Talk:Vandegrift Combat Base/@comment-96.228.85.155-20190402223947

D-Co. of 9th Engineer Bn. was TDY to 11th Engineer Bn. and cleared and stripped 270 acres and put in the wire and mine field around the perimeter from November 1967 to January 18, 1968. All of this was done in less than 2 months during the monsoon season. The convoy coming into the base was hit on Jan. 13, 1968 by the NVA with somewhere around 30 KIA Marines.

Norman Ryan, D-Co. 3rd Platoon, 9th Engineer Bn. 1st Mar. Div.