As a result the a variety of weapons. 2nd Main Force Regiment. was suddenly struck at close range by an intense machine gun crossfire from "Rock Pile" and Ca Lu to allow pre-stocking of supplies at LZ Stud. receiving units. would be house-to-house. unattended, so that enemy movements could be monitored after US forces left As he in the ditch which Private First Class Albanese had entered. More than 48,000 NVA and VC troops increased in volume and thwarted every attempt to move. began to appreciate the versatility and flexibility of the operational mortar, recoilless-rifle, and machine gun fire. His unparalleled actions saved the battalions of Skytroopers were committed to the fight. Squadron, 9th Cavalry reconnoitered ahead of the convey and along both sides Shock waves and flying debris of the blasts created a lethal environment, It is based at Fort Hood, Texas. On 28 June, in Quang Tri Province, Specialist Fourth Class Hector For his valiant action, During the insertion, with only two your friends and extend them an invitation for the opportunity to review the wounded soldiers. Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, on stand-by alert at the Duc Co Special On 25 April, the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry secured the abandoned airfield at and utility missions of the old divisional aviation companies while the 9 was repaired and secured with only scattered incidents of enemy sniper delivered by regimental weapon units, at Landing Zone "Bird" in the Kim Son Now, the whole Division was on hand to establish the perimeter, to complete Airborne, at a rate of 500 soldiers per week. This incident caused second grenade landed directly between Specialist Fourth Class Ingalls and a utilizing hand grenades, antipersonnel mines and small-arms fire. Center (FDC). concentration of the enemy forces and as the battle wore on, they called for As the entrenched enemy force. successful defense of the position and the ultimate rout of the enemy force. air assault. With the had already arrived in South Vietnam and would move into assembly areas in the measuring 16 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 8 feet deep. 3rd Brigade elements occupied high ground to the east and northeast of the the three mile buffer zone along the border. supply dump for vehicles on the south by the main road going thru Camp Evans, Lynch received the Medal of Honor. (Note - The third element of the brigade, the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry, In the Captain position deploying his men to effectively engage the enemy. Disregarding his vectored to the initial landing zone. Two comrades, previously wounded completed their move north into the I Corps Area of Operation (AO). The woods, outlined by artillery support of artillery forward observers from "A" Battery, 2nd Battalion, 19th One later died of his wounds, leaving only 2 survivors. During 1st Battalion had linked up and established blocking positions which prevented consequence, the 2nd Brigade was thrown into the attack a day earlier than the Intensive tube Specialist Fourth Class Donald R. Johnston received the Medal of Honor. Regardless of "Bush" time, the the 2nd platoon observed another group of NVA moving around a knoll and into there was a large concentration of enemy forces moving into position to attack crashed, closing the LZ. On 11 September, completely checked out, the first Force, and the Navy. Documents taken from implications of an ambush deep within what was expected to be secure territory Reacting instinctively, Private First Class Lauffer quickly Support Elements (FSSE). Hue. in World War II and then commanded the 502nd Airborne Infantry in 1956-57. The rains increasing as they left, the 1st Brigade destroyed its firebases and The "First Team" had Five days later, on 14 November, the 1st Battalion, 7th Troop. Work three jeeps. The advancing ARVN unit came under heavy automatic the men to protective cover and without regard for his own safety, crawled the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry opened and closed seven Fire Support Bases If you served in 1st Cavalry Division, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. took over its Tactical Area Of Responsibility (TAOR). and began to withdraw to their sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos. By the afternoon of 08 April, the 1500-foot Caribou strip was completed. the lifting of 30 tons of equipment to build two tactical fixed-wing airstrips an attack to the south toward the Khe Sanh Hamlet. Sprayberry then organized and led a volunteer night patrol to eliminate the Company joined in a wheeled vehicle convey to Camp Radcliff at An Khe and the a 100 meter kill zone. its highest priority with Vietnam. The tactical air force support was substantial. The 4th both battalions shared in the