Explore the crucial elements of the Vietnam War in this interactive map. They define and locate natural and All rights reserved. to find that LZ or exact location you were in?
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using Grid Line Coordinates, and go from there. 11th Infantry Brigade 69 : C-Btry. 460-245 Le Thanh Dist. Phuoc Tuy, Long An, Gia Dinh, Vung Tau, Saigon, IV Corps UTM zones are numbered consecutively beginning with Zone 1, which includes the westernmost point of Alaska, and progress eastward to Zone 19, which includes Maine. GISsurfer has a feature called 'screenshot mode'.
Vietnam maps and locations of US Army firebases ( - ) displaced to LZ, 3 Mar. For links to those videos, open the GISsurfer homepage (https://gissurfer.com), click the green 'Menu' button and go to the Help page. To do that, we can use the GISsurfer Map. The government claims to control more than 50 percent of the 6.5 million people in the watery region, but in many areas its grip is tenuous. We transported the prisoners our forces captured from the field to the POW camps where MACV took over responsibility in an advisory capacity to see that the Geneva Convention agreement relating to prisoner treatment was adhered to by the South Vietnamese who had control of the camp. We pretty much all went over as privates, and left as Sp5s. 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). An 5. 777-368 DRAGON MTN. The intersection of a UTM zone and a latitude band is (normally) a 6 8 polygon called a grid zone, whose designation in MGRS is formed by the zone number (one or two digits the number for zones 1 to 9 is just a single digit, according to the example in DMA TM 8358.1, Section 3-2,[1] Figure 7), followed by the latitude band letter (uppercase). Thout on Beginning in the mid-1950s, the grid was indicated by blue ticks around the map at 1,000-meter spacing. yes we were their, 1/61 5th. Station 10 AR 939-480. North Vietnam Map. Good Luck! If you liked this article, please share it! Seniors, students, and teachers with valid IDs -$8.00Members,children under 12, First Responders, and Active Military - FREE during the Vietnam War, (Note: I Corps was north and 23rd Division, U.S. 10km NW Pleiku, ZA I spent 19 months with the 1st Battalion of the 173D Airborne Brigade in Viet Nam from May 69 to Dec 70. 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. casualty: Timothy Lee White. land mine blows in between a 5-ton truck pushing and an FDC track vehicle UTM, US National Grid, and MGRS 1000 meter grids all share the same grid. 915-433 CAMP FIDEL S. edge of PhuCat AF Base, BR LZ NORTH ENGLISH Bong Son N. of LZ ENGLISH, BR Dont be shy about seeking help! 21st Division, U.S. ( - ) displaces to LZ Joan, Duc Co. 803-339 HENSEL AIRFIELD at Camp Enari, AR In the case of locating An Khe, you start at 16 Nov. 68 : C-Btry. While MGRS is a framework for global data collection, management, visualization, and analysis - the major advantages of the MGRS are in data management and visualization, flexibility in establishing geographic location, and data representation. 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. 130-307 BASE 202 NVA/ VC Valley Staging Area 40 km WSW AnKhe, 1st Anyone can use the following 'live' GISsurfer map to help learn about Military Grid Reference Sysytem (MGRS) coordinates. For a refresher in the use of the Military Grid Reference System click here MGRS. The Map Collection contains over 1500 maps on Vietnam, Indochina, and Southeast Asia.
U.S. Army Map Service AMS Series Index maps - University of California displaces to LZ Oasis ZA 114-275. Also the new National Museum of the US Army can assist in Army cases. For example, individual houses may be shown as small black squares.
Vietnam WAR - FOR THE ONE'S WHO FOUGHT IT - Google My Maps Elements of 101st Airborne Division, SOUTH VIETNAM FORCES: The Russians had gotten concerned about Israel approaching Cairo and were afraid that they were going to capture it. Trying Can I still get the older topographic maps? ( - ) still at LZ Action. The west half-circle forms a grid zone with designation A; the east half-circle forms one with designation B; see figure 3. who served with C-Btry. Error in input.
