As Figure 1 illustrates, Honolulu is in grid zone 4Q. In 1979, the ticks were replaced with a full-line black UTM grid. is located at BR477435, which is actually BR 477-435. Upon arriving in Vietnam, C-Btry. Cobra Gun-ships During the first part of that tour (66-67) he was a door gunner on Westmorelands chopperwherever that was. C-Battery, 7th BN, 15th Field Artillery at various LZs in the BR Grid Coastal Region to include and Cities in South Vietnam, Where We Were The first part of an MGRS coordinate is the grid-zone designation. 05-26? ( - ) still at LZ Action. USARV was a puppet organization put in place to oil the egos of Vietnamese generals and whatever puppet government was in place at the time. Most 5th Division The 114-670 PLEI MRONG 23km NW Pleiku, 25km SW Kontum SF Camp, ZA Users can search by map title, subject, scale, or find a location using latitude and longitude (use the gazetteers listed below or on the maps search page to find latitude and longitude for locations in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and North and South Vietnam). damaged guns from B/1/92, 16 Nov. 68 : C-Btry. YA "Davo" Holdorf. Dec. 68 to late Jan. 69: C-btry. exact location can be found using a Vietnam map that has the BR grid shown 020-510 SOUI DOI 25KM ENE Pleiku near Inter-Sect QL19/QL14 to Kontum, BR In those days, the 173D Airborne was the immediate response group for anything in Asia and the Middle East. If a 100-meter resolution is enough, 3 + 3 digits suffice; if a 1km resolution is enough, 2 + 2 digits suffice; if 10km resolution is enough, 1 + 1 digits suffice. Originator: Publication Place: Washington DC, USA Publisher: Defense Mapping Agency. 918-750 ), BR I have always wondered about him.I just found out 3 yrs ago that he got shot in Nam.I was hoping to find someone that might of known him.he has since past away. These images have been selected by Alpha History authors: 1. Map. This, however, is merely a continuation of a long-standing trend. Memberships include: Stay up-to-date with the Museum & Library. round. 27-48 LZ BUFFALO 5km E. MangYang Pass, 3km CAV HQs: AnKhe Sept. 1966 - Apr. Today, U.S. military men estimate, in addition to the completely North Vietnamese units serving in the south, Hanoi is supplying Viet Cong units with about 10 percent of their personnel. That will then give use the full MGRS coordinate: 48Q YD 113703. General Westmoreland was stationed at USARV headquarters at Tan Son Nhut and in early 1967 moved to Long Bien about 20 miles up highway 1 to the north. We Were April 1968 to April 1969. 895-406 DAK SEANG AF 23km NW DakTo AF, Ranger Camp, YB I am now retired, and a resident at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy, Illinois. I apologize in advance for any misspelled words. Os8[f. INF DIV AO: Pleiku Upper Highlands Sept. 68 - Dec. 70 & AnKhe, ROK ROK Capital Division On. 1st Field Force Headquarters 097-834 FSB PATT 15km WSW Kontum: ( City: AR77-80 ), ZA were installed previously. In the map (figure 1), which uses the AA scheme, we see that Honolulu is in grid zone 4Q, and square FJ. Locate a point using the US Army Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Military_Grid_Reference_System&oldid=1140475364, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with broken or outdated citations from March 2022, All articles with broken or outdated citations, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 4Q .GZD only, precision level 6 8 (in most cases), 4Q FJ .GZD and 100km Grid Square ID, precision level 100km, 4Q FJ 1 6 precision level 10km, 4Q FJ 12 67 .precision level 1km, 4Q FJ 123 678 ..precision level 100m, 4Q FJ 1234 6789 precision level 10m, 4Q FJ 12345 67890 .precision level 1m. If every position being located is within the same grid zone, only the 100,000-meter square and numerical location are specified. Pay was more relative to time in service rather than rank. Five VC Main-Force Battalions 7/15th Please provide as much detail with the area you are looking for and we will find it for you. Name to the RED DOT, thats the exact location as per grid numbers. Did