Vietnam War Timeline

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1 March 1969
1/35th
Submitted by: Dave Fogg

3rd Bde 4th Inf Div
Bn (1/35) Forward Fire Base
LZ Lillie ZA119561

Unit Locations:
A 1/35 (-) LZ Lillie ZA119561
B 1/35 (-) ZA058580
C 1/35 (-) ZA062533
D 1/35 (-) ZA065554
Recon ZA138584
4.2" LZ Lillie ZA119561
22nd Rangers ZA171530

Summary: Log opened at 0001 hours 1 March 1969. Unit locations: At LZ Lillie ZA119561, A Company, 4.2" mortar platoon, LZ Lillie ZA119561; B Company ZA058580; C Company 062533; D Company 065554; Recon platoon ZA145587; At LZ Oasis; Headquarters and Headquarters Company Support (S-4 Forward); At Base Camp (Camp Enari); Battalion Headquarters (Rear).

At 1430 hours we received a message from Bde in reference to the mortar rounds that C Company had reported taking, they were 82mm instead of 60mm as C Company had reported and this was their assessment of the situation after they had searched the area.

0010 hours (C) hours Spooky 21 is on station on the air/ground push (44.10).

0020 hours (C) Dust-Off 36 is on station.

0025 hours (C) Dust-Off 30 is on station.

0043 hours (C) Dust-Off 36 picked 5 litter and 2 ambulatory patients.

0051 hours (C) Dust-Off 30 picked up 8 patients and the Dust-Off is completed at this time.

0105 hours (C) C Co informs us that they have 6 individuals to be evacuated when it gets light.

0113 hours (C) Spooky 21 is off station and he did not expend.

0215 hours (C) C Co passed the line numbers of the EM who were Dust-Off 1 March; line numbers are as follows and they are as of the Feb roster 41, 43, 18, 64, 82, 144, 65, 63, 31, 8, 142, 160, 58, Michle, Smith, Garner.

0305 hours (C) C Co passed the additional numbers of the EM who were WIA and are still at their location 34, 166, 84, 36, 3, 97, 105, 10, 4, 67, 129, Weinger, Jeffrey, Figuora, Isabel, Washington, as of this time at least 10 of these 15 will have to be Dusted-Off.

0310 hours (C) C Co informed us that after all the information was complied in reference to the WIA that there were 30 WIA, 15 were Dusted Off and 10 will be extracted at the first light this morning.

0315 hours (C) Bde OIC/TOC informed us that there is a jet ready to drop bombs at grid ZA009554 if the grid is still clear (this is the grid that was supposed to be bombed 28 Feb 69 but it was not). Lt Moffat said that the grid is clear at this time.

0620 hours (C) Bde informed us of the following in reference to entry 16; Time on target 0416, 1 F-4 dropped 12 mark 117 got one secondary explosion, time on target 0434 hours no BDA.

0652 hours (C) Requested a Dust-Off for 6 ambulatory patients from C Co (priority) LZ is grid ZA064553 will be secured and the Dust-Off will come on station on our Command A push (55.05).

0744 hours (C) Dust-Off 39 picked up 7 WIA's and the Dust-Off is complete at this time.

0821 hours (C) From Bde to the S-3: Need a dog team. Bde inquired about 2 dog handlers that were wounded.

0900 hours (C) Medic reports that A Co at LZ Lillie had a WIA last evening during the shelling, he is E-3 Tureikas, line no. 139 will be Dusted-Off on the resupply bird.

0946 hours (C) A Co spotted 15 people 700-800 meters to the North of LZ Lillie they are moving to the Northeast, A Co wants to know if there are friendlies in the area, they are sending out a patrol to make a sweep of the area, there are no SRP's in the area.

1225 hours (C) Recon has a 3 ship LZ at grid 133577.

1226 hours (C) PZ Recon first lift.

1234 hours (C) LZ Recon first lift at 062533 C Co night location.

1242 hours (C) PZ Recon final.

1300 hours (C) From the S-3 to C Co: Recon platoon OPCON to C Co at 1245 hours, C co will move from their present position and they will establish a patrol base in the vicinity of grid ZA040527 they will conduct SRP and ambush operations in that area.

1311 hours (U) DELAYED ENTRY-1300 hours 1 Mar 69- C Co local patrol reports that during the sweep they found a bridge and bunkers, they found 20 bunkers and they had overhead cover but they had been destroyed in the last 5-7 days, these bunkers are in the same area that D Co 1/35 was in 11 Feb 69, they had been destroyed and there was Vietnamese writing in these bunkers location grid 052537 also found a bridge that was made of bamboo strips, stretched across the stream and it was used within the last three hours the bridge dips into the water when it is being crossed, trails in the area run parallel with the stream then cross the bridge, the trails are on both sides and they indicate recent use within the last three hours.