By Gordon Rottman
In 1961 US precise Forces devices all started coming into distant parts of Vietnam ruled through the Viet Cong. Their activity was once to arrange neighborhood safeguard and strike forces geared toward preventing the enemy from gaining additional keep an eye on of such parts. the fairway Berets arrange fortified camps from which indigenous troops defended neighborhood villages and attacked and stressed the enemy. How those camps have been built, built, and defended is documented right here for the 1st time. This e-book additionally covers the guns, obstacles, and stumbling blocks utilized in those camps, offering particular examples of camp layout, and info how they withstood the try out of conflict opposed to a decided and inventive enemy.
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This was seldom successful, but VC sympathizers in the Strike Force were sometimes more effective. When an attack was suspected the perimeter guard was increased and a heightened state of alert maintained. When the attack was initiated or detected by sentries virtually all perimeter weapons opened fire, even if no movement was detected in their sectors. This was in case supporting attacks or infiltrators were elsewhere in the wire. Designated mortars began firing illumination all around the perimeter.
One company was assigned to each of the four walls. The inner perimeter was six-sided and surrounded by a concertina wirefronted low berm. There were machine gun or fighting bunkers at each corner, but no trench line. The inner berm was revetted on the inside and served only as a wall from which to fire from behind, but with no rear protection. Six woodframe, corrugated metal-roofed buildings were inside the inner perimeter, each Battle for Loc Ninh, October 29 to November 3, 1967. Key: A. USSF team house.
They were usually semi-sunk, although some were positioned above ground for the reasons noted above or to obtain a better spread of fire by mounting the weapon higher. There was usually only one firing port per machine gun; seldom were alternate ports provided. Most bunkers mounted a single machine gun, but two or three might be mounted in large corner bunkers to cover multiple sectors of fire. An attached sleeping compartment might be connected to or be part of the bunker. Often a guard post was built atop the bunker, comprising a low sandbag wall with a corrugated steel roof on posts for sun protection.