The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Cambodian Incursion (5/1/1970) - Aug. 26th, 2004

FIRST TEAM MAGAZINE | Summer 1970 | SSG Ron Renouf

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FIRST IN CAMBODIA

The long line of helicopters dropped into the landing zone. Overhead, Cobra gunships circled, ready to surpress any enemy fire. It was similar to the countless number of combat assaults the men of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry of the 1st Air Cav Division had made before...with one difference. When the lead Huey set down in the clearing and Specialist 4 Terry Hayes jumped onto the ground the 1st Cav was ready to meet the enemy on a new frontier--in Cambodia.

The remainder of the battalion moved in behind Charlie Company. It was D-Day, May 1, 1970. The entire world would soon focus on the 1st Cav and units under its operational control as American troops plunged across the border looking for the enemy's major food and ammo sanctuaries.

As President Nixon announced his decision to attack NVA ammo caches and other enemy sanctuaries, segments of the joint ARVN-US task force element moved across the border, led by elements of the 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry (Mechanized) and the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, both under operational control of the 1st Air Cav.


Nixon announces invasion of Cambodia
April 30, 1970

The day before, D-Day minus one, Skytroopers were able to boast of being first in Manila, Tokyo, Pyongyang, and the first U.S. division to receive the Presidential Unit Citation in Vietnam. Now, another first was to be recorded by the Cav--the first U.S. division to fight in Cambodia.

On D-Day the men of the 2nd Bn, 7th Cav built Fire Support Base X-Ray, the first artillery fire base in Cambodia. X-Ray was named for the base where the Cav's first major battle in Vietnam took place in the Central Highlands during the 1965 Pleiku Campaign.



Other Cav units quickly moved into Cambodia's Fishhook to reinforce the operation. D-Day plus one brought Charlie Company, 2nd Bn, 5th Cav to X-Ray. The following day the 1st of the 5th combat assaulted into the northern sector of the Fishhook, setting up FSB Terri Lynn. The 1st Bn, 12th Cav established FSB Evans on D-Day plus four.

Completing the first week, D-Day plus six, two additional battalions of Skytroopers smashed into Cambodia northwest of Song Be and established firebases north of Phuoc Long and Binh Long provinces. The Skytroopers moved from the bases to search for enemy sanctuaries. The new units were the 2nd Brigade's 2nd Bn, 12th Cav at FSB Myron and the 5th Bn, 7th Cav at FSB Brown.


The US 1st Air Cavalry Division attacked the Communist bases in the Fishook area after an extensive artillery and B-52-preparation. This UH-1H of the US Army is seen inserting troops on a newly created landing zone in the jungle

Even before the Cav's ground troops were in Cambodia the Cobras and LOHs of the 1st Sqdn, 9th Cav were in the air, their sharp-eyed crews scouring the ground below for signs of enemy activity. They spotted plenty of movement, mostly Communists rapidly retreating from the contact area. Time after time the Hunter-Killer teams swooped down on the fleeing foe, accounting for many of the enemy killed by the Cav in the operation. The Pink Teams also frequently spotted the enemy complexes that contained huge stores of supplies.

D-Day plus one, May 2, 1970, Hunter Killers of Bravo Troop, 1st of the 9th, found a major NVA military installation, soon to be nicknamed "The City," consisting of more than 300 buildings complete with all-weather bamboo walkways winding through the complex.


Airlifted into Cambodia

Warrant Officer James Cyrus, a LOH pilot with Bravo Troop, discovered the complex during a routine mission.

"We found the building complex almost by accident, 12 kilometers west and 25 north of the Cambodian border. We were looking for something in the area, but didn't see anything at first."

"Then I spotted one hootch well camouflaged. Unless you were at treetop level, it would be almost invisible."

"I just followed the bamboo walks from hootch to hootch, and saw the street signs, bridges with walkways and ropes and what looked like a motor pool and lumber yard" he added.



The 1st Bn, 5th Cav was inserted the following afternoon in an area four kilometers north of the complex area. Charlie Company deployed and swept toward the huge military installation.

Refugees, flooding Highway 7 near the new FSB Terri Lynn in an attempt to escape North Vietnamese forces, confirmed the location of the installation and further described it as a major supply depot.

Charlie Company moved out of the LZ and down Highway 7 toward the suspected enemy complex. Leaving the road, they entered extremely heavy underbrush, slowing movement to a crawl. Overhead, a light observation helicopter from Bravo Troop circled and called directions to the grunts below, leading them toward the gigantic complex.



That first night, Charlie Company Skytroopers set up their NDP (night defensive position) less than a kilometer from the installation's perimeter. The under growth below the triple canopy jungle was so dense that it took the company the entire following morning to move the final kilometer to the complex.

