VIETNAM WAR PATCH, US 190th ASSAULT HELICOPTER Co. SPARTANS

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THIS ITEM MEASURES 3 IN X 4 IN.
The
190th AHC
arrived to Vietnam and was assigned to the 145th on 2 September 1967, shortly there after to be sent on temporary duty to I Corp
with the Marines and returned to Bien Hoa on the 16th of November 1967.
On 7 December 1967, the 190th Assault Helicopter Company conducted
airmobile operations with the 4th Bn, 7th Rgt, 5th Inf Div (ARVN). The
unit was to receive an ATT in conjunction with a search and destroy
operation. The landing zone was prepared for the assault by artillery and
air strikes under the command of an aircraft from the 74th Reconnaissance
Airplane Company. The first assault went as planned with negative fire
received. The second assault into LZ#2 met with heavy automatic weapons
fire from the right front. Chalk 10 was shot down in the landing zone and
chalk 9 made an emergency landing eight hundred meters north of the LZ.
This aircraft had received sixteen hits. The troops in LZ #2 were pinned
down under voluminous enemy fire and without the planned, subsequent lift,
were in danger of annihilation. On the next lift into the LZ the lead
aircraft was engulfed by intense enemy fire that wounded or killed all of
the ARVN troops on board. Several other aircraft in flight were hit causing
two to make forced landings in the pickup zone and another at Cu Chi...
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