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	Amtracer Photos Page 48
		Cpl Dave Freeman and Vern Bjugstad with 18 trac in the background at the Bridge Ramp in Da Nang.
		Larry Alexander and Ron Coleman feeding each other C Rations on the beach at Cua Viet.
		Believe this is along the Cua Viet River.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/5791/photos48.html (63 words)

	"By Sea, Air, and Land" Chapter 3
		Discovering that the 1st Viet Cong Regiment planned to attack the Marine enclave at Chu Lai from a coastal village 12 miles to the south, General Westmoreland directed the III Marine Amphibious Force, the chief Marine command in South Vietnam, to preempt the assault and destroy the 1,500-man enemy unit.
		The PBR, the ubiquitous workhorse of the River Patrol Force, was manned by a crew of four bluejackets, equipped with a Pathfinder surface radar and two radios, and commonly armed with two twin- mounted.50-caliber machine guns forward, M-60 machine guns (or a grenade launcher) port and starboard amidship, and a.50-caliber aft.
		The Vietnamese Navy's River Force sailors often fought hard and bravely, killing many of the enemy and suffering heavy losses of their own, but their valor and sacrifice was not rewarded with strategic success.
	www.history.navy.mil /seairland/chap3.htm (19569 words)

	misc3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Viet Cong mining of the main shipping channel, the Long Tau River, which wound its way through the Rung Sat Special Zone south of the capital, could have had a devastating effect on the war effort.
		From September to October 1967, River Section 521 and Hunterdon County deployed to the river areas south of Danang and to Cau Hai Bay near Hue.
		The mission of the task force was to secure the Perfume River (which gave access to Hue from the sea) and the Cua Viet River.
	www.homestead.com /leeshomesthree/misc3.html (1726 words)

	Dong Ha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The base was only a few miles from the DMZ that separated North and South Viet Nam.
		It was the location of northernmost aviation unit in Viet Nam.
		The Navy unit at Dong Ha and Cua Viet on the Cua Viet River pushed supplies and ammunition through to the 3d Marine Division on the DMZ and elsewhere in I Corps.
	www.vspa.com /k9/dongha.htm (344 words)

	Navy Unit Commendation
		The Battalion Landing Team was assigned the mission of engaging and destroying this enemy force and of keeping the river open to friendly traffic.
		The enemy forces on the northern bank of the Cua Viet routed, the Marines crossed to the southern side.
		The vital life-line of communication, the Cua Viet River, was once again secured enabling supplies to reach the beleaguered forces on the Demilitarized Zone as far west as Khe Sanh.
	www.geocities.com /bobta_2000/NUC.htm (653 words)

	Oral History - Post 1946
		Positioning in the exact middle of the approximately 1,000-yard wide river was critical, because the banks and jungle along the river was not free of Viet Cong infiltration.
		Cua Viet was a small fishing village at the mouth of the Cua Viet River, which went inland to Dong Ha, a large U.S. Marine Corps supply, ammunition and fuel depot for Marine Corps operations in I Corps (northernmost military region of South Vietnam).
		Cua Viet was only about four kilometers from the DMZ, so the North Vietnamese would regularly fire heavy artillery rounds at the small naval activity trying to hit the ammunition depot and the rubber fuel bladders at the fuel farm.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq87-6a.htm (4617 words)

	Navy Patrol Boat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The CUA VIET River is the supply line from the Port of CUA VIET to DONG HA for the 3rd DIV USMC.
		1/61 conducts ambushes to the north of the river in an attempt to stop the mine layers as they move south.
		In fact the NVA have a special school for "Sappers", sort of like our Rangers, just across the DMZ north of CUA VIET and it is said that the graduation exercise is a patrol to mine the CUA VIET.
	members.aol.com /wmm161/patbt.htm (127 words)

	maproom2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cuo Viet is the name of both a river, a river region, and a base camp just north of the river.
		Just below the DMZ, and north of the mouth of the Cua Viet River, the C-4 base camp is here seen in respect to the surrounding terrain.
		This aerial photo shows the corner of Camp Kistler from a chopper during a rocket attack, with a hit to the fuel dump.
	grunt.space.swri.edu /visit/maps/maproom2.htm (473 words)