married couples really sleep in separate beds back in the 50s? Figures apart, most U.S. commanders in the field are convinced that there has been a marked decline in the past few months in the combat effectiveness of enemy troops. The Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)[1] is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth. The UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinate system divides the world into sixty north-south zones, each 6 degrees of longitude wide. 22nd Division In instances where the polygon is not a square and has been clipped by a grid zone junction, the polygon keeps the label of the southwest corner as if it had not been clipped. BongSon, BR 615-643 LZ PLUTO Vinh Thang/Happy Valley 36km NW Phu Cat C/7/15 4/24/68, BR Indochina 1954 7. Here, I will share my procedure for converting an MGRS coordinate to a longitude and latitude coordinate that you can more easily find on Google Maps. NVA 3rd Division Out of that 10K group over 7,000 people were awarded the Purple Heart. The battery fired the BNs first round on 16 July & Z Map Grids are NOT Like Others! Grids: East of Pleiku, same as ZA Grids North to South, AR at Phu Cat w/Unit to set up base-camp, 460-245 Le Thanh Dist. 19 Oct. 68 : C-Btry. UFOs! Supplemental resources to use throughout your entire unit. If every position being located is within the same grid zone and 100,000-meter square, only the numerical location is specified. Closed Sunday & Monday. ( - ) displaced to LZ My three years in the U.S. Army consisted of one year at Ft. Monmouth N.J., One year in Vietnam, and one year back at Ft. Monmouth. Royal Australian Air Force Squadron, U.S. Thout on This is to handle an issue raised by some F-16 pilots, who truncate MGRS strings that they receive from the Army. You can then use the GeoJPG web app (I am the developer) to install the JPGs on your phone or tablet and view those JPGs as an *offline* map with geolocation and the MGRS grid turned on. The 1st and 3rd Battalions were stationed at L.Z. 625-556 HAPPY VALLEY 20km NW AnKhe 22NVA Regt. When the term 'grid square' is used, it can refer to a square with a side length of 10km (6mi), 1km, 100m (328ft), 10m or 1m, depending on the precision of the coordinates provided. For example, at the boundary between grid zones 1P and 1Q, we find a 100,000-meter square BT, of which about two thirds is south of latitude 16 and therefore in grid zone 1P, while one third is north of 16 and therefore in 1Q. One recent batch of captured documents, for example, turned up a directive issued by the Viet Congs Political Staff Department warning against confusion of mind, fear of hardships and protracted war, lack of heroism and loss of revolutionary pride.. The USGS is printing maps with the new USNG grid. For example, when describing the entire square BT, should it be called 1PBT or 1QBT? For a short description of my other projects see the MappingSupport project page. If 5 + 5 digits is used, the first 5 digits give the easting in meters, measured from the left edge of the square, and the last 5 digits give the northing in meters, measured from the bottom edge of the square. displaces to LZ Blackhawk BR 035-535 INF in the area of LZ Oasis, at Cateka Tea Plantation. from the Units landing in Qui Nhon June 1967 to March Tim was sent to Japan, then state-side. To see which maps are available for sale(or free digital download), go to the onlineUSGS Store: The USGS doesnot have a complete set of NGA 1:50,000 maps for the United States. FORCES: Its not a crumbling army. 888-570 LZ HAMMOND W. side QL1, 10km NNW Phu Cat, BR using Grid Line Coordinates, and go from there. All over. Quang Tin, Quang Ngai, Hue, Da Nang, II Corps Without going into detail, just think of them as normal 100 kilometer trail, BR Also known as Eye Corps, this encompasses the five northernmost provinces in South Vietnam, along with two major cities Hue and Da Nang. Vietnam. We transported the prisoners our forces captured from the field to the POW camps where MACV took over responsibility in an advisory capacity to see that the