MAP – 83-67 – SAIGON – BIEN HOA – DONG NAI RIVER – 1971 ORPHANAGE – Vietnam War

Description

Very
Rare Map – 1971 issue, US / ARVN / RVNAF – Issue.
This map prepared by the US Army 1st Engineer, Topographic Group in conjunction with the Air Force of the Republic of Vietnam and the Engineer Command of the US Army Vietnam.
Part of the rare SAIGON – BIEN HOA map series.
US MILITARY MAP – Vietnam War Map
Maps showing Dong Nai River (Saigon – Bien Hoa), surrounds of Bien Hoa Air Base / Combat Base. This piece specifically southwest of Bien Hoa and shows;
Orphanage, Hong-Phuc Brick Yard, Vinh Hoa Brick Yard, Rock Crushing Plant, Highway 1, Saw Mill, Pumping station, Military Areas.
At this time, Bien Hoa Airbase and Tan Son Nhut Airbase to the south were the two busiest airports in the world in terms of Take Offs and Landings.
Measures – 29 x 22.5 inches ( 74 x 59 cms )
Printed – April 1967
Saigon – Bien Hoa
Bien Hoa
During the Vietnam Wars, French Indochina and
the American War (1955–75), the base was used by the Republic of Vietnam Air
Force (VNAF).
The United States used it as a major base
from 1961 through 1973, stationing Army, Air Force (USAF), US Navy, US Special
Forces and US Marine units there.
At all times, between 1967 and 1970, Bien Hoa
Air base and Tan Son Nhut Air base (Saigon) were alternated between been the
first and second busiest airports in the world.
In December 1960, The U.S. Military
Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) requested the U.S. Navy (the designated
contract construction agent for the Dept. of Defense in Southeast Asia) to
develop plans for and construct several jet-capable airfields in South Vietnam,
including at Bien Hoa.
In December 1961, the American construction
company RMK-BRJ was directed by the Navy’s Officer in Charge of Construction
RVN to begin construction of a new concrete runway, the first of many projects
built by RMK-BRJ at the Bien Hoa Air Base over the following ten years.
Fall of Bien Hoa Airbase
In March 1975 Hanoi made its next seriously
aggressive move. In the preceding two years, North Vietnam’s army patiently
moved into the South enormous quantities of Soviet artillery, surface-to-air
missiles, and armored vehicles, along with 100,000 fresh troops.
On 10 March the North Vietnamese Army began a
new offensive in South Vietnam. Northern forces isolated the provincial capitol
of Buôn Ma Thuột by cutting off or blocking the main highways to it. It was at
Ban Me Thuot that the first phenomenon which would increasingly undermine the
South’s morale occurred. Many of its army officers used helicopters to pick up
their families and flee to the south with them.
South Vietnamese civilians then began to flee
the countryside, crowding the main roads and the pathways in a mass exodus for
the coast, where they ultimately jammed seaports seeking transport to the
south. The refugees included not only those civilians who had helped the
South’s army or the Americans, but also a great mass who expected bad treatment
from the communists.
By early April of 1975 the end of South
Vietnam was at hand.
North Vietnam’s forces had severed the roads
around Saigon and had begun shelling Bien Hoa. On 9 April the ARVN engaged the
PAVN at Xuan Loc, located on Highway 1 only 37 miles northeast of Saigon.
Xuan Loc fell on 23 April, and there was now
little to prevent or slow the Communist advance on Saigon.
The loss of Xuan Loc made Bien Hoa Air base
indefensible, although the VNAF continued to fly from the base until PAVN
artillery fire forced the evacuation of Bien Hoa on 25 April.
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