[SAMWolf]

As the troops of Charlie Company approached the edge of the gigantic base they received light AK-47 fire from two of the enemy bunkers. Grenade-hurling Skytroopers quickly silenced the enemy, killing four NVA while suffering no casualties. "They were the easiest kills we've ever had," commented Captain Kevin Corcoran, the company commander.



The complex was three kilometers long and one-and-a-half wide. The buildings were bulging with arms and ammunition. In the first 24 hours of the search of the complex, Charlie Company captured four bunkers loaded with .51 caliber ammo, and one building full of weapons ranging from an old flintlock to shotguns and new SKS's, 15 .30 caliber anti-aircraft machineguns complete with wheeled carriages and extra barrels and six cases of .9 mm machineguns with drums and magazines.

Uncovered later were numerous 60 mm mortar tubes and 60 mm ammo, crated 120 mm mortars, repair kits for numerous types of weapons, two bunkers of 57 mm recoilless rifle rounds, 57 mm recoilless rifles complete with stands, two bunkers of explosives, det cord and shaped charges, and medical supplies. Many of the weapons were still packed in cosmoline--protective grease.

Also discovered in "The City" by Charlie Company's Skytroopers was what appeared to be an NVA R&R center, elaborately laid out and complete with a swimming pool.

Meanwhile, tankers from the 2nd Squadron, 47th Armor, opcon to the 1st Cav, interdicted Highway 7 in the southern portion of the Fishhook. Patrolling the area around their CP, the armored vehicles overran countless enemy bunkers that the troops methodically destroyed.

The Cav's other initial Cambodian assault, north of Phuoc Long and Binh Long Provinces, also had spectacular results.

Scout pilot Charles L. Frazier of Charlie Troop, 1st of the 9th, was on a routine recon 10 miles northeast of Bu Dop near the 2nd Brigade's FSB Myron.

"We saw a road running out of a small village. Following the road, which had been heavily used recently by trucks, we could see pallets stacked off the side of the road," Recalled Frazier.

"But the overhead jungle canopy was too thick to see very far inside. Next day two of the pallets we'd seen previously were gone and we found truck tracks leading to the spot. We followed them and saw three two-and-a-half ton trucks loaded with troops in complete NVA field uniforms. They heard us and tried to dismount the truck and hide. We engaged them and killed 23 of them and destroyed their trucks."

Searching for weapons in Cambodia

Learning of the discovery, Lieutenant Colonel Francis A. Ianni of the 2nd Bn, 12th Cav sent Delta Company to make a combat assault into the contact area. The Skytroopers landed 500 meters north of the site and moved south, spotting two individuals but losing their blood trails in the jungle. Two platoons began sweeping the area. Fifty meters across the road they made heavy contact with an estimated 40 to 60 enemy soldiers.

"We broke the ambush," said Lt. Col. Ianni, "by forming the company into an assault line that scattered the enemy." During the contact Blue Max Cobras blew one of the caches with rockets, revealing the cache sites.

[SAMWolf]

The company renewed the sweep and found several of the individual caches before setting up an NDP. The enemy hit the NDP that night in groups of two or three, moving toward the perimeter from all sides.


Cpt. Bennet Jones blowing bunker in Cambodia

"The company engaged them with artillery, ARA and air strikes," related 1st Lt. Gary Huesseed, artillery forward observer,"then things quieted down for the night."

Toward the end of the evening Charlie Company and recon platoons of Echo Company combat assaulted into the area, joining Delta Company the next morning, and explored the site.



Nicknamed "Rock Island East" after an arsenal in Illinois, the complex extended to 40 or 50 individual caches, stacked six feet high on 20'X15' pallets hidden in the jungle and sometimes covered with brush. The pallets were 20 to 30 meters apart on alternating sides of the trail. The cache contained millions of .51 caliber rounds and thousands of mortar rounds, recoilless rifle rounds and rockets. Large quantities of rifles, grenades and other equipment were also found.



Attention remained focused on the region north of Phuoc Long and Binh Long through the rest of May, as most Cav units moved into the area and activity declined in the Fishhook. The units surrounded a large cache site and began putting the squeeze on the enemy. The Communists put up stiff resistance, though American forces managed to hold their losses to a minimum.

Elements of the 5th Bn, 7th Cav were the first to make significant munitions finds in the area when they encountered a well fortified NVA storage complex built into a hill 26 miles northeast of Song Be.



The fight for the hill began when Bravo Company watched from another hilltop as convoy headlights disappeared at night over the distant hills. As they moved through the valley toward the lights determined delaying tactics by the enemy slowed the advance to a crawl. They spent the night at the foot of the hill and started up the next morning.

