Camp Carroll
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Camp Carroll (also known as Artillery Plateau, Firebase Tan Lam and Hill 241) was a
History
1966–70
The 3rd Marine Division had overall command and control of the DMZ area.[1] The camp was commissioned on November 10, 1966 (aka Camp J. J. Carroll) and became home for the
Camp Carroll diminished in significance after the 1968
1972
On 30 March 1972, the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched their Easter Offensive. PAVN rockets and artillery shells slammed into Camp Carroll as the opening phase of the First Battle of Quảng Trị. The base received more than 200 rounds of 130mm fire in the first hour of the attack. On 2 April 1972, ARVN Lieutenant Colonel Pham Van Dinh, commander of the 56th Regiment, 3rd Division, surrendered the facility to the PAVN. Fifteen hundred ARVN troops were captured along with 22 artillery pieces, including a six-gun battery of M107s and numerous quad-50's and twin-40's, the largest artillery assemblage in I Corps. B-52 strikes were ordered against Camp Carroll in an effort to deny its use to the PAVN. However, the PAVN removed the 175mm guns from the camp before the strikes could occur. These guns were later used against the ARVN.[4]: 30 [5]
Current use
At present the land belongs to Xi Nghiep Ho Tieu Lam, the Vietnamese state-operated pepper enterprise.
References
- ISBN 978-1-481219-46-4.
- ISBN 0-8173-1414-8.
- ^ "Headquarters MACV Monthly Summary December 1968" (PDF). Headquarters United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. 15 February 1969. p. 44. Retrieved 9 March 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Ngo, Quang Truong (1980). The Easter offensive of 1972 (PDF). U.S. Army Center of Military History. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 13, 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Brush, Peter. "Big Guns of Camp Carroll". Leatherneck.com. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
External links
- Army map of Camp Carroll location
- Surrender of Camp Carroll, vnafmamn.com
- Modern photos and video of the site