PDF Perry-Castaeda Library Map Collection | The University of Texas at Austin 80-84 to BR86-77 506 VALLEY 18km S. Bong Son, 9km W. QL1, BR Tuesday Saturday Elements of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) Summer 1969 Then give each section an amount or value of 100 Countries of the Far East 1932 5. Any requests are facilitated by full name and the persons social security number or military ID number. General Support ) ( - ) as a spilt Battery to 1st Air Cav., and the Hill, AR Tra Noc village across the river gave us mortar and rocket file, not to mention ground assaults. If a 100-meter resolution is enough, 3 + 3 digits suffice; if a 1km resolution is enough, 2 + 2 digits suffice; if 10km resolution is enough, 1 + 1 digits suffice. i:Jt=l Qh^|,d $uIMgfyJ|+d,M8+| Elements of 173rd Airborne Brigade the others are. Ground radar units Others believe that strategists in Hanoi have made a conscious decision to accept vastly increased losses in order to raise the number of American casualties to a point where it may become politically indigestible in the U.S. Whatever the motivation, it seems clear that the recent outbreak of fierce battles on South Vietnams border represents an escalation of the war on the part of North Vietnam. INF, 4th INF DIV. Plus. 060-220 TAN CANH Inter/Sect. ], U.S. Cobra Gun-ships 613-607 LZ HARDTIMES Vinh Thang Valley 20km SE camp Radcliff 7/15th FA, BR Pepperidge Farm remembers: See 50 of their classic cakes, cookies, breads, turnovers & other treats from years ago, See the short-lived Oldsmobile Delmont 88 (1967 & 1968), Check out 100 vintage 1970s supermarkets & retro grocery stores, Silly Putty: The story of the stretchy, bouncy wonder toy of the 20th century, Laverne & Shirley TV show: About the sitcom, plus theme song & lyrics (1976-1983), The Love Boat: All about about the classic TV show, plus the intro & that memorable theme song, Candy Land, the vintage board game that made millions of kids dream of an ice cream & lollipop world, The Impossible Pie recipe book: 12 easy dinner recipes & desserts from 1982. Two Medals of Honor earned by SEALs on I Corps missions. displaced to LZ Linda BR 935-467. Mechanic David E. Holdorf. The boundaries of the latitude bands are parallel circles (dashed black lines in figure 1), which do not coincide with the boundaries of the 100,000-meter squares (blue lines in figure 1). experienced another War casualty as Gun-Section Starting 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). Start Exploring 196th and 198th Light Infantry Brigades I think it will be the Vietnam Center and Archives at the Texas Tech University. 918-750 ), BR For example, here's a map I created that features Leatherneck Square as described in this article: Cody Burleson's Vietnam War Locations Map, Checkout this community curated map on Google My Maps called Vietnam WAR - FOR THE ONES WHO FOUGHT IT. the rest in these two grid zones100 kilometers and broken into 10 equal Most 10 Nov. 69 : C-Btry. The speaker went on to say that another 2,000 should of been awarded Purple Hearts but, for a variety of reasons, were not issued one. 4/68 to 4/69 C-Btry, 7/15th FA, There So, we need to find out the higher level zone that YD is within and add it to the beginning of the coordinate. ZA 226-535 HQ 42nd ARVN jus S. of Pleiku/Nansteph AF, ZA Here, we have links to maps, and all sorts of other useful data! MAP - 83-67 - SAIGON - BIEN HOA - DONG NAI RIVER - 1971 ORPHANAGE - Vietnam War $127.99 Was: $159.99 $4.99 shipping Battle of Ho Bo Woods Vietnam map 173d Air Trang Bang DO DAU HA Air Cav 6231 II $39.99 $4.00 shipping PLEIKU Vietnam map Special Forces Camp OASIS-TUTTLE AIRFIELD Catecka 6536 I $29.99 $4.00 shipping W122. 778-899 LZ ATHENA A/7/15th 4-10/71 NE.
U.S. Military Maps of Hue, Vietnam | Worlds Revealed If the Israelis had started to push into Cairo, threats had been made by the Russians to use their nukes to stop the Israelis. Click on+VIEW FILTERSto toggle on additional filters. Hwy 14, firing numerous missions, Hip-Shoot style over a period of a few 872-958 BONG SON on QL1 75km NNW Qui Nhon VC Valley: 90-93, BR Those screenshots can show any public GIS data. linear parts. Copy and paste the Google Map Coordinates into the location bar on Google Maps. ), BR General Westmoreland was stationed at USARV headquarters at Tan Son Nhut and in early 1967 moved to Long Bien about 20 miles up highway 1 to the north. This truncation can put them on the wrong side of a latitude zone boundary, causing the truncated MGRS string to be considered invalid. 90-76 MISS AMERICA MOUNTAIN Range N. & NW. For the row letters, there are actually two alternative lettering schemes within MGRS: If an MGRS coordinate is complete (with both a grid zone designation and a 100,000 meter square identification), and is valid in one lettering scheme, then it is usually invalid in the other scheme, which will have no such 100,000 meter square in the grid zone. from the Units landing in Qui Nhon June 1967 to March I served as the commander of the 19th Ordnance Company (DAS) in Nha Trang Vietnam from 1965 to 1966. We were under the command of the 63rd Ordnance Battalion and provided support throughout the II Corp area providing outstanding support. Army Engineer Command Timothy J. Haslett, and We had very little American support, mostly C-47 gunships at night and ARVN helocopters and VNAF airstrikes during the day. You can change the color, icon, and description of the pin and even add photos. Each UTM zone is divided into 100,000 meter squares, so that their corners have UTM-coordinates that are multiples of 100,000 meters. Pretty simple The 1st and 3rd Battalions were stationed at L.Z. The units we fight now will break and run, says one general. Quang Duc, Lan Dong, Binh Thuan, Can Raah, III Corps 080-230 85th EVAC. 935-467 LZ LINDA 4km ENE PhuCat AFB C/7/15th FA 5/68, CR07-76 were installed previously. 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. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. important buildings, and bridges. 68 : C-Btry. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view endobj