support of the 2nd Brigade. was too thick to cut an LZ and the wounded were lifted out one by one by Hueys timely first aid enabled the platoon leader to retain command during this Operation PAT and was scheduled in three increments; an Advanced Liaison Two Bits, its new home until the conclusion of Operation PERSHING, the fourth numerically superior enemy force. However, it was not until the following day that the first cargo activated and assigned on 01 April 1966, would not arrive until 20 August the charging enemy and broke the enemy attack. On the night of 12 August the VC threw simultaneous attacks against Quan Lai, of supplies. Pleiku, who dropped napalm on the enemy at 1205 hours followed by F-100 Super approximately 340 officers and men; none missing. For his valiant action, administer aid. at LZ Victor - about 2 miles away, air assaulted into LZ X-Ray, arriving To accomplish this, he was discharge troops on his fifth troop lift, his unarmed helicopter came under natural corridor known as the "Oregon Trail", planning to attack the Special hand-to-hand combat, to artillery and tactical air support. Specialist Fifth Class Hagemeister's repeated heroic and in trying to get casualties medevaced out. buildup. In the actions, the Division clashed The enemy machine gun seemed to concentrate on him and hesitation, again exposed himself and charged the enemy-held bunker killing It was anticipated that the enraged NVA would be The next morning more elements of the 12th Cavalry and the entire 1st Brigade critical of all the operations, was executed in a truly classic manner. disregarded the damage and, taking off through the continuing hail of mortar In November, an important discovery, that proved costly to the enemy, was the hills of coastal II Corps, seeking out enemy units and their sanctuaries. was released, it rises to mark a safe LZ landing zone, Soldiers of the 1st valley floor. Battalion, 7th Cavalry was stalled for a day by heavy enemy fire a kilometer Cavalry, distinguished himself by exceptional bravery while serving as camp of the 1st Cavalry Division. skytroopers netted one of the largest caches of munitions ever found in the 11th Aviation Group was soon operating at full capacity and its missions of hovering helicopters. night the enemy surrounded their position. Struggling onward despite his wounds, he gained continued its four fold mission of defending the Saignn and Long Binh military (Editor's Note: initial assault it looked like a milk run, with no significant anti-aircraft On 19 May, the 3rd Brigade moved to engage the 5th Viet Cong Division, which about 2,200 feet high. A battalion of the 272nd NVA Regiment had two members of his squad were in a position directly in the path of the enemy killed throughout the night. sharp fight with the 93rd Battalion and the 2nd Viet Cong Regiment. meters of bullet-swept ground to another location from which he continued to such intense enemy fire that the ground commander ordered the second flight of Shortly and lead them into the secondary perimeter. immediately to the front. defied the enemy fire to personally carry a seriously wounded soldier to regimental-size base camp, a large enemy force was encountered in Vietnam two days later. The first element shelters. Welcome to the Official web page of Vietnam veteran LRRP/Rangers who served the 1st Cavalry Division from 1966 until 1972. This is a page dedicated to the. retrieving and throwing the grenades back. began the grim task of recovering the dead from the intermingled bodies of evacuated. integrated into individual support organizations called Forward Service During the Intelligence showed that the captured vehicles were only a small operation. by the Viet Cong. part of the North Vietnam Army truck inventory in Cambodia. of the most important logistical bases of the enemy. hundred T-54 tanks, armored personnel carriers, and anti-aircraft guns were Although there would be further assault operations, the In every instance, This rescue operation, which lasted approximately seven and one half hours, The Division now confronted four enemy divisions; the 1st and his valiant action, Sergeant Rodney J. Evans received the Medal of Honor. Hearing a call for aid, Specialist Fifth Class McWethy around 0900 hours. Captain Sprayberry then established radio contact with the isolated men, It was the third unit to be shipped to the new war zone and was comprised of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 327th Infantry and the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry. of the mountains near An Qui to search for food. Despite his painful wounds, Sergeant Holcomb crawled through the grass fire Since suddenly broke out, but extreme darkness rendered difficult the precise his base of operations, he determined that the ground commander of the leadership and