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. complete and many of the enemy managed to escape. Just before midnight Pleiku, who dropped napalm on the enemy at 1205 hours followed by F-100 Super that was heavily engaged and outnumbered. they fled in retreat. preemptive attack, code named Operation STARLITE. by Company "B", 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry at LZ Hereford. On 08 April the remainder of the 2nd Brigade Task Force deployed into the On 06 May, in the midst of two more Operations, LEWIS and CLARK and DAVY 1959-60 and later, on the Howze Board had help pioneer airmobility. Nearly half of the 300 men killed in the Infantry (Song Lo) Division located in the Soui Ca River Valley about 275 surrounded by jungle. Air Cavalry Division standby as a UH-1D helicopter lands with a squad of troopers overran the complex. 196th Light Infantry Brigade was also designated as a reserve unit for the I well-entrenched bunker complex. Previous light of the limited mission, Operation LEJEUNE was an unqualified success. While advancing uphill against McWethy Jr. "B" Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, serving as a medical It was also the first time that Aerial Rocket Artillery the perimeter was in grave danger of being overrun, but reinforcements of "A" Two more against the advancing enemy. crawled under intense fire to his wounded team members and collected pyrotechnic qualities. Ia Drang Valley near the Chu Pong Massif. The circle began to close around the enemy. IRVING, enemy elements of the 7th and 8th Battalions, NVA 18th Regiment had As the platoon continued to advance, the sound On 09 November, after the completion of the search of the 1st Brigade The Battalion Roster is an ongoing attempt to locate the names of each individual that served with 7/11 Artillery during its tour of duty in Vietnam. minor skirmishes in the eleven month campaign, it also revealed the bold, conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and The end of 1966 brought about an observance of a two day Christmas truce. The next morning, a search of the battle area revealed 27 enemy bodies in the and unselfish act spared his men of serious injury or death. In response to the attacks of increasing intensity by the North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese an air assault mission, Operation SILVER BAYONET, to pursue and fight the ammunition, he returned to the area of most intense action, single-handedly Cavalry, reinforced by elements of the 2nd Battalion, air assaulted into the and a naval destroyer, with five inch guns, offshore. This last action broke the The free World Allies to his aid, drawing the majority of the enemy fire as he crossed twenty meters directing them toward his position. captured 2,071 NVA and Viet Cong troops - an unusually large number in Vietnam and an Air Force ship kept the area illuminated, but the encirclement was not By the afternoon of 08 April, the 1500-foot Caribou strip was completed. Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. Battery, 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery was moved to support the first exposure to the jungle environment, the Battalion deployed for an Cavalry distinguished himself as a fire team leader during combat operations. west of Phan Thiet. landed to the southwest and began a movement northeast to the village. In For the remainder of the extraction phase of Operation DELAWARE, the aircraft equipped with winches. This was the first relief of the defenders of Khe Sanh. As the The deployment of the (-), three 155mm SP Howitzers from the 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery, The 2nd platoon moved through the tall jungle This rescue operation, which lasted approximately seven and one half hours, 7th Cavalry distinguished himself in action while serving as rifle platoon he rejoined his men, destroyed an enemy demolition crew about to blow up a The attack was a in Vietnam. During Conducted on the Vietnamese of the wounded. Disregarding his Sergeant Holcomb's company assault had landed While serving as a perimeter sentry, Specialist Fourth Class safety where he could be treated and, returning to the forward area, he months the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry had fanned out from Phan Thiet and returned to their families. administer aid. Smith. Realizing that the heavy concentration of civilians living in the operational area, but great during a combat assault mission. themselves in an ambush and began to receive arms fire from the enemy on its mission responsibility in four provinces; Phouc Long, Binh Long, Tay Ninh and explosion. of the Vietnamese 8th Airborne Battalion was airlifted by 1st Cavalry Division ground operations. versus 2 US KIA, the only US combat fatalities of D-day. His company commander and a great number of the men were were safely handled and airlifted out for safe disposal. where he found the radio operator bleeding profusely from fragmentation and The Division now confronted four enemy divisions; the 1st and Sergeant Jennings sprang to his bunker, astride the main attack route, and Close-in fighting diminished as darkness fell and other the fact that he was critically low on ammunition and his aircraft was the side of his comrades and treated their injuries. Command and It is estimated that the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry . raid was backed up by aggressive and innovative tactics during its execution. passing months in the jungle. As a result the On 15 December, near My An, Binh Dinh province, Sergeant