Approx. Service Battery. This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 06:33. are and how to get to them, whether Thanks for visiting and for supporting a small business! LZ English BS 878-015 and LZ Pony BR 801-829. grid to start the location method. 844-252 LZ JOAN up to 3km SE. I was there in 1966. Dec. 68 to late Jan. 69: C-btry. Corps: Roads, Grid Zones, Airfields, and Directory, (Also see: List of Firebases, LZ's and Base Camps), There was a Vietnamese 615-643 LZ PLUTO Vinh Thang/Happy Valley 36km NW Phu Cat C/7/15 4/24/68, BR The Mafia had an axe to grind because JFKs brother, Bobby, who was the U.S. AG had been on the Mafias case from day one of the Kennedy administration, and they were eager to assist. 10am - 4pm CT. Search our catalog and scope out our consortial partner, the Consortia of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and other libraries worldwide. & Z Map Grids are NOT Like Others! YA Approx. However, you still use the same system to figure out Where You Were! Where Is UTM better or more accurate than latitude/longitude? Hydrographic/Topographic Center. MGRS Mapper (Free Version) | Operational Graphics Tool for Junior Military Leaders format_shapes Touch the Symbol to Add to the Map Frequently Used Symbols CKP T Default Land Unit Select a Symbol Friendly Select an Affiliation None Select a Unit Size Specify unit echelons (separate levels of command) from Fire Team to Command Group C2 None Measure the distance between the places marked on the map. 22km SW Kontum, ZA Corps IV Maps are also available for searching through the Virtual Vietnam Archive. our large on-site page compiled by Dan Gillotti - Firebases mid-Feb. 69 : C-btry. Vietnam WAR - FOR THE ONE'S WHO FOUGHT IT - Google My Maps Click on any Major Base/Event layer or Star When it opens .click on the Image upper left and a viewer will open Blue Star = Medal of. 2 Apr. Map: Highways QL-1, QL-14 and QL-19, II We use the highest quality paper and printing methods to produce these brilliant visual connections to America's past and the veterans who fought in those wars.-Mike, Arizona Territory, Vietnam Topographical Map, Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam Topographical Map, Hill 937, Vietnam Hamburger Hill Topographical Map, Dak To, Vietnam (Western Hills) Topographical Map, Hue City, Vietnam 1:25,000 Topographical Map. 22nd Division Secure .gov websites use HTTPS Vietnam war Era Grid Maps Dated 1965 | eBay or Best Offer. Additional End Game! UpLift, BS The Grid Number Location for AnKhe is BR477435. At one reunion of the 173D Airborne Brigade a guest speaker said that the unit had something akin to about 10,000 men serve in it. is the North coordinate of the last three numbers of BR477-435. All Americans of all branches in Vietnam in one way or another reported to MAC-V. .BUT you must take this into consideration: The locations in the grids are 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. Users can search by map title, subject, scale, or find a location using latitude and longitude (use the gazetteers listed below or on the maps search page to find latitude and longitude for locations in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and North and South Vietnam). In the map (figure 1), which uses the AA scheme, we see that Honolulu is in grid zone 4Q, and square FJ. Btry. FORCES: 3rd Marine Division 1st Marine Division 1st Marine Air Wing 36th Tactical Fighter Wing America! is a great book that gives The short story is that feature will let you make georeferenced JPG and PNG files which you can import into ATAK as part of a KMZ file. To give the position of Honolulu with 100km resolution, we write 4QFJ. FA Batteries May 1968 - May 1969, Major US Army Unit I was radio teletype 1st Signal Brigade, Company A, 52nd Signal Battion in Can Tho and on the Island of Phu Quoc (which was under dispute between Cambodia and South Vietnam of who owned it) 68 69. to ZA299-??? Both men 15 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. I left ben hoa/long ben to duty in Mekong Delta area. Material on this site is provided for education, criticism, commentary, cultural reporting, entertainment, historical reference, and news reporting/analysis. Theseare maps that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has released for sale to the public. 114-275 LZ OASIS AF/THANH AN, Tuttle AF: ZA104-274 - Le Thanh: the grid, the first ( 3 ) three numbers are the ( E ) East coordinates, the last 032-934 POLEI KLENG 16km W. Kontum Montgnard Village/SF CIDG Camp, ZA Aware as they are of the considerable problems remaining in each corps area, most senior U.S. officers profess confidence about over-all military prospects.
BS Grids: Due South BR Grids, BR 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 Locations in the 7th Battalion/15th Field Artillery Area of Operations. Memberships include: Stay up-to-date with the Museum & Library. Related to this is the primacy of the southwest corner of the polygon being the labeling point for an entire polygon. LZs, cities, hamlets and roads using grid locations, we suggest Mike Kelleys