"About halfway up at a five foot ledge we began getting AK-47, machinegun and B-40 fire," said Sergeant Pat McConwell of the recon platoon. "They could have rolled grenades down on us from up there. I'm sure glad they didn't."



The company withdrew and thoroughly prepped the area with artillery and air strikes before trying again the next day. "I called in artillery all night," recalled 2nd Lt. William Harrington, "and the next morning the Air Force came in again and pounded the hell out of the top of that hill." As the company advanced again, they were preceded by artillery barrages and Blue Max rocket runs.

The company formed into a three platoon assault line about a quarter of the way up the embattled slope. A torrent of B-40 and machinegun fire greeted them as they slogged 300 meters to the crest through heavy rain. By nightfall four hours later the muddy Skytroopers owned the hill. The enemy had left three dead and numerous blood trails. One American was killed.


US troops burn Cambodian village during invasion of Cambodia, 1970.

The next morning the Skytroopers found 12-foot-deep bunkers cut on all sides of the hill. At the bottom of each bunker a drainage system kept the pallets--stacked high with weapons and ammunition--dry.

That cache and others found by Cav elements in the area yielded hundreds of tons of rice and salt, and thousands of weapons and rounds of ammo. Munitions and food were not the only items found. Alpha Company, 1st Bn, 8th Cav captured 380 hammocks, 1,000 pairs of socks, 900 leather belts, and 500,000 buttons.



By the end of the first four weeks of the Cambodian operation, 1st Air Cav troopers along with units under their operational control had achieved phenomenal success. Enemy dead in the Cambodian operations counted 2,346, with 40 NVA detainees.

Captured or destroyed were 5,562 individual weapons, 906 crew served weapons, more than 1,636 tons of rice, more than 6 million rounds of small caliber ammo, and 40,875 large caliber rounds. 123 Americans had been killed and 366 wounded.

High ranking military officials estimated it would take the enemy months, perhaps more than a year to recover from these losses.



The time bought and paid for by Skyroopers would, according to President Nixon, "permit the Vietnamization Program to forge ahead, unimpeded. By the time the enemy forces are able to rebuild, if they do, the Vietnamese Army will be strong enough to handle the situation by itself, enabling us to continue withdrawing our soldiers from Vietnam."

Skytroopers have added another chapter, not only to the 1st Air Cav's history, but perhaps to the history of the world in the United States' continued quest for a just and honorable peace in the Republic of Vietnam

Additional Sources:

www.army.mil
www.acig.org
www.pieceuniquegallery.com
www.promotion.opb.org
chnm.gmu.edu
shepherd.edzone.net
www.i-kirk.info
www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/6485

[SAMWolf]

'The Cambodian Incursion of 1970 was one of the few times the politicians running the war in Washington allowed the U.S. military to conduct operations that made sense! To this day I still feel the incursion was not only justified, but necessary and only regret that the incursion was limited in size, scope and that time constraints were imposed by politicians and political agendas. The operation could have been far more successful if the large and overt U.S. cross-border operations had been allowed to continue and U.S. intel had not been ignored and compromised.'

Roger Young

[SAMWolf]

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Mounted Combat In Vietnam: Chapter VII: Across Across the Border: Sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos

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On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on August 26:
1676 Sir Robert Walpole (Whig) British PM (1721-42)
1740 Joseph Montgolfier France, aeronaut (ballooning)
1743 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen)
1811 Danville Leadbetter Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1819 Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha husband of queen Victoria (Prince Albert)
1833 Charles Jackson Paine Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 Theodore Washington Brevard Brig General (Confederate Army)
1838 John Wilkes Booth actor/assassin (Pres Lincoln)
1850 Charles Richet French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)
1873 Lee De Forest Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube)
1884 Earl Biggers author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)
1901 Gen Maxwell D Taylor former US Army chief of staff
1903 Jimmy Rushing US blues singer
1906 Dr Albert B Sabin polio vaccine discoverer
1909 Frank Gasparro Phila Pa, US chief engraver (1965-81)
1915 Jim Davis Edgerton Mo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas)
1917 Jan Clayton Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)
1917 William French Smith Attorney General (1981-85)
1921 Benjamin C Bradlee journalist (Wash Post)
1932 Joe H Engle Abilene Ks, Brig Gen USAF/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I)
1935 Geraldine Ferraro (Rep-D-NY) 1st female major-party VP candidate
1942 John E Blaha San Antonio, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 29, 33, STS 43)
1942 Vic Dana Buffalo, singer/dancer (Talent Scouts)
1943 Ulf Sundelin Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 Candy Moore Maplewood NJ, actress (Lunch Wagon, Tomboy & Champ)
1948 Valerie Simpson Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner (Like a Rock)
1952 John Kinsella USA, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1965 Chris Burke actor with down syndrome (Life Goes On)
1981 Macauley Culkin actor (Home Alone, My Girl)