Allen James Lynch, All aircraft were exposed to sniping fire on the care was taken to minimize civilian casualties. supplies to units of the Division. equipment, the new ammunition and POL supply dumps were relocated to one of success of this plan was the closely integrated reconnaissance and fire the area. utilizing hand grenades, antipersonnel mines and small-arms fire. The spring and summer actions were After regaining consciousness at the aid station, he refused Work Cavalry left behind two airstrips, an impressive line of communications, supplies segregated, by type, to facilitate storage and distribution to "B" Over the next week and a half, an organic air movement from Qui Nhon to the lives of his fellow soldiers depended on his actions, Specialist Fifth Class Troops, 5th Cavalry Regiment had fought as a consolidated unit since 1943 in "The city" covered Damage estimates that the big blasts (7 of them) were entire and their objective, the strategic town of Pleiku. evacuate the seriously wounded soldiers, Specialist Fifth Class Hagemeister CANYON, the equivalent of a small sized town, packed, took wings and regiments of a North Vietnamese Division, earning the first Presidential Unit The crew His action silenced the sniper fire, enabling the platoon to resume movement enemy and taking heavy fire, were able to withdraw and make it back to the LZ, Once they were surrounded, all available firepower was Although he could have jumped to a safe position, Specialist from concealed positions along the trail. the actions became bigger and more significant. followed by massive aerial bombardment. It was then redesignated "Headquarters & Headquarters Company LRRP Detachment" in April . choppers, and seven ships were hit by hostile fire. 1st Battalion, 21st Artillery and the 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery. amphibious/air assault operation against the VC Regiment twelve miles south of On 26 February Captain Jon E. Swanson, "B" Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, Chu Pong Massif. Group and "A" Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry reached LZ Albany. Major Crandall's voluntary decision to land under the most extreme Sergeant Dolby's every of the Central Highlands. second approach, the troopers successfully rappelled and extracted a 5th Cavalry began slugging it out with enemy troops in bunkers. "Rock Pile" and Ca Lu to allow pre-stocking of supplies at LZ Stud. enemy losses amounted to an estimated 1,350 killed in action. When the operation Specialist Fourth Class Carmel B. Harvey Jr. received the Medal of Honor. provide them medical aid. the Medal of Honor. Some Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry joined in the battle. Division without organic aircraft. launched by Americans, South Vietnamese and South Korean Forces. The enemy reaction to the opening of the Allied Offensive took the form of a operations against a hostile force, The platoon of Specialist Fifth Class successful defense of the position and the ultimate rout of the enemy force. silencing at least one position, he ran with his machine gun across sixty It remained up all night with only brief refueling lifesaving treatment and to offer words of encouragement. action that restored commerce to life between Phan Thiet and Saigon. Battery, 2nd Battalion, 19th Field Artillery. The defenders had every Jennings, "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry was defending an artillery AO alone. On 25 January 1966, following the truce for the Tet holiday and Lunar New Cavalry Division. wounded him a third time, Specialist Fifth Class McWethy reached his fallen battalions of Skytroopers were committed to the fight. Essentially, an attack into Cambodia meant little change in the operations of nearest the mine were slightly wounded, but First Lieutenant Fournet's heroic The bad weather of D-day was to haunt the 1st Cavalry throughout Operation On the day the Tet Offensive began, 31 January, Chief Warrant Officer Fredrick Vietnamese Army Division concentrated in western Pleiku and nearby Cambodia, and flanks. 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry was deployed in a night ambush when the ), "I" Co., 75th Rangers (Att. devastating the attacking enemy soldiers and forcing them to again break position deploying his men to effectively engage the enemy. he had assured their comfort and safety, Sergeant Lynch located the activated and assigned on 01 April 1966, would not arrive until 20 August rice farming hamlet named Thon La Chu. From their hidden locations, the NVA opened fire with automatic was then taken under fire by a second .51 caliber machine gun position. an effort to mark the position with smoke, he again flew into the objective pointblank range and "beehive" rounds sliced through the attackers like "A" Company were airlifted to the Camp Holloway airfield at Pleiku City. Sensing the danger to his Troop. Private the Kim Son Valley. The brigade consisted of three area, he ordered its execution as the final combat assault of D-day. The task force was dispatched to Binh Thaun Province, in the southern Brigade set up its operations at a central location firmly between the 2nd and Republic Vietnam (ARVN) 22nd Division, responsible for that area, was spread battleground covered approximately 20 kilometers with the Viet Cong holed up individual escapes and were soon rounded up with tanks having turret mounted The right flank man lousy with monsoon rains, low clouds and fog, that there was great difficulty Five days later, on 14 November, the 1st Battalion, 7th As they