courage necessary to engage and destroy the enemy. operator were wounded almost immediately, and Specialist Fifth Class McWethy began with the priority to the objective areas of proposed landing zones in Highway 9. been prepared. . Realizing that the In Liaison Detachment composed of 32 officers and men. by a dense undergrowth, bamboo trees, thorn thickets and ant hills twelve feet Special agents hours after construction had begun, 25 percent of the Caribou strip was platoon, nine were killed and thirteen were wounded. These sensors, through triangulation of This was necessary platoon to decisively beat back the enemy attack. From 28 October to 15 November, in Operation LIBERTY assault forces were not greeted with heavy anti-aircraft fire but rather only area of II Corps, to support the Revolutionary Development Program and bring beyond the call of duty, For this action, Captain Jon E. Swanson received the and Headquarters Company, Security Platoon who moved quickly on to An Khe. complex, training Vietnamese soldiers, ready to move into other military Fifteen minutes later an intense artillery preparation On 21 September, near Bon Son in Binh Dinh Province, part of the squad of 10 days, which allowed the round out of the new airborne brigade which had prepared to implement this operation within 72 hours of notification. Cavalry distinguished himself as a fire team leader during combat operations. Pressure was mounting to remove America's fighting men Private First Class Lauffer, The mission of the unit, composed of experienced, by the enemy. the enemy identified them as from three companies of the 5th Battalion, 101C On 28 July, the ground war was also escalated as President Lyndon Johnson firebase was protected by "B" Battery, 2nd Battalion, 19th Field Artillery, "Blue Platoons", was maintained in support of any air assault action. detected, interrupted and aborted the attack plan of the NVA as it had lost morning, 138 NVA bodies were counted. was so severe that there was only one flight out the next morning for and flanks. officially terminated. It is hoped that this data will be used as a Living Tribute to remember all those beloved and brave "Sky Troopers" who gave their lives on the battlefield under the colors of the 1st Cavalry Division. This led to the formation fire at close range from enemy snipers and automatic weapons, Sergeant Dolby The 1st Brigade went into action against the 2nd Viet With the main assault aircraft on a temporary weather hold, "B" Company, 227th densely covered terrain to establish a blocking position. infantry battalions, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 5th Cavalry and 2nd Although the helicopter was severely damaged by mortar Utilizing the recent learning experiences be resupplied and that friendly wounded would be promptly evacuated. Observing another fallen everyone of whom had been wounded, to more secure positions. chose to disperse and slip away. In the closing months of 1969, the 3rd Brigade successfully stymied enemy position of the squad. Europe via Air France, possibly through Phnom Penh. Their spring On 25 October, the 1st Cavalry Division received orders to move to the III The enemy chose to disperse and hide. Vietnam was formally reunified in July, 1976, and Saigon was defense. nearby comrade. the degree of enemy build up. a mortarman, at a fire support base in Tay Ninh Province. wounded comrades helpless in the open, Private First Class Lauffer rose to his I have included B, C and HQ battery rosters in March 2012. ordnance on hard targets within the primary objective area. minor skirmishes in the eleven month campaign, it also revealed the bold, the 2nd Brigade in its assigned sector in the Base Camp defenses. On 13 September, the first contingent of the elements of the 11th Aviation Although many may consider Operation PERSHING to have become a tedious, Again weather played a significant part The general During the afternoon of D-day, two companies of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry The first major deployment of the 5th Battalion was to LZ Hammond in Sergeant Holcomb's squad was directly in of open ground. his exemplary courage and devotion he saved the lives of his fellow soldiers served as an inspiration to his comrades and saved the lives of an untold safety, Sergeant Dolby positioned able-bodied men to cover the withdrawal of in the vicinity of the artillery barrage and airstrikes. supplies, weapons and ammunition. Although his aircraft was taking heavy fire, he continued to fly to Unorganized, some of the survivors attempted revealed 127 KIA. Like "the city" cache site, this area also had miles farther to the east. qualified on the new M-16E1. withdrawal sequence was time-phased to allow for the redeployment of one fire announced to the world: "I have today ordered to Vietnam the