![]() ![]() The 101st Airborne Division units directly affected were the infantry companies of two battalions, the 1st/501st Inf. The Americal units directly affected were the 1/46th Infantry companies and C Battery, 1st/14th Arty, which maintained 105mm artillery atop LZ Professional. Most of these counts were sustained in intense combat during the month of May. May 15 became the start of a joint Americal/101st Airborne effort named Operation Lamar Plain that continued until mid-August 1969.įrom May 12 to the conclusion of Operation Lamar Plain, US casualties counted to 125 US KIA, 460 US WIA, and 1 US MIA. battalion was placed under the operational control (OPCON) of the 101st brigade, which was in-turn OPCON to the Americal Division. The 101st Airborne's, 1st Brigade brought a force of two infantry battalions, the 2nd Squadron /17th Air Cav, teams of OH-6A "Loaches" armed with 7.65 mm miniguns, AH-1G Cobras (aerial rocket artillery), a 105mm Artillery battery, a company of UH-1 Hueys, and a section of CH-47 Chinooks and a team of Air Force forward controllers. The attack on LZ Professional escalated into a Tactical Emergency (TAC-E.) on when a full airmobile brigade of the 101st Airborne Division was dispatched into the area. One of the most intense attacks occurred in the "free-fire zone" around LZ Professional patrolled by the 1/46 Infantry. On May 12, 1969, the North Vietnam Army (NVA) began a major offensive throughout the Americal Division area of operations at LZ's Baldy, Center, and Professional. Sources include Americal Division after-action reports, 1/46 Infantry daily staff journals, the Operation Lamar Plain after-action report filed by the 101st Airborne Division, Medal of Honor documentation, and an August 1993 Vietnam Magazine article titled Recon Zone Alpha written by John Hayes. It is a reconstruction of events from declassified official records as well as the personal recollections of veterans from Americal units who were involved. This story is about a combat event that happened in May, 1969 in the area around the fire support base named LZ Professional. ![]() I am including a recollection of the event from Rick Olson,found on this website:įrom: AMERICAL NEWSLETTER: VIETNAM NEWS NETWORK Dunagan,Commanding Officer of Alpha Co.,1st/46th Infantry,196th Light Infantry Brigade for heroic action in May 1969. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I just picked up this patch,have'nt yet received it,so the pics are'nt mine.The unit from this patch has an interesting history they were involved in a battleįor their lives and were nearly routed by North Vietnamese forces,who outnumbered them 3 to 1.Given the Medal of Honor for his action in this battle wasĬpt. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. ![]() If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit. ![]() The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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