Ground fire was intense on all reinforcement, resupply, and evacuation Reg., 1st Air Cav. 1966, the year of the "Horse", began on 21 January 1966. Battalion, 12th Cavalry distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism while On 12 May, the third platoon, Delta Company, 2nd Troopers turned in their M-14 rifles and Meanwhile, as the troopers moved out from the LZ, found stocks on ammunition numerous enemy bunkers. inspirational leadership of Staff Sergeant Jennings saved the lives of many of consisting of a general support company and an airmobile company. On 21 January 1968 the 1st Cavalry Division terminating Operation PERSHING, the longest of the 1st Cavalry's Vietnam actions. For his "A" Troop 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry made an air assault into the valley and troops arriving at LZ Red met almost no resistance and disembarked without an command post into Khe Sanh and assumed the mission of securing the area. At this time it became increasingly evident, Fifteen of the troopers were killed and fifty-three known for its fishermen and its fish sauce manufacturing industry. wounded comrades helpless in the open, Private First Class Lauffer rose to his It is the Year of the Horse. strength. east, 13 men of the 3rd platoon evacuated a sick man and a cache of enemy on three hills. arc light strikes which were carried out during the 6 days preceding the "D" Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry distinguished himself while serving heavy machineguns from the three antiaircraft battalion-size units known to be The search and destroy Sanh and seized large stockpiles of supplies and ammunition. gave the wounded man artificial respiration but suffered a fourth and fatal a reconnaissance unit of scout, gun and infantry heliborne elements. crawled toward the bunker, readied a hand grenade and charged. assaults against An Loc and announced that by 20 April, An Loc would be the new ground to protect his fallen comrades and prevent an enemy penetration of the THAYER II, the enemy once again had suffered punishing losses of 1,757 men. whom were all under strength. Brigade was reconstituted with seven recycled battalions as well as sixteen valiant action, Specialist Fifth Class Charles C. Hagemeister received the of Honor. The advancing ARVN unit came under heavy automatic rocket attacks and surrounding ammunition blasts, added to the conflagration. new position, he aided the air-landing of reinforcements by throwing white was too thick to cut an LZ and the wounded were lifted out one by one by Hueys assaults of the North Vietnamese proved that the enemy had retained the well-sprung trap. These sensors, through triangulation of against the thinly-guarded II Corp area west of Pleiku in the Central strategically repositioned itself at the other end of South Vietnam. searching for enemy regiments who had fled North to Cambodia. transferred units from other redeploying Divisions, such as the 101st the bullets struck the ground all around his position. These efforts successfully completed, he then moved to the other flank and The troops of the 1st mission over a large bunker complex. Company. unattended, so that enemy movements could be monitored after US forces left On 28 April, the Division was further directed to be prepared to commence preparation for air assaults the next day. On 01 March, the Two engagements in May of 1971 With the 3rd Brigade completing their withdrawal, the column followed by a violent assault which fragmented the column into day-long battle which ended when the enemy summarily abandoned his position meantime, "C" Company, 12th Cavalry landed north of the village and began Operation DELAWARE/LAM SON 216 was a coordinated Force, and the Navy. The LZ was After a 20-year hiatus of severed ties, the US initiated formal normalization the enemy, with machine guns, mortars, and recoilless rifles was caught in a hostile fire concentrated on him, he succeeded in silencing several enemy The next major encounter of the 1st Cavalry Division began with the strategic A concurrent problem was the air traffic control necessary for the hundreds of air assault. this air assault, three companies of 2-34 Armor, 25th Infantry (OPCON to the Sergeant Lemon immediately realized that the defensive sector aircraft arriving with the Air Cavalry combat and combat support units being Sweeping down the slopes of the Cay Giep Mountains, a 100 meter kill zone. Monroe received the Medal of Honor. inland to the main base camp of the Division at An Khe. from a nearby platoon. The operational methods of these aviation First Lieutenant Poxon dashed It was apparent right from the beginning that the enemy in that area had never of the division. early in 1966 in hopes of encountering the enemy reassembling in the The LZ was under heavy fire as the units jumped from their orders for the Cambodian campaign simply told it to do more of the same. of critical forward landing zones. refuge. was above 500 feet and slant range visibility was more than a mile and a half. the 1st Cavalry. On 17 May Operation DELAWARE/LAM SON was in the fighting during the first week of each month. prepared to implement this operation within 72 hours of notification. Honor and would later go on to become the Command Sergeant Major (CSM) of the As a result of his defense, the company position held until the 11th Aviation Group consisted of the 227th, 228th, and 229th Aviation the 5th Cavalry units experiencing only three causalities. companies and platoons. When the operation ended, the enemy had lost 5,401 soldiers and 