Vietnam War Timeline

288
11 February 1969
1/35th
Submitted by: Dave Fogg

3rd Bde 4th Inf Div Bn
(1/35) Forward Fire Base
LZ Jane ZA057436


Unit Locations:
A 1/35 062535
B 1/35 LZ Jane ZA057436
C 1/35 LZ Jane ZA057436
C Co 2nd platoon Rock Quarry
D 1/35 (-) 059539
D Co 2nd platoon LZ Janet YA896243
Recon 062543
4.2\" LZ Jane ZA057436
1/10 Cav J-3273 073480
3d Bde LRRP\'s (Tones 65) 003535


Summary: Log opened at 0001 hours 11 February 1969. Unit locations: At LZ Jane ZA057436, Battalion Headquarters (Forward); B Company, C Company (-), 4.2\" mortar platoon, C Battery 2/9 artillery, 3d platoon (-) D Company 4th Engineer Battalion; D Company ZA062543; Recon platoon ZA062543; at ZA055535, OPCON units: D Company 2nd platoon OPCON to the 1/69 Armor; C Company 2nd platoon OPCON to the 1/69 Armor; At LZ Oasis Headquarters and Headquarters Company Support (S-4 Froward); At Base Camp (Camp Enari); Battalion Headquarters (Rear).

At 0853 hours B Company CA\'d from LZ Jane to LZ Lillie to establish a new fire base, the lift was complete at 1028 hours and the LZ was cold. At 1145 hours Recon platoon reported killing one (1) NVA he was wearing shorts and a T-shirt and he was carrying an U.S. .45 caliber pistol. Also one U.S. hand grenade serial number of the .45 caliber pistol 740074 there was one magazine in the pistol, the remainder of the equipment was sent to Bde. Word tattooed on the right arm (USAR). At 1305 hours A Company reported finding 3 1-man foxholes, C-rations for 3-4 persons, 1 battery for a PRC-25, 1 long antenna, trip flare wire, empty beer and soda cans, 1 weapon sling, 1 US ballpoint pen and one U.S. box of pretzels. At 1326 hours A Company reported finding 50 bunkers underground, 4 feet deep and ten square feet, 2 feet of overhead cover, 1 NVA helmet, 1 underground kitchen (Company size) with three burners and plates in the middle smoke draft in the top of the complex 3 built in water containers, a few small cooling containers, medicine bottles with pills and bandages with blood at ZA051537. At 1405 hours C Battery 2/9 Artillery started the lift from LZ Jane to LZ Lillie. At 1700 hours TOC was operational at LZ Lillie. At 1910 hours D Company reported receiving incoming mortar rounds, believed to be 60mm, rounds started falling approximately 500meteres out and they were walked in to about 300 meters, all the rounds fell outside the perimeter, there were approximately 20 founds fired. D Company believed that the rounds came from grid ZA061534 artillery was employed and it was on target, the area is to be swept 12 February 1969. At 1945 hours D Company reported that they observed 4 secondary explosions from the artillery fire on the suspected enemy mortar positions.

0450 hours (C) informed all elements at LZ Jane that at 0530 hours 100% standto would be observed.

0840 hours (C) To S-3 from Juliet 97, D 1/10 Cav will work grids 0754 then 0654 they will be searching for the missing LRRPs.

0901 hours (C) Gunships made a hot pass on LZ Lillie.

0903 hours (C) LZ first lift B Co LZ Cold.

1145 hours (C) Recon killed 1 NVA KIA. He was carrying a .45 caliber pistol and he was wearing a T-shirt also carrying 1 C/S grenade 055535, serial number of the weapon 740074, 1 magazine in the weapon, negative web gear.

1250 hours (C) Recon said the NVA was killed by an M-16 in the head.

1305 hours (C) A Co at grid ZA065534 found 3 1 man foxholes, C-rations for 3-4 people, 1 battery from PRC-25, 1 long antenna, trip flare wire and pin, beer and soda cans and one weapon slug, 1 US type ballpoint pen, 1 box of pretzels.

1326 hours (C) A Co 4th platoon found the following: 50 bunkers underground 4 feet deep and 10 feet square, 24\" of overhead cover, 1 NVA helmet, underground kitchen company size with three burners and a plate in the middle smoke draft to top of the complex, 3 built in water containers and a few small utensils, medicine bottles with pills, bandages with blood all of this found at grid 051537.

1432 hours (C) Recon reports that they were 5 meters away from the NVA that they killed.

1444 hours (C) S-3 reports that they have a picture of the dead NVA man was 5\' 1\" tall, weight 130 pounds.

1510 hours (C) USAR was tattooed on the right arm of the dead NVA.

1517 hours (C) Change ion the earlier estimate of the amount of bunkers, there are about 200 bunkers spread over an area of approximately 500 meters.

1700 hours (C) D Co 3d platoon has movement, they are throwing frags and they are moving to the back of D Co location, 3d platoon estimate of the enemy force is a squad size element.

1910 hours (C) D Co reports that they are receiving incoming mortar rounds at this time.

1914 hours (C) D Co reports that they received 30 rounds of 60mm mortar and they landed approximately 200 meters outside of the perimeter.

1916 hours (C) D Co reports that the rounds were landing 500 meters outside of the perimeter and that they were walked into about 300 meters of the perimeter.

1945 hours (C) Informed Bde that D Co had four secondary explosions from the artillery that was fired on the suspected enemy positions (mortar).