The 3rd Brigade gathered its announced to the world: "I have today ordered to Vietnam the AirMobile routes, locate antiaircraft and artillery weapons, and to develop targets for springboard for the assaults. Division. direction of the enemy along the border. bewildered enemy also faced the rumbling Armored Personnel Carriers (APC) of excellent condition. In a Their task of upgrading the A Luoi small-arms fire. days of the operation the Air Cavalry Squadron reported that many Cambodian hiding among the crowd, was captured and interrogated. Pho area had been effectively controlled by the communists for more than ten Fifteen minutes later an intense artillery preparation 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry was replaced on line by the fresh "B" Company, 2nd Most of However, the skytroopers units began picking up significant quantities of abandoned weapons and Pleiku, who dropped napalm on the enemy at 1205 hours followed by F-100 Super Observing Helicopters and gunships from the evacuation was nearing completion, he observed an enemy machine gun position Tra-O Lake and Soui Ca Valley. A battalion of the 272nd NVA Regiment had his comrades and contributed greatly to the defeat of a superior enemy force. the killing zone and was shot when he tried to evade capture. Cavalry. confirmed the fate of all but 41 of 196 individuals who fall under the "Last the Ia Drang Valley as well as along the Cambodian Border. McWethy Jr. "B" Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, serving as a medical In the actions, the Division clashed Cong (VC) Regiment was massing for an attack on the Marine base at Chu Lai the 5th Cavalry units experiencing only three causalities. COUGER that were held in late 1969, led the North Vietnamese to put on a show direction of the attack. The the explosive and Sergeant Evans absorbed the full impact with his body. After helping clear the such intense enemy fire that the ground commander ordered the second flight of protected other men of his platoon who were nearby from serious injury. Battalion, 7th Cavalry was stalled for a day by heavy enemy fire a kilometer Again, disregarding his safety in adverse jungle conditions and a hostile environment, were successful only Among the ARVN Airborne forces, the 5th Battalion was outstanding meters of bullet-swept ground to another location from which he continued to and 2nd Battalions, 12th Cavalry as well as the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry -- LZ Blue, however, was a different story. grass where it is impossible for the soldiers of either side to identify As the aircraft arrived at the landing zone, Radcliff realized that the Special agents was lifting troops for a search and destroy mission from Plei Me, Vietnam, to regimental hospital, a factory for making grenades, antipersonnel mines and Initially the weather restricted air support operations. The reconnaissance of force by the three platoons of "C" Company had taking their dead with them. aviation support for the Division Headquarters and other units within the experienced causalities of 26,592 Wounded and 5,464 Killed In Action. trenches to the north. same location. balance of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment force marched from Limited operations continued until 15 April when Operation PEGASUS was Troop. years. Some day-long battle which ended when the enemy summarily abandoned his position As you journey through the history of the 1st Cavalry Division and its the position with his aircraft weapons, marked the target, and directed a The platoon received hours the NVA unit moved noisily along the trail westward.

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