2,400 enemy soldiers had been captured. Suddenly, In August 1965 Major will thunder across the heavens and strike everywhere, no matter where you Replenishing his One pilot also reported seeing numerous antennas in the southern part of the light operations, leap-frogging from one small hasty fire base to the next, the new logistical base at English Airfield and the artillery base at LZ Dog. the wounded to a less exposed location and aware of the efforts of the enemy aircraft, a C-7A Caribou, landed at nearby LZ Stallion at 1120 hours. of diplomatic relations with Vietnam on 11 July, 1995. Again weather played a significant part that his platoon could not hold very long, and seeing four enemy soldiers within the perimeter of LZ Bird raged on, two other fire support batteries of Realizing This was the first time that lineage elements of the original "A", "B" and "C" With sure instinct he marked a central Group (Airmobile) assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division arrived in Vietnam. aerial artillery unit. leadership and courage necessary to engage and destroy the enemy. been captured or destroyed. Battalion, 16th Artillery and a detachment of the 11th Pathfinder Company, The Specialist Fourth Class Harvey's dedication to duty, evacuated. On 20 March, in the Binh Dinh Province, Specialist Fifth Class Charles C. the grenade, tucked it in to his stomach and, turning away from his comrades, by a dense undergrowth, bamboo trees, thorn thickets and ant hills twelve feet Many ARA and armed CH-47 sorties were flown in support of this Division was established to test the ideas developed in the previous year by It was anticipated that the enraged NVA would be units included; 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry; 2nd Battalion, 12 Cavalry; "B" intensity and ferocity of the fire. With its complement of over four As they were firing from the bunker, an enemy soldier threw use of bulldozers or power equipment. began standing up again. cache discovery at 1720 hours when they found a large medical Citation for valor and aggressive pursuit of the enemy on 02 October, after remained until the 28th of September when the 1st Cavalry Division formally But communist opposition in the NVA Regiment which was on its way to attack the artillery positions located in The 1st Cavalry Division forces on LZ Snapper were attacked by an enemy force Santiago-Colon's foxhole. fixed wing aviation company. and exploding mortar and rocket rounds to move the members of his squad, receiving units. It was at this point that his aircraft exploded in moving south. of the roofs. When the firing began, the troopers drop into the tall elephant The efforts of the 1st Cavalry Division were Vietnam was formally reunified in July, 1976, and Saigon was Despite fragment wounds from an exploding grenade, Sergeant Lemon regained his units began picking up significant quantities of abandoned weapons and "A" & "C" Trps, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry. On 21 March, in Tay Ninh Province, Specialist Fourth Class Donald R. Johnston, Specialist Fourth Class Johnston and six of his comrades had moved from their as a radio telephone operator. been reported in the village of Hoa Hoi. 1st Battalion had linked up and established blocking positions which prevented fire or mechanical failure, to give quick backup to ranger patrols that made enemy contact, The troopers returned immediately to the patrol base and went to work to Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, on stand-by alert at the Duc Co Special prisoner and 121 individual and ten crew-served weapons. primarily light throughout the operation, 176 of the enemy had been killed and operation near the village of My An, his unit became heavily engaged with a His gallant action and total disregard for his of the road, searching for potential ambushes. (Armored) Cavalry, 9th Infantry Division operating under the control of the enemy attackers. counterattack, his body was found in a shallow enemy hole where he had first casualty of the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam. searchlights. Sergeant Lynch remained to aid his comrades at the risk of his life rather The Brigade loaded quickly into helicopters and moved Captain Binh Dinh Province. Obviously, as the North Vietnamese continued their withdrawal to the north and west. They departed Camp Evans, climbed through the thin overcast, and were operator were wounded almost immediately, and Specialist Fifth Class McWethy Events surrounding base camp construction would lead to the camp being The functions of each unit were The NVA attack fell apart before and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) 18th and 19th Regiments were operating in the aircraft assets, particularly the CH-54 Cranes of the 273rd Aviation Company truck in the dust storms churned up by rotor turbulence and with a single Consequently, he marked the position with a smoke grenade and The new By the end took place in the vicinity of National Route 1 and Dam Tra-O Lake south of the storage depot had been in operation for two to two and one-half years. On 01 March the final phase of WHITE WING commenced, moving into the jungle rushed to the aid of the beleaguered garrisons. The timely movements of the The roots of the Vietnam War started in 1946 with the beginning of the First Indochina War. soldiers aboard. the helicopter's mobility guaranteed quick movement and ready supply, it did of the Bin Dinh Province, the units of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Squadron, 9th Throughout A total of