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Finding Captain Jones

In the amazing book, Nine Days In May (Warren Wilkins), he begins the section involving the 3-12 Infantry by briefly covering the action of May

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Mark Coonrad October 19, 2024 No Comments

3-12 Infantry operational summary, April 25th thru April 30th, 1967

US Army’s 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division operational summary for the period of April 25th-30th, 1967. II Corps, Pleiku Province. The 3-12

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Mark Coonrad October 17, 2024 No Comments

Archival footage from November 1967 – Battalion firebases on Hills 530 & 1030

On October 1st, 2024, I sent an email to the Moving Image and Sound Branch of the National Archives in College Park Maryland. Good afternoon

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Mark Coonrad October 11, 2024 No Comments

January 1968 Map Story

January 1968 Map Story The below arcGIS map story is a work in progress. All text items were compiled and summarized by Mark Coonrad from

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Mark Coonrad July 18, 2024 1 Comment

Timeline – 3-12 Infantry Battalion Firebase – 1969

The location cited at the beginning of each paragraph was the location of the 3-12 Infantry battalion firebase/TOC. In most cases, the other elements of

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Mark Coonrad July 6, 2024 1 Comment

History Blog Post #7 – March 1967 – Part 1 – the 101st Airborne at Hill 86, a prelude to March 9th, 1967

1967 – MARCH From September of 1966 to February of 1967, the Braves of the 3-12 had become acclimated to this new style of guerrilla

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Mark Coonrad March 13, 2024 No Comments

History Blog Post #6 – 1967 – January & February – The Pond.

1967 – JANUARY & FEBRUARY 1967 started for the battalion much as 1966 had ended.  Operation Adams continued, moving into the fifth and final phase

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Mark Coonrad August 4, 2023 No Comments

History Blog Post #5 – Phu Yen Province – December 1966

The soldiers of the 3-12 Infantry were also encountering an enemy that was the master of the booby trap.  Punji stake traps, filled with wooden

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Mark Coonrad August 18, 2020 No Comments

History Blog Post #4 – A probe on an NDP – December 1st thru December 7th, 1966

As the tropical winter months of 1966 continued, the Braves soon found out that enemy grenades could be just as deadly as friendly ones.  On

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Mark Coonrad August 9, 2020 No Comments

History Blog Post #3 – Arrival to Vietnam – Tuy Hoa – September thru November 1966

ARRIVAL – TUY HOA – A SEASON OF FIRSTS As the Gordon pulled into port in Nha Trang on Wednesday, October 5th, the men aboard

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Mark Coonrad August 7, 2020 No Comments
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