Vietnam War Timeline

42
18 January 1969
1/35th
Submitted by: Dave Fogg

3rd Bde 4th Inf Div
Bn (1/35) Forward Fire Base
LZ Tango ZA035663

Unit Locations:
A 1/35 951646
B 1/35 LZ Tango ZA035663
Snoopy Baron 008657
C 1/35 YA952678
D 1/35 YA951662
Recon Plt LZ Oasis
4.2" Mortar Plt, LZ Oasis

Summary: Log opened at 0001 hours 18 January 1969. Unit locations: At LZ Tango ZA356637, Battalion Headquarters (Forward), B Company, C Battery 2/9 artillery, 3rd platoon (-) D Company 4th Engineers Battalion, Objective Bravo; D Company YA952678, C Company YA951662, A Company YA951646; At LZ Oasis; Headquarters and Headquarters Company Support (S-4 Forward), E Company; At Base Camp (Camp Enari); Battalion Headquarters (Rear).

A, C and D Companies conducted their Recon in force operation in the area of ARC lights, other than that no significant activities occurred in the area of operation during the reporting period.

0040 hours (C) 51C informs us that an artillery smoke round hit 5-10 meters away from A D Co member, a piece of metal hit the man above his knee creating a small wound, the man is well enough to wait for the morning for a Dust-Off, the man was in a hole on the west side of the perimeter when the incident happened.

0924 hours (C) Talked with Special Forces at Plei Mrong (Inverse Morse) says he will have 75 people for the CA on 19 January 1969.

0925 hours (C) C Co reports finding one sandal and fresh blood trails also found a lot of boulders at grid 952678, they are now following the blood trails.

0930 hours (C) C Co reports that the blood that they found was very fresh they also found a foot. They also found an NVA canteen and many caves which they are going to search.

0945 hours (C) C Co reports that they had negative findings in the caves.

1006 hours (C) C Co reports finding 1 AK-47 magazine and more caves at grid 952681.

1014 hours (C) C Co reports finding a grave, they found the grave and it had one NVA body buried in it.

1019 hours (C) In reference to item 33 the body had on light green uniform and it was buried this morning.

1027 hours (C) In reference to the above item the body had on a blue T-shirt and some papers, Kit Carson papers were OP orders.

1035 hours (C) C Co reports that the Kit Carson scout said papers said 13 NVA were to stay on the hill and 14 were to go get lots of NVA to assault the hill.

1159 hours (C) D Co found a village 100 meters to the north of the objective, several hooches and 15 rounds of 60mm mortar.

1345 hours (C) D Co reports finding a Base Camp, 25 sleeping positions, 1 hooch, 10 camp fires and 20 rounds of 60mm mortars at grid 934662.