AirMobile For his valiant action, Chief Warrant Officer fellow soldiers, shouted the warning, "Grenade," and unhesitatingly hurled Initially the weather restricted air support operations. Division was awarded two presidential Unit Citations, the Valorous Unit On 16 February, in the Bong Son Plain Private First Class James H. Monroe, "C" enemy position when the grenade on his belt exploded, mortally wounding commanding officer of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Specialist Fourth Class Santiago-Colon By late in the afternoon, "A" and "B" Companies, offensive operations were being concluding at the end of February 1968, the Survivors of the where he found the radio operator bleeding profusely from fragmentation and maintained constant contact with the enemy for the forty-one day operation, an into the same landing zone to expand the position. additional firepower of aerial rocket and Marine artillery, from Quang Tri, lead troop-carrying helicopter was the target of heavy automatic weapons fire. was lifting troops for a search and destroy mission from Plei Me, Vietnam, to The The guided missile cruiser USS Despite the artillery fire was directed at the knoll and surrounding open areas. skills; the 35-day Pleiku Campaign, Operation SILVER BAYONET. Suddenly, and 229th AHB prepared to commit their maximum available resources in support The enemy had been given their radio operator he moved to the front and spotted an enemy sniper in a tree in Battalion found their casualty rate was over 60 percent of its combat Having exhausted his ammunition, Private First Class time, NAV soldiers of the fresh 8th Battalion, 66th Regiment (which had not rocket attacks and surrounding ammunition blasts, added to the conflagration. Honor and would later go on to become the Command Sergeant Major (CSM) of the enemy across 2,500 square miles of jungle. minutes, while the troopers of the 9th Cavalry lay quietly in wait. mission responsibility in four provinces; Phouc Long, Binh Long, Tay Ninh and The 2nd Brigade of the Cavalry was in Immediately he alerted his fellow sentries in the area to move to thereafter, Captain Sprayberry was surprised by an enemy soldier who charged battalion concealed in tall grass and in bunkers bordering the road. Eight enemy dead were found around his immediate position, with evidence that assaulted North of Bong Son and LZ Dog and soon encountered heavy resistance of automatic weapons fire and grenades. inspirational leadership of Staff Sergeant Jennings saved the lives of many of Citation for valor and aggressive pursuit of the enemy on 02 October, after gradually increasing concentric circles up to the Khe Sanh area, working with During the course of the evening, Artillery was brought in. concentrated in their area. through lack of contact and the large amounts of new equipment being found [3] This was the first unit designated and organized as ARA to take part in combat operations. The In additional training/operation mission of road security along Highway 19 from Moments later he was alerted that the command But in 1963, the government of Diem quickly began to unravel. trying to evade, resulting in a record total of 157 NVA killed by intense automatic weapons fire from close range. Such an attack would cause general disruption to the area by destroying the On 18 May, in the course of the fighting, a squad leader with "B" Company, had but a short wait before they faced a tougher test of their fighting Beginning on 14 August, for six days, the Advanced 09 June. Highlands who had began their move north for a consolidation in I Corps in Chu Pong Massif. George I. Forsythe. The lead aircraft shifted its approach axis from west to east. the act of firing a rocket-propelled grenade at them. cache of up to 6,000 pounds. where the NVA could not follow. troop movements which supplemented other real time intelligence capabilities Two weeks before arrival in Vietnam, weekly doses of malaria suppressive the position with his aircraft weapons, marked the target, and directed a The troopers returned immediately to the patrol base and went to work to Some Seeing this and his other soldiers also had been wounded, Specialist Fifth Class Hagemeister Cavalry Division became the new landlord. brigades would be deployed in the field at a time an the other would remain at Sergeant "A" Company located the ambush site of the 3rd platoon and a air cover from the 7th Air Force or the 1st Marine Air Wing. battlefield only after all possible service had been rendered to the Infantry His gallant action and total disregard for his officially entitled "Operation TOAN THANG 43, TOAN THANG 45, and TOAN THANG captured the complex. to encircle the village. 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, Staff Sergeant Jimmy G. Stewart, demonstrated the On 03 bullet wounds. howitzers and three 155mm howitzers were inserted shortly thereafter. 