Geneva Convention agreement relating to prisoner treatment was adhered to by the South Vietnamese who had control of the camp. Copy and paste the Google Map Coordinates into the location bar on Google Maps. 7/15th deactivated, the major enemy units reportedly located within or on the boundaries Selecting the appropriate scale depends on the size of the sheet of paper and the accurate placement of features. Hosp. North Vietnam Map. HQs along QL14 22km S. Pleiku, YA MGRS Mapper (Free Version) | Operational Graphics Tool for Junior Military Leaders format_shapes Touch the Symbol to Add to the Map Frequently Used Symbols CKP T Default Land Unit Select a Symbol Friendly Select an Affiliation None Select a Unit Size Specify unit echelons (separate levels of command) from Fire Team to Command Group C2 None to Bong Son AF, BR to find that LZ or exact location you were in? If we zoom in on Hawaii (figure 2), we see that the square that contains Honolulu, if we use 10km resolution, would be written 4QFJ15. Long, An Giang, Kion Giang, Chunong Thion, Phong Dinh, Ba Xuyen, An Xuyen, Duc Liou, LZ 999-219 LZ CHARMAINE Tiger assault C/1/35th Inf 30 Jan. 69, 2/9 FA: 4 Sept. 67 : C-Btry. (from "UPTIGHT" magazine), (Click thumbnail image of map to enlarge), Simplified 2 0 obj then on to Pleiku. 872-958 BONG SON on QL1 75km NNW Qui Nhon VC Valley: 90-93, BR For more information about GISsurfer, please visit the GISsurfer homepage. 23rd Division, U.S. If Kennedy had not been assasinated many thousand of lives would have been saved. 202-341 to 351 CATECKA PLEIKU AIRFIELD 10-12km NE Oasis AF, ZA Evac. 220-465 Observation Post 10 7km SW Pleiku, 7km WSW Holloway, ZA AO ( also: BR82-65 ), BR I think it will be the Vietnam Center and Archives at the Texas Tech University. Tea Plant. Shows locations of military camps: I Corps, II Corps, III Corps, IV Corps, and the Vietnam Demilitarized Zone during the Vietnam War; also shows outline maps of Laos, Cambodia, and part of Thailand. land mine blows in between a 5-ton truck pushing and an FDC track vehicle Non-copyrighted maps can also be downloaded in a variety of sizes and formats. An American Army unit were 90% of the people in it were injured in combat but kept on fighting. at various LZs in the BR Grid Coastal Region to include 804-470 71st EVAC. Approx. 204-214 LZ OUTRIDER also ZA 200-170 26km SSW Pleiku, ZA are and how to get to them, whether If a resolution of 10 meters is enough, the final digit of the easting and northing can be dropped, so that only 4 + 4 digits are used, representing a 10-meter square. mid-Feb. 69 : C-btry. 1967-69, BR However, you still use the same system to figure out Where You Were! I was radio teletype 1st Signal Brigade, Company A, 52nd Signal Battion in Can Tho and on the Island of Phu Quoc (which was under dispute between Cambodia and South Vietnam of who owned it) 68 69. You can also get our free newsletter, follow us on Facebook & Pinterest. This of course, did not sit well with Castro. 4, 9 Oct. 68 : C-Btry. completes mission at 483rd Troop Carrier Wing Ground area, rivers, lakes, roads, distances between features, and so on must be shown proportionately smaller than they really are. Military Map Reading Qui Nhon Aug. 65-69 at Phu Bai 69-71, BS The Tet holiday happens every year. Whether you need a map for navigation, backpacking, or simply to keep track of your progress, you can find a mgrs map to suit your needs. having certain unit sections at one area in a Landing Zone. Elements of 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Grid, Symbols for 1:50,000-scale 15-minute quadrangle topographic maps of the United States. The PLSS typically divides land into 6-mile-square townships. Is this map available for purchase? The second part of an MGRS coordinate is the 100,000-meter square identification. 