History of the 6th Battalion 27th Artillery Vietnam Part 5 - 1969
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- This is “Part 5- 1969” of a planned Video History of the 6th Battalion 27th Artillery in Vietnam 1965 to 1971. Based on information compiled from "A Legacy of Honor - A History of the 6/27th Artillery Vietnam 1965-67" and other sources, including other history pages obtained from the National Archives, photos and memories of the men who served in the 6/27th Artillery VN during that time as well as official U.S. Army Unit documents from the U.S. National Archives. Part 5 covers the historical points of 1969.
I was one of guys left who was in A 1/2nd, 1st Infantry's mortar platoon when the Western side of the Quan Loi perimeter got overrun on May 12th 1969. A few days after that ground attack, A 1/2 got sent to Song Be (what the Air Cav called FSB Buttons), which had also been hit on May 12th. Our company lost some more people on operations out of there. I spent about 3 weeks trying to keep my head together while trying to explain everything I knew about mortars to guys who had no experience, but it was close to the end of my one year tour and I had less than 90 days left to finish my 2 year draft term, so exactly 4 weeks after the May 12th attack I was out of Vietnam, out of the Army, back home as a civilian and I started UC Davis summer school the following Monday. I was a zombie and did not fit in gracefully.
I served at Quan Loi with the 11th Cav in June of 69. Thank you for this excellent video to document your unit and to honor those who fell at Quan Loi. I have been following your series, all good! I have pictures of the bare ground where one of the attacks took place when I arrived later in June. It was near the old plantation and swimming pool. We set up uphill from the perimeter bunkers. Between my trips to the field several times we were rocketed at noon as the mess hall was just further up the hill past, I believe, some engineer quarters and bunker. The rockets came in around our mess and killed a friend I knew from our commo or maintenance section. The first attack came just before my ACAV crew and I were going to go up for mess. Needless to say I stayed at my vehicle and ate C'S afterward. Later when I came in from missions out with our squadron we had moved to some old barn like buildings. Interestingly, just before I left to return to our basecamp to DEROS I was invited over by a friend from maintenance to drink beer in the late evening/dark beside a roaring campfire near where I had first been positioned.
I also served at Holliday Inn, Bandit Hill, and have pictures of artillery arriving at FSB Doc via Chinook during Atlas Wedge, as I was forward radio relay for our squadron there. Stay Well! And as we said in the Cav - Allons! (The Quan Loi I was at was a relatively large base camp).
Excellent presentation thank you, very interesting,, Americans have something on the inside unlike any other, I was a fo for a 81mm mortar PLT in the 82 in 1973,,thank you brother
That picture of a FADAC ballistic computer reminds me of how slow they were.
my husband was in quan loi 1969-1970 i have some of the news paper clippings and his letter to his mom
I was with the 1st cav air moble i remember being in quan loi but memory is scant
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Well, I'll let you recruits know my uncle was kia , mid3/68, tail end of TET , Central Highlands NAM! 10 days near my 11th bday .Seen neighbors sons , and friends bros sent there from 65-69 last one hm by late 71. All definite PSTD cases. 69 a bad ass year.
Lz Andy
Quan Loi was an Out Post not a Base Camp.
Sorry, but you are wrong. It started out as an LZ - LZ Andy and became a base camp for the Big Red One and then the 1st Cav. Maybe I don't understand your term - Out Post?
Lz Andy
It was about 90 acres with a good-sized asphalt runway in the middle. Lots of C-130s flew in and out of there. The battalions of the 1st Infantry that were based there called it "Quan Loi " Later 8 battalions of the First Air Cav were based there, and they referred to it as "LZ Andy." The 11nth Armoured Cav Regiment and a bunch of different artillery units were also based there. Whatever anybody called it, it was a base camp.
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