Blue Max RVN Mapped Memories
From Jim Henthorn's amazing maps at http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/SVNmap.html
| An Loc http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/vietnam/maps/nc48-04/nc48_04a.html XT 8589 - Site of 1972 battle of An Loc. Blue Max destroyed first tank by helicopter. Used High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) rockets. See http://www.drublair.com/catalog13.html |
| III Corps - Ham Tan coastal city area http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/vietnam/maps/nc48-08/nc48_08b.html YS 8690 - hill 874 was where the 33rd NVA was supposed to be in early 1971. The entire Blue Max Battalion went there with CS riot gas rockets, HE rockets, Fleschette rockets and a CS gas canister in the CO's Huey. CS canister went off in the Huey. Div Chemical officer fell out over 874. |
| Phan-Thiet coastal city http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/vietnam/maps/nc48-08/nc48_08c.html |
| Fire Support Base Mace http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/vietnam/maps/nc48-08/nc48_08a.html YT 6010 - common laager site at Hill 837 Nui Chau Chan Gia Ray - dirt air strip. Copilot CWO Tony White and I landed a stuck left pedal here. Smack landing after re-arming aircraft. Escorted Medivac 30 K East of Mace 0-0 by flying down abandoned train tracks below tree tops. Just like a ride at Disneyland. North of QL-1 between Xuan Loc and Nui Chau Chan was French Villa - rubber plantation, swimming pool, two tennis courts, runway for Cessna 172 and, babes. Apparently war exempt. |
| Plantation and Bearcat http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/vietnam/maps/nc48-07/nc48_07d.html YT 0100 - 1970-1971 - C Battery 2/20th located at Bearcat (Free World Military Base - Thai-Korean- ARVN-US) near Long Thanh North YT 1010 - 1971-1972 - F/79 located at Plantation near Bien Hoa |
| Phouc Vinh http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/vietnam/maps/nc48-04/nc48_04e.html YT 9555 - Blue Max 2/20th headquarters |
| Tay Ninh City and Nui Ba Den Mountain http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/vietnam/maps/nc48-03/nc48_03h.html Blue Max worked Parrott's Beak from Tay Ninh late September early October 1972. |
| Fire Support Base Pace http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/vietnam/maps/nc48-03/nc48_03c.html XT 0888 just North of Thien Ngon. F/79 Blue Max major battle and extraction of FSB Pace. Rickenbacker and MacLachlan shot down and picked up. |