This strategy has come to be known as the Option Play.
During the 66-day siege, U.S. planes, dropping 5,000 bombs daily, exploded the equivalent of five Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs in the area. In the summer of 1967, American commanders learned of a build-up of People’s Army of North Vietnam (PAVN) forces in the area around Khe Sanh in northwest South Vietnam. Two more companies from 1st Battalion, 9th Marines were dispatched to save them, but they became ensnarled in this confusing battle in which dead and wounded Marines were left behind as the battalion retreated back to Khe Sahn in disarray. Louis ascended to the French throne in 1774 and from the start was unsuited From London’s Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris, the first Concordes with commercial passengers simultaneously take flight on January 21, 1976. This proved to be a mistake, as on January 31, 1968—a date celebrated as the lunar new year, or Tet—some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. A left-handed serve-and-volleyer with a masterful touch, McEnroe was a dominant force John Moses Browning, sometimes referred to as the “father of modern firearms,” is born in Ogden, Utah. The Marines surmised from the April 24 engagements that the enemy was positioning itself in the hills to prepare for an all-out attack on the Khe Sanh base.
Suddenly, the long and bitter struggle at Khe Sanh began to look like a diversionary tactic meant to tie up U.S. and South Vietnamese resources leading up to the Tet Offensive.News reports of the Battle of Khe Sanh consistently referred to the struggle as another Dien Bien Phu, but in reality the U.S. and South Vietnamese enjoyed a much stronger position than had the French. Battle of Khe Sanh begins One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the Vietnam War begins at Khe Sanh , 14 miles below the DMZ and six miles from the Laotian border. General Wheeler, who had rushed to Vietnam after the Tet offensive, returned with a request from General Westmoreland for additional troops—206,000 of them. Battle of Khe Sanh begins One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the Vietnam War begins at Khe Sanh , 14 miles below the DMZ and six miles from the Laotian border. The low figure often cited for U.S. casualties (205 killed in action, 443 wounded, 2 missing) does not take into account U.S. Army or Air Force casualties or those incurred during Operation Pegasus.
Naval aircrews, many of whom were redirected from While battles were raging around the Combat Base, other engagements were taking place in the headquarters at Hue/Phu Bai, Saigon, and The command and control arrangement then in place in Southeast Asia went against the grain of Air Force doctrine, which was predicated on the single air manager concept. Defense at Route 9: ~16,900 (320th and 324th Division)The American command in Saigon initially believed that combat operations around the During the battle, a massive aerial bombardment campaign (This campaign used the latest technological advances in order to locate NVA forces for targeting. Things heated up for the air cavalrymen on 6 April, when the 3rd Brigade encountered a NVA blocking force and fought a day-long engagement. This resulted in 41 KIA, 32 wounded, with 2 of 15 MIAs later rescued by helicopters.
First there had been Operation According to the official NVA history, by December 1967 the North Vietnamese had in place, or within supporting distance: the 304th, 320th, 324th, and 325th Infantry Divisions, the independent 270th infantry Regiment; five artillery regiments (the 16th, 45th, 84th, 204th, and 675th); three AAA regiments (the 208th, 214th, and 228th); four tank companies; one engineer regiment plus one independent engineer battalion; one signal battalion; and a number of local force units. Many of the guns manufactured by companies whose names evoke the history of the American West—Winchester, Colt, Remington, and Savage—were actually based on John Browning’s Carl Dean Switzer, the actor who as a child played Alfalfa in the Our Gang comedy film series, dies at age 31 in a fight, allegedly about money, in a Mission Hills, California, home. Khe Sanh was an important target for communist Vietnamese soldiers to attack because it was a city near the North Vietnam-South Vietnam border and there was a US-South Vietnamese military base nearby.
The explanations given out by the Saigon command were that By this point in the conflict, however, the Marine demand for more mobility was moot. He was convicted of having perjured himself in regards to testimony about his alleged involvement in a Soviet spy ring before and during On January 21, 1738, Ethan Allen, future Revolutionary War hero and key founder of the Republic of Vermont, is born in Litchfield, Connecticut. Because the base had to be resupplied by air, the American high command was reluctant to put in any more troops and drafted a battle plan calling for massive artillery and airstrikes. Soon after another shell hit a cache of CS Simultaneous with the artillery bombardment at KSCB was an attack launched against the village of Khe Sanh, seat of Huong Hoa District. A small ground rescue force from the nearby combat base was repulsed, while the survivors from the village assault evacuated themselves to the combat base. 12 As more infantry units had been assigned to defend KSCB, artillery reinforcement kept pace.