David
03-10-2005, 09:09 AM
PREBELLUM:
March 9, 1945 (25th day of the 1st month, Year of the Rooster [At Dau]): Shortly before midnight, Japanese soldiers enter the governor general's palace and arrest Admiral Decoux. Simultaneous attacks secure all the major administrative buildings, public utilities, and radio stations for the Japanese. Caught off guard, whole regiments of the French throughout the country surrender without a shot, though many others fight bravely even when encircled and outnumbered. A few hundred French troops escape to the mountains where they are surprised to find a well-coordinated network of guerrillas, experienced in helping Allied soldiers, especially downed pilots, escape from the Japanese. True to their promise to aid any Frenchman willing to fight Japanese aggression, the Viet Minh care for many Frenchmen, helping them escape into China.
SECOND INDOCHINA WAR:
March 9, 1966 (18th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Horse [Binh Ngo]) (US Counteroffensive): Operation Silver City starts in War Zone D.
March 9, 1966 (18th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Horse [Binh Ngo])(US Coutneroffensive): A Shau SF Camp update: Early in the morning, guards at the perimeter of the SF camp at A Shau hear digging just outside the wire. Thinking the enemy might be digging assault trenches, they open fire with M79 grenade launchers and then 81mm mortar fire. The digging stops, but a few hours later, the NVA responds with 60mm, 82mm and 120mm mortar fire. The camp defenders take to the bunkers, thinking that the attack will only last a few minutes, but when it's still coming in two hours later, they know a massed ground attack is on the way. Two companies of NVA infantry led by sappers carrying bangalore torpedoes soon charge the camp. Defenders push them back, but they are cut off from outside help, as the camp is beyond the range of any available artillery and located in a foggy cloudy area that makes fighter-bomber support next to impossible.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than]) (US Tet Counteroffensive): A/7/17 Cavalry sees action in Kontum Province.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than]) (US Tet Counteroffensive): In Kien Phong Province, ARVN's 2/16th, 9th Infantry, takes heavy fire from a Viet Cong battalion.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than]) (US Tet Counteroffensive)(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): Infantrymen from C/4/12th Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade discovered the bodies of nine enemy soldiers while conducting a reconnaissance-in-force operation three miles east of Camp Frenzell-Jones.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than]) (US Tet Counteroffensive)(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): D/1/18th Infantry locates a 12,900-pound enemy rice cache near Di An, about nine miles northeast of Saigon.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than])(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): "Helicopter Crew Aids Filipino Crash Victims"
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than])(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): "Air Controller Directs 9th Division To VC Supplies"
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than])(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): "Gunships Kill Over 200 VC"
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than])(US Tet Counteroffensive): The enemy has the US radar control site, Lima Site 85, in Laos surrounded, with four full battalions of the NVA 766th Regiment and one Pathet Lao battalion within striking range of this site, also known as "Commando Club." Skirmishes are happening almost constantly at the lower elevations of the mountain it's situated on.
March 9, 1970 (2nd day of the 2nd month, Year of the Dog [Canh Tuat]) (US Winter-Spring 1970): 7 RAR deploys on Operation Finschafen.
March 9, 1945 (25th day of the 1st month, Year of the Rooster [At Dau]): Shortly before midnight, Japanese soldiers enter the governor general's palace and arrest Admiral Decoux. Simultaneous attacks secure all the major administrative buildings, public utilities, and radio stations for the Japanese. Caught off guard, whole regiments of the French throughout the country surrender without a shot, though many others fight bravely even when encircled and outnumbered. A few hundred French troops escape to the mountains where they are surprised to find a well-coordinated network of guerrillas, experienced in helping Allied soldiers, especially downed pilots, escape from the Japanese. True to their promise to aid any Frenchman willing to fight Japanese aggression, the Viet Minh care for many Frenchmen, helping them escape into China.
SECOND INDOCHINA WAR:
March 9, 1966 (18th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Horse [Binh Ngo]) (US Counteroffensive): Operation Silver City starts in War Zone D.
March 9, 1966 (18th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Horse [Binh Ngo])(US Coutneroffensive): A Shau SF Camp update: Early in the morning, guards at the perimeter of the SF camp at A Shau hear digging just outside the wire. Thinking the enemy might be digging assault trenches, they open fire with M79 grenade launchers and then 81mm mortar fire. The digging stops, but a few hours later, the NVA responds with 60mm, 82mm and 120mm mortar fire. The camp defenders take to the bunkers, thinking that the attack will only last a few minutes, but when it's still coming in two hours later, they know a massed ground attack is on the way. Two companies of NVA infantry led by sappers carrying bangalore torpedoes soon charge the camp. Defenders push them back, but they are cut off from outside help, as the camp is beyond the range of any available artillery and located in a foggy cloudy area that makes fighter-bomber support next to impossible.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than]) (US Tet Counteroffensive): A/7/17 Cavalry sees action in Kontum Province.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than]) (US Tet Counteroffensive): In Kien Phong Province, ARVN's 2/16th, 9th Infantry, takes heavy fire from a Viet Cong battalion.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than]) (US Tet Counteroffensive)(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): Infantrymen from C/4/12th Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade discovered the bodies of nine enemy soldiers while conducting a reconnaissance-in-force operation three miles east of Camp Frenzell-Jones.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than]) (US Tet Counteroffensive)(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): D/1/18th Infantry locates a 12,900-pound enemy rice cache near Di An, about nine miles northeast of Saigon.
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than])(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): "Helicopter Crew Aids Filipino Crash Victims"
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than])(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): "Air Controller Directs 9th Division To VC Supplies"
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than])(US Tet Counteroffensive) (AR): "Gunships Kill Over 200 VC"
March 9, 1968 (11th day of the 2nd month, Year of the Monkey [Mau Than])(US Tet Counteroffensive): The enemy has the US radar control site, Lima Site 85, in Laos surrounded, with four full battalions of the NVA 766th Regiment and one Pathet Lao battalion within striking range of this site, also known as "Commando Club." Skirmishes are happening almost constantly at the lower elevations of the mountain it's situated on.
March 9, 1970 (2nd day of the 2nd month, Year of the Dog [Canh Tuat]) (US Winter-Spring 1970): 7 RAR deploys on Operation Finschafen.