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Deaths which occurred on August 26:
0526 Theodorik the Goth, King of Italy
1278 Ottokar II King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle
1723 Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope)
1930 Lon Chaney, actor
1966 Art Baker TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
1974 Charles Lindbergh dies at 72 in his Hawaiian home
1978 Charles Boyer actor (The Rogues), dies at 78
1981 Roger Nash Baldwin founder of the ACLU, dies
1986 Jennifer Levin strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park
1986 Ted Knight actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show), dies at 62

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 DAVIS EDWARD A. MORRISTOWN PA.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV,ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 DAY GEORGE EVERETTE NIAGARA FALLS NY.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 FULLER WILLIAM OTIS HOUSTON TX.
1967 KILCULLEN THOMAS MICHAEL ADELPHI MD.
1971 VENNIK ROBERT N. WYCKOFF NJ.
1972 CORDOVA SAM GARY HUNTINGTON BEACH CA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 12/15/88]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0055 BC- Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Britain
0580 Chinese invent toilet paper
1017 Turks defeat the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV at Manikert, Eastern Turkey.
1278 Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
1346 English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crecy
1429 Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris.
1629 Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
1791 John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat
1843 Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1846 W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
1862 Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson encircles the Union Army under General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1863 Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)
1873 St.Louis, Missouri First public school for kindergarten in the US was opened
1874 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
1883 Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
1896 Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople
1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1914 Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg
1916 Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
1920 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!)
1937 Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished
1938 Montreal Maroons dropped from the NHL
1942 7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France
1947 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
1952 Fluoridation of SF water begins
1955 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
1957 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1957 Ford Motor Company reveals the Edsel, its latest luxury car.
1961 Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
1964 LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
1968 Thousands of antiwar demonstrators took to Chicago's streets to protest the Vietnam War during the Democratic National Convention.
1971 NY Giant football team announces its leaving the Bronx for NJ in 1975
1972 NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win the NASL championship
1972 Summer Olympics open in Munich, West Germany
1973 U of Tx (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
1974 Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I (dies 34 days later)
1978 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1981 Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
1981 Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan
1984 Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
1985 Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs Calif Angels
1985 French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
1989 Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
1990 2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida
1991 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
1998 Attorney General Janet Reno asked for a 90-day preliminary investigation into alleged campaign fund-raising phone calls Vice President Gore made from the White House. Such calls would violate a 1883 law.
2001 The Tokyo Kitasuna beat Apopka, Fla., 2-1 to win the Little League championship in South Williamsport, Pa.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"


England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales : Bank Holiday ( Monday )
Namibia : Namibia Day
US : Women's Equality Day (1973)/Susan B Anthony Day (1920)
Zanzibar : Sultan's Birthday
USA : All You Can Eat Day
National Catfish Month

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Religious Observances
Zen-Kyoto Japan Bodhisattva Jizo festival at Daitokuji
RC : Commemoration of St Zephyrinus, pope (198-217), martyr

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Religious History
1498 In Rome, Italian artist Michelangelo, 23, was commissioned by Pope Alexander VI to carve the "Pieta" Mary lamenting over the dead body of Jesus, whom she holds across her lap). The work was completed in 1501.
1832 Death of Adam Clarke, 70, English Methodist clergyman. Clarke's name endures primarily for the 8-volume commentary on the Bible which he produced between 1810-26, and still in print today!
1901 The New Testament of the ASV (American Standard Version) Bible was first published. This U.S. edition of the 1881 English Revised Version (ERV) comprised the first major American Bible translation since the King James Version of 1611.
1956 Swedish Christian statesman Dag Hammarskjald recorded in his devotional journal (Markings): 'Bless your uneasiness as a sign that there is still life in you.'
1978 Italian Cardinal Albino Luciani, 65, was elevated to the papacy as John Paul I. His unexpected death only 34 days later left a profound sadness for millions of people who had been drawn to him by his warm personality.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"You're smart when you only believe half of what you hear, Wise is when you know which half to believe."

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Translating Southern United States Slang to English...
BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

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Top 10 Difference Between Cats & Dogs...
3. Dogs will sit, lie down, and heel on command.
Cats will smirk and walk away.

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Politically Correct Terms for Females...
She is not a bad cook,
she is microwave compatible.

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Feel Smarter -- Instantly!...
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana....The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.


-- Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show

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Charlie's View of a Sheridan.

Picture by John Tillman, B Troop, 11th ACR.

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Good morning everyone.

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Good Morning Neil.

Thanks for the support and encouragement. One you go high speed, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Aeronaut.

Take care and stay safe. See ya on Monday.