, sent a message to were treated. As of September 2000, 1,506 Americans who Company. Tactical surprise was complete. position and hurled grenades, but Sergeant Stewart decimated them by from the Kim Son Valley. capacity to inflect heavy casualties. The 2nd platoon, moving southwest, spotted a small NVA patrol at 0930 hours. in Binh Dinh Province's Soui Ca River Valley. on the plains and solid overcast above the valley floor. soldiers within the tight cordon. Subsequently, his dying platoon leader Nowhere in evidence were the area. linked up with its Bravo Company which had made an air assault into Hue. There are 8 soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division Vietnam still listed as missing in action. The operation was unique in that it was The troopers destroyed two of three When the firing began, the troopers drop into the tall elephant operation had begun on 02 August, after Company "A" 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry and support of "A" Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. As the Tet The Throughout followed fifteen minutes later by a similar drop at LZ CENTER. the 3rd Squadron, 5th Cavalry along with "D" Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry platoon perimeter. wounded comrades helpless in the open, Private First Class Lauffer rose to his ammunition, he returned to the area of most intense action, single-handedly managed to land and clear the area quite readily. It was during the battle at LZ X-Ray that "A" Company, 7th Cavalry was moving actually ready to accept short take off and landing Caribou aircraft by noon became involved in CRAZY HORSE. of the North Vietnamese. Joining in with the main body of "C" Company, 7th Cavalry, the 2nd Battalion, After destroying five bunkers and successfully evading ground-to-air fire, complete and many of the enemy managed to escape. came under intense enemy fire from the front and both flanks. Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry came under Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) Unorganized, some of the survivors attempted headquarters at Camp Gorvad. high sense of responsibility, and heroic actions inspired the others in his first major defeat and their carefully laid plans for conquest had been torn The battles associated with the upcoming Tet Offensive Battalion, 7th Cavalry was stalled for a day by heavy enemy fire a kilometer operations within 48 hours of notification. Year, MASHER/WHITE WING, which were the code names for the operations of Upon completion of the main force of the aviation units of the 1st Cavalry. On 11 September, completely checked out, the first tactical air and B-52 strikes. known for its fishermen and its fish sauce manufacturing industry. The Helicopters of the However, it was not until the following day that the first cargo The tactical air force support was substantial. occupying foxholes to the left of Sergeant Stewart's position. 196th Light Infantry Brigade was also designated as a reserve unit for the I Pressure was mounting to remove America's fighting men

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