MAP - 84-67 - BIEN HOA AIR BASE - 1971 - Combat Base - Dong Nai - Vietnam War

Description

Very Rare Map - 1971 issue, US / ARVN / RVNAF Issue.
84-67 Series L8021
This is a super rare piece showing Bien Hoa Combat Base to the north and outlying Air base Security MP / SPS area's to the south and alongside the Dong Nai River.
Includes, Police Office, Orphanage, Asylum, Factory, Power Transmission station, Military Areas, Brick Yards, Water Towers, Railroad station and more.
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
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 - July 1971
Saigon - Bien Hoa - Map Series
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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