31 Sept. 67 : GS ( - ) 2nd & 3rd Dave went to 2 Feb. 68 : C-Btry. C-Btry. map half: Highways, Grid Zones, 7/15th FA LZs, Lower Beginning in the mid-1950s, the grid was indicated by blue ticks around the map at 1,000-meter spacing. Here, we find that YD is located within the higher level zone, 48Q, For Con Thien, therefore, we need to add 48Q to the beginning. during the Vietnam War, (Note: I Corps was north and 868-994 LZ LONELY QL14 7km SSW Phu Nhon: AQ88-99, C/7/15th LZ ENGLISH or BR 879-005 5km NNE Bong Son, BS 883-068 Elements of 2nd Brigade 4th Infantry Division the grid, the first ( 3 ) three numbers are the ( E ) East coordinates, the last This article will focus on the locations and information during my tour 5 924-752 LZ UPLIFT QL1 ran thru, 12km SSE Bong Son HHB/7/15th FA ALL Artillery Revised Vietnam Maps these .pdf map files. This division produces lines that are 10,000 meters apart. FA Batteries May 1968 - May 1969, Major US Army Unit <>>> Timothy J. Haslett, and is the North coordinate of the last three numbers of BR477-435. dimensions are larger than 14" x 8.5"). Hill, AR The third part of an MGRS coordinate is the numerical location within a 100,000 meter square, given as n + n digits, where n is 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. 163-049 PLEI ME 44 km SSW Pleiku W. off QL14, ZA Vietnam [$39.95 at amazon.com] 1st Marine Air Wing 130-307 BASE 202 NVA/ VC Valley Staging Area 40 km WSW AnKhe, 1st ROK Tiger Div. The firebase had two 8 and two 175mm mobile howitzers with four mobile four 40mms in each corner of the compound.I went there as combat medic in march or early apr. Highlands, 1967 Base believed the Red Team Troop C, 7/17, Dec. 68 to late Jan. 69: C-btry. Your email address will not be published. Map torn at edges and fold-lines. But an MGRS grid reference can denote an area that crosses a latitude band boundary. I was Senior Advisor to the 33rd and 34th Ranger Bns.in 1971. % We will be adding more locations as time goes on. Nonetheless, the U.S. command in Saigon believes that Hanoi has not been able to keep pace with the Viet Congs attrition rate and that, as a consequence, total enemy troop strength has declined over the past year. 797-348 ARTILLERY HILL in Camp Enari, Pleiku, AR So encouraged is General Westmoreland that he is about to launch into what he terms Phase Three of the war. I spent 19 months with the 1st Battalion of the 173D Airborne Brigade in Viet Nam from May 69 to Dec 70. I have maps that date back to 1897 which includes the RailRoad routes in the US. HILL also YA 922-270 8km ENE Duc Co AF, 37km WSW Pleiku. 72-23 to BR 80-90 AN LAO VALLEY then NE to Bong Son to Ocean, BR Tuesday Saturday 2. While the map is open you can now display data from *any* public-facing (i.e. locations for most areas of the Vietnam War. 80-84 to BR86-77 506 VALLEY 18km S. Bong Son, 9km W. QL1, BR Good Luck! 1st Infantry Division Using the Vietnam Archive Maps Database Please note that we have a separate search form for searching our Maps collection. & BQ meet at the large black dot at the city of Plei Kanong. Diana. & Z Map Grids are NOT Like Others! Does anyone know the name of the base? 936-271 CAV. S. to Plei Me. The map is displayed by GISsurfer which is a general purpose web map based on the Leaflet map API (Application Program Interface). Thats why the 173D was put on alert and sitting next to some C-130 airplanes in Viet Nam waiting for the word to load-up, fly to northeast Africa and parachute into the fight in that arena. [5] The civilian version of MGRS, USNG, also uses truncation.[6]. per shrapnel in left leg, sent back to LZ Blackhawk. Thanks for sharing this wonderful pictorial, and facts about Vietnam. displaced to LZ English BS 878-015. In 1961 My dad was with the United States AIR FORCE and stationed at Yokota Air Base Photo Intelligence and he was assigned to MAC-13 in Thailand behind the Green Door. 100, BR the ONLY grids in Vietnam, A & Z, for the entire length of The government claims to control more than 50 percent of the 6.5 million people in the watery region, but in many areas its grip is tenuous. Ive Correct except MACV was the higher command. They gave out rank like it was candy bars. LC copy annotated with hand-written notes and lines to show conflict areas. July/Aug. fires another mission 5 Jan. 68 : C-Btry. Most people dont know it but the 173D, shortly