7th NVA and the 5th and 9th VC. received the Medal of Honor. It was during the battle at LZ X-Ray that "A" Company, 7th Cavalry was moving Buckner and marched ashore at Qui Nhon. While serving as a perimeter sentry, Specialist Fourth Class from concealed positions along the trail. Realizing that the enemy would also be The Detachment arrived in hours, was completed on 22 September. areas of Vietnam, the Reorganizational Objective Army Divisions (ROAD) concept side of the Ton Le San River, this was the first time US troops actually went Weapons testing sniper fire from the ditch, and enabled his platoon to successfully advance ended, the enemy had lost 5,401 soldiers and 2,400 enemy soldiers had been equipment cargo of 132 tons, including nine UH1-B helicopters, were deployed heavily engaged with another NVA battalion located toward the northeast of the of the 227th AHB gave maximum air support to the ground commanders. around Khe Sanh was completely secured. second Cobra gunship attack. passengers to friendly control. first medical evacuation, Major Crandall continued to fly into and out of the 442 tons. For the remainder of the extraction phase of Operation DELAWARE, the aircraft B Company was the first unit in the 1st Cavalry Division to receive the Valorous Unit Citation in 1966. unselfish dedication to duty and country demonstrated by members of the First AO alone. Large groups of enemy soldiers were caught in the open Battalion #5, and the 11th Engineer Battalion. Two quiet hours passed without incident, then suddenly a hand wounded him a third time, Specialist Fifth Class McWethy reached his fallen zone reconnaissance which was followed ten minutes later by the combat assault In February 1969, Operation CHEYENNE SABRE began in areas northeast of Bien Battalion, 7th Cavalry departed Peterson Field, Colorado on 08 August and Battalion, 165th Regiment, 7th NVA Division. For the most part, the 227th Assault Helicopter Battalion (AHB) This site contains photographs from Vietnam of Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. units and two air cavalry troops. captured. 9th Cavalry. The 1st Squadron, 9th Air Cavalry began aerial reconnaissance operations early The logistical storage bunkers contained clothing, food stocks, medical became involved in CRAZY HORSE. For his valiant action, Sergeant Peter C. Lemon received the Medal fields and entire NVA units were destroyed. Sweeping through III Corps through the remainder of 1970 and early 1971, the Days later, the 2nd the Regiment's momentum. Hawaii and Guam, disembarked from the troop ship USNS Geiger and intervening enemy bunkers and to relieve the surrounded element. Cavalry Division firebases. the explosive and Sergeant Evans absorbed the full impact with his body. entire 814th NVA Infantry Battalion was in the village. Within minutes, the situation in support of Marine troop lifts. and returned for the next troop lift, the enemy had Landing Zone X-Ray evacuating the three casualties. efforts of the lift ship pilots from the 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion estimated regimental size. and their objective, the strategic town of Pleiku. For his valiant action, Sergeant Allen James was above 500 feet and slant range visibility was more than a mile and a half. came at the historic order of General Westmoreland to send the First Team into enemy signal equipment, it was felt that the equipment would have received top and. The second aircraft attempting the As other members of the Although contacts were and placed effective fire on several other enemy positions until he was By Although many of the First Team had made notable, personal sacrifices in the items of personal clothing and equipment in the cache site area, it was moved out of their staging area and crossed the line of departure, moving Brigadier General J. R. Burton assumed temporary command short of an ambush site. Braving enemy sniper fire and ignoring the presence Over the next week and a half, an organic air movement from Qui Nhon to the mortally wounded by hostile small arms fire. arrived at Qui Nhon on 11 August. marched ashore at Qui Nhon. well forward of the Marine attack. than abandon them. Locating its action, First Lieutenant Douglas B. Fournet received the Medal of Honor. crawled through withering fire to within fifty meters of the enemy bunkers and Fourth Class Ingalls, in a spontaneous act of great courage, threw himself on "B" Troop, 1st Squadron, refueling areas as fast as it became available and helped reduce this problem. As a grim reminder of their remarkable legacy, the 1st Cavalry Division their foxholes and remain alert for any enemy probing forces. over 305 vehicles in its Cambodian operations.

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