![]() ![]() Any medical evacuation required significant air support to temporarily dowse incoming fire. They were left to rot in the hot sun leaving a horrible smell and sight.Īs the day wore on, conditions on LZ Professional had become severe. The intense incoming prevented carcasses of the dead NVA from being removed from the LZ's perimeter wire. The LZ received a continuous barrage of incoming mortar rounds and rocket fire from a recoilless on the adjacent hill 497. On the morning after the attack the remains of twenty NVA sappers killed in action were left stranded in the perimeter line barbed wire. C, 1/14 Arty, was surprise attacked an NVA sapper unit from the V-16 NVA Sapper Battalion. On a moonless night, at 0220 hours on May 12, 1969, LZ Professional, defended by Co. and 1st/502 Inf., a helicopter assault unit, B Troop 2nd Squadron /17th Air Cavalry.Ī massive show of NVA firepower and endurance The 101st Airborne Division units directly affected were the infantry companies of two battalions, the 1st/501st Inf. The Americal units directly affected were the 1/46th Infantry companies and C Battery, 1st/14th Arty, which maintained 105mm artillery atop LZ Professional. Most of these counts were sustained in intense combat during the month of May. May 15 became the start of a joint Americal/101st Airborne effort named Operation Lamar Plain that continued until mid-August 1969.įrom May 12 to the conclusion of Operation Lamar Plain, US casualties counted to 125 US KIA, 460 US WIA, and 1 US MIA. battalion was placed under the operational control (OPCON) of the 101st brigade, which was in-turn OPCON to the Americal Division. The 101st Airborne's, 1st Brigade brought a force of two infantry battalions, the 2nd Squadron /17th Air Cav, teams of OH-6A "Loaches" armed with 7.65 mm miniguns, AH-1G Cobras (aerial rocket artillery), a 105mm Artillery battery, a company of UH-1 Hueys, and a section of CH-47 Chinooks and a team of Air Force forward controllers. The attack on LZ Professional escalated into a Tactical Emergency (TAC-E.) on when a full airmobile brigade of the 101st Airborne Division was dispatched into the area. One of the most intense attacks occurred in the "free-fire zone" around LZ Professional patrolled by the 1/46 Infantry. On May 12, 1969, the North Vietnam Army (NVA) began a major offensive throughout the Americal Division area of operations at LZ's Baldy, Center, and Professional. Sources include Americal Division after-action reports, 1/46 Infantry daily staff journals, the Operation Lamar Plain after-action report filed by the 101st Airborne Division, Medal of Honor documentation, and an August 1993 Vietnam Magazine article titled Recon Zone Alpha written by John Hayes. It is a reconstruction of events from declassified official records as well as the personal recollections of veterans from Americal units who were involved. This story is about a combat event that happened in May, 1969 in the area around the fire support base named LZ Professional. I am including a recollection of the event from Rick Olson,found on this website:įrom: AMERICAL NEWSLETTER: VIETNAM NEWS NETWORK Dunagan,Commanding Officer of Alpha Co.,1st/46th Infantry,196th Light Infantry Brigade for heroic action in May 1969. Critical reception was also mixed, with many expecting a title that would sell the PS2's power and instead got an admittedly fun puzzler whose particle effects were more technically impressive in a granular sense.I just picked up this patch,have'nt yet received it,so the pics are'nt mine.The unit from this patch has an interesting history they were involved in a battleįor their lives and were nearly routed by North Vietnamese forces,who outnumbered them 3 to 1.Given the Medal of Honor for his action in this battle wasĬpt. ![]() The game had not been a big seller outside of Japan - the 15th-best-selling PS2 launch game in North America according to The NPD Group. ![]() PS4 players were surprised enough to see the title revived with Fantavision trophies back in 2015. However, what is a surprise is that any of this is happening with the PS2 classic at all. Given that the only Fantavision titles to release since 2000 have all been for mobile phones, and with previous developer Japan Studio having been closed by Sony to make way for PlayStation Studios' Team Asobi, it's no surprise that development here is in the hands of a relatively unknown third party. Fantavision 202X bringing the charms of the PS2 into the virtual reality! Fantavision sequel updating PS2 puzzler for PS VR2 launchThe news comes via the PlayStation Blog and states that production will be handled by Cosmo Machia - a developer mostly known for smartphone games. ![]()
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