Michelin Rubber Plantation Vietnam Map

Michelin rubber plantation was located near dầu tiếng district in bình dương province 72 km northwest of saigon.

Michelin rubber plantation vietnam map. Jaques map sheet 6429 4 545kb parrot s beak cambodia map sheet 6230 4 419kb. Hhc 2nd battalion 28th infantry orderly room and the co s ford built jeep october 1967. Michelin rubber plantation was located near dầu tiếng district in bình dương province 72 km northwest of saigon. The donut dollies red cross girls lived in the house next door the building behind this house on the right edge of this picture.

Camp rainier was built in november 1966 by the 2 12th and 2 22nd and became the 3rd brigade 4th div base camp. Yet we paid the owners of the michelin plantations 600 for each rubber tree we damaged while the family of a slain vietnamese child got no more than 120 in payout for a life the aftermath of a november 27 1965 battle at the michelin rubber plantation that claimed more than 100 lives. The plantation was established by the michelin company in 1925 and at 12 400 hectares 31 000 acres it was the largest rubber plantation in vietnam. Bến củi is a commune of dương minh châu district tây ninh province vietnam the area of the commune is 34 26 km and the population in 1999 was 4 802 people.

I think it s interesting that we talk about the effects of the american use of defoliants in vietnam but say nothing about the french totally destroying the original tropical forest and planting a monoculture of millions of rubber trees a non native species from brazil. The rubber trees offered excellent cover from aerial observaton and difficult to see into from the ground. Home to michelin rubber plantation to our right and the ben cui rubber plantation to our left. A glorious hiding spot for the vc.

Bến củi was the site of a rubber plantation nông trường cao su bến củi that was part of the michelin rubber plantation near dầu tiếng republic of vietnam. Gaynor said there was a story that his body was found one morning with that of another vc after a nighttime. Dau tieng area michelin rubber plantation map sheet 6231 1 627kb blackhorse base home of 11th acr map sheet 6430 4 439kb xuan loc site of heroic arvn defense in april 1975 map sheet 6430 4 505kb vung tau in country r r center cape st. It was one of the original french plantation houses michelin rubber plantation at lai khe.

In 1966 it was established as the base camp for the 1st infantry division and and was turned over to the 1st cavalry division and the 11th armored cavalry when the big red one. Quan loi vietnam f irst known by the army as lz andy could be found approximately 60 miles north of saigon and 10 miles from the cambodian border near the town of an loc the provincial capitol of binh long province.