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		At some time before we got to Nha Be, two (I think two) of the Nha Be based River Sections had been shipped from Nha Be in III Corps to Cua Viet in I Corps.
		Sometime thereafter, one of the Cua Viet based River Section officers, then back in Nha Be, told me that Barry's convoy had come under NVA attack and that his LCU had been hit by recoilless rifle fire.
		As the convoy approached the mouth of the Hien Giang River it was ambushed by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces who were entrenched in heavily fortified bunkers along both banks of the river.
	www.usna64.org /Memorials/Barry__Hooper.doc (1295 words)

	Operation Hickory I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The 1st Amtrac Bn had barely set up their tents at Cua Viet when the first-ever major offensive operation by Marines into the southern half of the DMZ was launched on May 18, 1967.
		Hickory was the western portion of the operation (with Belt Tight handling the northeast quadrant of this area), Lam Son 54 handled the area in the middle, east of Hickory and west of Beau Charger, the latter of which covered the coastal plains portion (that 1st Amtracs would handle in Hickory II).
		They attacked westward along the southern half of the DMZ and then drove southward to the Cua Viet River adjacent to the 1st ARVNs who operated on their western flank.
	www.amtrac.org /1atbn/OpHickory01/OpHickory01.asp (833 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot
		'Birdcage' mines were a constant problem in the Cua Viet River with both civilian and military craft being sunk regularly with considerable loss of life.
		The trip north to Cua Viet was particularly interesting as the road passed through the ancient Vietnamese capital of Hue.
		During the Communist's 'Tet' (Lunar New Year) offensive of February 1968, Hue, surrounded by an ancient citadel and located on the Perfume River, was overrun and held by North Vietnamese troops and local VC for 26 days, before being recaptured by U.S. Forces.
	www.gunplot.net /vietnam/CDT3SVN5.html (1897 words)

	Richard Mishuk, SSG, Marine Corps, St Paul MN, 23Apr75 11E090 - The Virtual Wall® (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They were located in a Regimental area near the mouth of the Cua Viet River in Quang Tri Province, about 7 miles south of the DMZ.
		By 1400 informal search efforts had extended along the north bank of the river, and at 1530 LCPL Rihaly reported to his Company Commander that the three were missing.
		There were two obvious possibilities - that the three drowned in the Cua Viet River and were carried out to sea, or that they had been captured or killed by local Viet Cong forces (the area was not totally secure).
	www.virtualwall.org /dm/MishukRE01a.htm (507 words)

	MKVPICKET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We went north in a Mk IV LCPL #23, (towed by a LCU) to the mouth of the Cua Viet, where we were attached TAD to a Marine AmTrac Unit.
		We were the first patrol boat on the Cua Viet.
		When I left Cua Viet in 01/68, we were the only patrol boats on the Cua Viet.
	www.warboats.org /mkvpicket.htm (587 words)

	Cua Viet - Dong Ha
		For a description of just how dangerous the Cua Viet river mouth could be, see
		Swift Boats nested at the NSAD Cua Viet pier
		Cua Viet patrol areas were always hampered by the weather
	www.pcf45.com /cuaviet/cuaviet.html (390 words)

	Baldy's Pow - Mia Tribute
		river in a few hours as originally planned.
		By 1410 hours, the search was expanded to the bank of the Cua Viet River.
		Richard Mishuk and Leonard Lewandowski drowned in the Cua Viet River and
	baldy.esmartweb.com /index9.html (1059 words)

