Album 6 - LZ Betty (Base Camp) (click on thumbnails) |
| In January 1968, the 3/506 battalion of the 101st Airborne Division was deployed to LZ Betty. The battalion's new base camp was located on the South China Sea coast one mile south of Phan Thiet, the province capitol. Soon after arriving, the enemy launched their ambitious and bloody Tet Offensive. When it was over three weeks later, one-third of the men in my company's four rifle platoons were casualties. | ||
| Perimeter Bunkers and Observation Tower.
Between these hulking sandbag bunkers and the Phan Thiet countryside lay barbed wire fences and minefields. |
  A jeep path ran along Betty's entire perimeter near the bunkers. The bunkers were used mostly for perimeter watch. |
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| Company tents. |   When in base camp, the men lived in bunkers or tents. The tents were closer to the beach and to breezes from the South China Sea . |
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| POW make-shift prison at LZ Betty |
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| Aide Station and Battalion HQ building |
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