after the fights at Hill 875 and Dak To Army Airfield, had some of its paratroopers sitting alongside the runways at Dak To dressed in desert warfare camouflage uniforms because they had been put on alert to go into the 7 Day War between Israel and Egypt. I agree. Using other maps in this folder, Ive drawn the grid over-lay 865-255 BEN HET 13km E. Tri-Border, 15km WNW Dak To, YB 312-374-9333. displaced to Dave Holdorf. Diana I am sorry for your loss. UpLift, BS 808-832 LZ PONY HaTay, just S. inter/sect Rtes 605/TL3A 13km SSW Distribution of forces in Vietnam 1968, Vietnam War memory quiz events 1946-1964, Vietnam War memory quiz events 1965-1975, Vietnam War memory quiz terms and concepts (I), Vietnam War memory quiz terms and concepts (II). 104 S. Michigan Ave. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS To Plei Mrong/Polei Kleng areas in mid-Jan. 69, LZ Action in Feb. 69. stayed at LZ Blackhawk. NOTE: Tra Noc village across the river gave us mortar and rocket file, not to mention ground assaults. If the grid zone or 100,000-meter square are clear from context, they can be dropped, and only the numerical location is specified. Your last statement, If Kennedy had not been assasinated many thousand of lives would have been saved. is only speculation and is a theory (or a lament) that evolved well after his death and after LBJ began his escalation of the war. FORCES: How are UTM coordinates measured on USGS topographic maps? MY Unit and I FOUGHT SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSIONS IN CENTAL VIETNAM S MOUNTAINOUS AND JUNGLE AREAS (1968 & 1969 while in the 4TH INFANTRY. Again, imagine three digits wide. 10:00 am to 4:00 pm FORCES: 3rd Marine Division 1st Marine Division 1st Marine Air Wing 36th Tactical Fighter Wing America! How current are US Topo maps? The videos that I am still working on will walk you though that process. Then give each section an amount or value of 100 Uplift. 998-217 Tigers Spotted 1-3/69 1/35th Daily Log. (In some cases, squares adjacent to a Grid Zone Junction (GZJ) are clipped, so polygon is a better descriptor of these areas.) Thanks to my dad I have a great collection of Maps all over the world. July to Aug. 68 : C-Btry. We were the 362nd Signal Co. operating a Strat Com Tropo repeater site on Lang Bian mountain out of Da Lat in the Central Highlands. in South Vietnam But, even allowing for continued steady improvement on the part of South Vietnamese forces, most Americans in Vietnam doubt whether they will be ready, when Westmoreland flashes the sign, to assume the heavy military burden he contemplates putting upon them. All of these maps are oversized (i.e. were installed previously. Uplift. that had a generator belt come off. There are several places to download a free horizontally, the Grid Line that separates ie: Zones BR & BQ. that some locations have more than one grid due to either being large, or by 15th Historian Dan Gillotti. Finally, The Military Personnel Records Center in St Louis, MO has all retired records that survived their fire a couple decades ago. displaces to LZ Pluto BR 615-643 Happy This has been controversial in the past, since the oldest specification, TM8358.1,[1] used rounding, as did GEOTRANS[4] before version 3.0. Learn how your comment data is processed. 35th Tactical Fighter Wing And by 1969, the general says, he hopes to start Phase Four the gradually phased withdrawal of a significant number of U.S. combat troops. As a result, meaningful comparisons with previous manpower estimates have now become all but impossible. The MGRS is derived from the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system and the Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) grid system, but uses a different labeling convention. Thanks for visiting and for supporting a small business! Keep in mind that the grid lines are NOT There are nearly 200,000 South Vietnamese regulars, militia and irregulars operating in the delta, along with 9,000 U.S. troops, and they have inflicted serious wounds on the enemy. NVA 368th B Regiment Follow the RED line from the LZ