	Amgrunt Home Page
		Most of their Amtracs were parked and the Amtracers were used as grunts to patrol in the area of Cua Viet.
		In May of 1968, the battle for the Cua Viet River saw BLT 2/4 of the 3rd Marine Division go up against the N.V.A. 320th.
		The battle for the villages along the river just south of the DMZ was a test of guts and tenacity between two Armies that refused to give an inch.
	www.amgrunt.com (690 words)

	The Enemy Offensive in the DMZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Even with the arrival of the additional Army forces in the north, the division was still spread out from its Quang Tri base in the south, to Khe Sanh in the west, and to the Cua Viet in the east.
		On 20 January, enemy gunners positioned on the northern bank of the river forced the temporary closing of the Cua Viet.
		With the Cua Viet too shallow for large-draft vessels, the Naiy used both LCMs (landing craft, mechanized) and LCUs (landing craft, utility) to ply the river between the Cua Viet Facility and Dong Ha to bring in supplies to Marines in the DMZ sector.
	ehistory.osu.edu /vietnam/books/1968/0113.cfm (385 words)

	Vietnam 4 - Company D, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The units of the 320th NVA Division shell cargo shipments on the Cua Viet River with artillery, rockets and mortars.
		This action blocks river shipments and concerns military planners; the Cua Viet River is the major corridor for war goods flowing into Quang Tri Province.
		Alan Brook became the pattern of warfare in the river basins and coastal lowlands of Quang Nam.
	members.aol.com /Delta126History/Private/Delta/section_4.htm (4750 words)

	Memories of Dai Do
		To be closer to the action, my forward CP group and I boarded an armored LCM-6 "Monitor" of the River Assault Group and moved along the Cua Viet River to the vicinity of Bac Vong.
		Too bad, because the Cua Viet area was ideal country for tracked vehicles and we sorely missed the firepower of the thirty 106mm recoilless rifles of those light, highly mobile vehicles to make up for this loss we again mounted our organic 106mm recoilless rifles on the tops of amphibian tractors.
		A superior enemy force was driven from the river banks, and the vital Cua Viet and Bo Dieu Rivers were open to traffic.
	amgrunt.com /DaiDo.htm (10590 words)

	Not Without My Lieutenant
		Lieutenant Clark was already near the Cam Lo river that flowed east into the Cua Viet so he remained hidden with instruction to move to the water on the night of April 10th.
		Lieutenant Colonel Hambleton was a mile away from the river and had to be guided through a heavily coded series of messages related in simile to a golf course, towards the river and past thousands of NVA soldiers.
		That afternoon he was taken by armored personnel carrier to the last outpost on the Cua Viet River at Dong Ha, then flown to Da Nang.
	www.homeofheroes.com /brotherhood/seals.html (3688 words)

	Dateline Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the time, he was head man for the Viet Cong in the area.
		It was a pretty emotional moment when he returned this turtle to the new temple that had been erected in the village.
		We also held a memorial service for those who died during the battle, both the Marines and the enemy troops we had fought, on the banks of the Cua Viet River in the village of Dai Do.
	www.thehistorynet.com /vn/bldatelinevietnam/index2.html (1933 words)

	Oliver Jackson's USMC Homepage, Weapons Company 3/1 Sign-In Roster
		I was assigned to the Tank Platoon of BLT 3/1 in May 1968.
		At the end of May 68, my tour of duty with BLT 3/1 ended and we took one of the two remaining BLT tanks by mike boat from the Cua Viet River to Da Nang and joined our parent company, C Co. 1st Tank Bn.
		We participated in Operation Swift Saber north of the Cua Viet river.
	www.3onevet.com /1weapons.htm (241 words)

	The BROWNWATER NAVY IN VIETNAM GUESTBOOK sorted by topic
		You had things floating at you in the water, the Cua Viet river was lined with CORN fields.
		Cua Viet is 2 or 3 Klicks from the DMZ.
		Served on the Pitkin County from 7-67 to 9-68 and the USS Tutuila ARG-4 from 6-69 to 6-70.
	brownwater-navy.com /guestbook/DeNanggb.htm (13687 words)