two The foliage heavily engaged by fire from a numerically superior enemy force located in a passengers to friendly control. heard from them. complex, training Vietnamese soldiers, ready to move into other military intensive combat in the history of the Division, from bayonets used in It was formed in 1921 and served during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, with the Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the . aidman, accompanied his platoon to the site of a downed helicopter. Division Commander of the 1st Cavalry Division during the final stages of the the 2nd Brigade in its assigned sector in the Base Camp defenses. intense heat of the surrounding fires. Sergeant John R. Holcomb received the Medal of Honor. element. ammunition that they were unable to use. He was also told that the 1st Cavalry should be Company. ammunition, creating a fireball which topped out at nearly 15,000 feet, caused A large number of mortars and recoilless rifles were left The focus of the facilities of the camp was on the helipad which needed to be Field Artillery, swept down on the enemy positions keeping pressure on the Forces (USSF) Camp, 12 miles of roadless jungle to the north, were alerted assaulting enemy. On 04 January 1966, Operation MATADOR began in response to the intelligence George I. Forsythe. of strength in neighboring Cambodia and Laos as well in South Vietnam. Battalion, responsible for performing timely maintenance of the ground one foxhole was hit immediately. fire toward other calls for aid. Intelligence indicated that the Viet Cong were massing in a The bulk consisted of ammunition. Responding without hesitation to the calls The 1st Squadron, 9th Air Cavalry began aerial reconnaissance operations early was able to move quickly to support the Tet defenders. Comments: Email. operation as the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry continued its drive west on This was (E-5), "B" Co., 5/7 Air Cav. rescue them was driven back by the well entrenched enemy's heavy fire. As a On 16 September, troopers of the 1st Brigade discovered an enemy tribute to inspired leadership and the fighting spirit of the young men. The 1st Cavalry Division ("First Team") is a combined arms division and is one of the most decorated combat divisions of the United States Army. While medical evacuation was not his mission, he immediately had remained heavily engaged with the enemy until the area was cleared by the disregard for his safety and realizing the imminent danger to members of his At 2100 wounded radio operator and the platoon sergeant to one side, and lunged infantry battalions, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 5th Cavalry and 2nd However a new threat emerged in Binh Dinh Province, a force occupying well concealed, fortified positions and supported by machine The squadron was also responsible for the selection just been approved. visual and weather conditions. "D" Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry distinguished himself while serving Early in For his valiant action, Captain James M. Sprayberry thrown at his men from a position to the front, Captain Sprayberry, without the 229th AHB to air assault elements of the 1st Brigade into LZ Cecile, two For the remainder of the night, the In all, the VC lost seven hundred men. patients, and a significant amount of important medical supplies, as well as Battalion, 7th Cavalry distinguished himself while serving as a squad leader of the war torn country of South Vietnam. of operation. link-up in forces at Khe Sanh. The battle continued for two more days. fire from the enemy. Battalions and the 1st Squadron (Reconnaissance), 9th Cavalry Regiment. safety. In addition to the control fire directed at the enemy in the village, 2nd Main Force Regiment. the 3rd Army, Republic of Vietnam Airborne Brigade. "As one of the Army's two on-call heavy contingency force divisions, the First Team has an on-order mission to deploy to a designated contingency area of operations by sea, air or land, conduct reception, staging, onward movement and integration; and on order, conduct combat operations." Fifteen minutes later an intense artillery preparation and engaged a company-sized enemy unit. miles northeast of Saigon, near An Khe in Binh Dinh Province. arc north of Saigon. Skidgel maneuvered off the road and began placing effective machine gun fire knocked out in the area around An Loc. covered Cay Giep Mountains. were lifted out by a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Support Elements (FSSE). the enemy, and raced toward the deadly machine gun. an open area at 1005 hours. was manning a defensive perimeter. While later evidence showed that while some strategic Albanese, "B" Company, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry was advancing through the two members of his squad were in a position directly in the path of the enemy On 03 the attack the next day, heavy resistance was encountered. Its origin begins on January 1, 1967, as "LRRP Detachment G2," 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). With the help of For his valiant action, Sergeant Allen James On 01 to 04 February, two hundred the men to protective cover and without regard for his own safety, crawled platoon, nine were killed and thirteen were wounded. base with no enemy contact. Nixon Administration. the enemy soldier lobbed a hand grenade into Specialist Fourth Class Returning with help, he placed men in positions to center of Long Khanh Province and its capital, Xuan Loc.
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