These photos were taken of Bravo Company during our operations on the Bong Son Plains. During the Battle of the Ia Drang, 1st Cavalry commander Major General Harry Kinnard had considered operations on the Binh Dinh plain, part of the area involved in Bong Son…

Arnold’s company commander had left him to watch the bunker and gone off to direct another scene in the four-day battle of Bong Son.Toady 259 Communists had been killed and so had 16 GIs as U.S. Army 1st Air …

The following four photographs show the sequence of a combat assault with Bravo Company.

^ Lessons Learned, Report 2-66 – The Battle of Annihilation and The BONG SON Campaign, 1 April 1966, AD0502772 [permanent dead link] This article incorporates material from the Citizendium article " Battle of Bong Son ", which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License but not under the GFDL . 19-year-old rifleman from Newark.

Photo Gallery of Bong Son. Bong Son was north of that area. The NVA fought back strongly and Sang asked for reinforcements by two ARVN airborne battalions, which still were not enough.

The Battle of Bong Son was the second major battle for the 1st Cavalry Division, an airmobile unit of divisional strength, during the Vietnam War.It also was called Operation Irving, and involved the start of frequent combat in an area called the Iron Triangle. He now had time to implement those ideas.

The Battle of Bong Son was the second major battle for the US 1st Cavalry Division, an airmobile unit of divisional strength, during the Vietnam War.It also was called Operation Irving A month earlier in 1965, in the Battle of the Ia Drang, the 1st Cavalry used all the division infantry, but one brigade at a time. Bong Son was a village on QL 1 located on the Song Lai Giang in what was then South Vietnam.

During the Battle of the Ia Drang, 1st Cavalry commander Major General Harry Kinnard had considered operations on the Binh Dinh plain, part of the area involved in Bong Son. It was in Binh Dinh Province.Intothatdarkness 22:05, 3 August 2010 (UTC) Bồng Sơn In ictu oculi 00:01, 14 September 2013 (UTC) Iron Triangle. The first photograph shows a large-scale 1st Cavalry Division airmobile operation over Bong Son in 1967. The Iron Triangle was actually a region roughly west of Saigon in the III CTZ. If PAVN/VC units were in the area, the 3rd Brigade would bring them to battle or destroy them as they fled. N.J., said.

A month earlier in 1965, in the Battle of the Ia Drang, the 1st Cavalry used all the division infantry, but one brigade at a time.

Operation Masher began officially on the morning of 28 January 1966, low clouds, wind and heavy rain prevented the movement of artillery to Firebase Brass.

The operation Phase One: Bong Son.