	Not without my Lieutenant
		Six months after Navy SEAL Lieutenant Thomas R. Norris had penetrated a massive enemy force along the Cua Viet and Cam Lo Rivers just south of the DMZ to rescue two downed pilots, the enemy was in firm control of the area.
		Near the coast sat the Cua Viet River Base, once a center in American and ARVN defense of the Northern I Corps.
		The intent had been to insert the team south of the Cua Viet river so their northward movement would put them on a direct course with the river and the old Naval base.
	www.homeofheroes.com /brotherhood/seals2.html (2294 words)

	Visions of Vietnam - A Personal Perspective
		Navy boat mine sweeping on Cua Viet River fron Cua Viet to Dong Ha.
		Too bad I cannot make out the face on the helmsman in the photo, but it may have even been me. At the time this photo was taken we had completed the minesweepins and were patroling our area of the river.
		The "Tango" boats were designed to carry a platoon of infantry and be able to supply water, food, and ammo and gunfire support with our 20 mm, 4-50 cal, 3-30cal, guns and 2-mark 18 grenade launchers.
	www.popasmoke.com /visions/image.php?source=5005 (182 words)

	Visions of Vietnam - A Personal Perspective
		US Navy river boat was lost to mine on the Cua Viet River 1967 or 1968.
		The boat pictured is an ATC (Armored Troop Carrier), it struck a magnetic mine in March (I Believe) 1968.
		They were the lead boat in the right column of boats, it was our second day on the Qua Viet River.
	www.popasmoke.com /visions/image.php?source=5083 (106 words)

	VRC-50 Detachment at Danang AB, RVN
		The waters of the Han River have been Danang's fortune and its misery.
		In the 19th century, the city was the nation's most important port, but that very accessibility to trade inspired the French to invade in 1858, renaming the city Tourane.
		When the squadron changed homeports to NAS North Island, the detachments that were in the westpac area were designated as "Permanent", this is where the confusion comes in.
	www.vrc-50.org /danang.htm (1009 words)

	Pictures from Richard Lennon's 1996 Vietnam Trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At this point, you are approximately 50 yards from Cua Viet River and beach
		Small building in middle of picture is a lookout station manned by police guarding mouth of Cua Viet River
		Small cement structure barely visible across on north bank of river is beginning of a ship loading ramp to be used to unload cargo for further transport down river to Dong Ha
	grunt.space.swri.edu /lennon1.htm (882 words)

	Joint Operation Forces
		River Patrol Force (Task Force 116) on 18 December 1965.
		The PBR, the ubiquitous workhorse of the River Patrol Force, was manned by a
		Perfume River (which gave access to Hue from the sea) and the Cua Viet River.
	www34.brinkster.com /jointop/Jof/History/531history.htm (1828 words)

	Herman W. Hughes - Reflections On My Tour of Duty in Vietnam 1968-1969
		Task Force Clearwater provided security on the Cua Viet and Perfume rivers utilizing various types of river patrol craft, most common of which was the PBR (Patrol Boat River).
		Whenever we suspected swimmers in the river the flares went up to take away the advantage of darkness from the enemy.
		During my three months at Cua Viet, I participated in numerous patrols on the rivers, in the air and on land with the Navy, the Marine Corps and Vietnamese navy (Junk Force).
	www.vfwpost2015.com /woody.html (1815 words)

	:: Our Heroes - POW/MIAs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On October 19, 1966, their Marine Corps unit was operating in northern Quang Nam Province about 15 miles northwest of Da Nang when the three men went missing.
		Oddly, USMC notations indicate that the three were swimming near the Cua Viet River when they were last seen, yet the incident is considered battle-related.
		They were told that the unit tracked their son for months as the Viet Cong moved him from village to village.
	www.jlaux.org /burke (951 words)

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