The Battle of Ben Het was a North Vietnamese armored assault on the Ben Het Special Forces Camp. It was the only tank battle between the United States and North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.. At 21:00 on March 3 the Ben Het camp came under recoilless rifle fire, and was shelled with heavy mortars and artillery between 21:30 and 22:00. Over. Ben Het Camp (also known as Ben Het Special Forces Camp, Ben Het Ranger Camp and FSB Ben Het) is a former U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base northwest of Kon Tum in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.The camp was notable for being the site of a tank battle between the U.S. Army and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), one of the few such encounters during the Vietnam War.
One of two PT76s from the PAVN 202nd Armored Regiment, destroyed by US M48 Pattons from the 1
As reported on the combat seen by The 1/92nd Field Artillery. segment by Sean Flynn (son of Errol) who was killed a few months later. Below is a clip from the Stars and Stripes News from the battle on June 26. B52s SATURATE BEN HET JUNGLES *Stars and Stripes Thursday, June 26, 1969. SAIGON (UPI)- American B52 bombers unloaded. MAJ Mike Linnane, USA (Ret) Special Forces, Team A-244 describes 1969 Ben Het battle. Ben Het at night is a scene that is at once beautiful and fascinating, weird and horrible. Dali, Goya, Bach, The Beatles, Hemingway and Zanuck would understand. Flares hang in the sky, casting milky, light purple shadows.. Drop back by tomorrow for more home front news of the Battle of Ben Het as it appeared in 1969.
A PT76 knocked out by an M48 during the Battle of Ben Het, 3rd March 1969 r/Warthunder
The Battle of Ben Het was the only PAVN-US Army tank battle during the course of the Vietnam War. 10 PT-76s faced 3 M48s. On March 3, 1969, the Special Forces' Ben Het Camp was attacked by the PAVN 202nd Armored Regiment. The 202nd was given the task of destroying the camp's 175 mm self-propelled guns. Ben Het Camp is a former U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam base northwest of Kon Tum in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The camp was notable for being the site of a tank battle between the U.S. Army and the People's Army of Vietnam , one of the few such encounters during the Vietnam War. The battle of Dak To (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Đắk Tô - Tân Cảnh) in Vietnam was a series of major engagements of the Vietnam War that took place between 3 and 23 November 1967,. The battalion was moved west of Đắk Tô to the Ben Het CIDG Camp to protect the construction of Fire Support Base 12 on 2 November. The PAVN's official. The 84-year-old Queenslander was on secondment to Special Forces during the Vietnam War when in May 1969 he rescued 40 fellow soldiers despite suffering numerous wounds during the Battle of Ben Het.
Green Beret describes harrowing tank attack during Battle of Ben Het We Are The Mighty
Ben Het was a special forces camp overlooking one of the many infiltration points into South Vietnam from the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Among the units there were Operational Detachment Alpha A-244, which consisted of 12 Green Berets.. A PT-76 that was destroyed during the Battle of Ben Het. (US Army photo) The North Vietnamese were beaten back. The Battle of Ben Het was a North Vietnamese armored assault on the Ben Het Special Forces Camp. It was the only tank battle between the United States and North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The Ben Het Camp Special Forces Camp was located along the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia tri-border area and run by the 5th Special Forces Group. At the time of the battle, there were 12 Green Beret advisers and.
The Ben Het SF camp was located about 15km west of Dak To airfield. 11km further west is the Cambodian border.. PT-76s from the PAVN 202nd Armored Regiment, destroyed by US M48 Pattons, from the 1/69th Armored battalion, during the battle of Ben Het, March 3, 1969, Vietnam A Battery Platoon was at Ben Het, with the mission of GSR with priority of fires to Ben Het counter battery. B Battery was located at FSB 6 (YA863265) 7 km southwest of Dak To. C Battery (-) was located at LZ Bass (ZA028935) 22 km west of Kontum and C Battery Platoon was located at FSB 12, Ben Het, 15 km northwest of Dak To.
The 6/14 Arty Siege of Ben Het
The story of the Battle of DakTo-Ben Het is told very well in four reference articles attached: The NVA's Operation Dien Bien Phu: The 1969 Siege of Ben Het in The VVA Veteran by John Prados, August/September 2003. Unit History of the 1/92 nd Field Artillery, Valorous Unit Citation, 04 May-June 1969, by Col. Bohdan Prehar. The Battle of Ben Het. Marines ride an M42A tank in Vietnam (Public domain) Late in the evening on March 3rd, 1969, a camp by the name of Ben Het came under intense fire. The area was shelled by heavy mortars and peppered by explosive recoilless rifle fire. The Americans scrambled to locate the source of the incoming fire.
