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>Howdy Larry; > >Boy, what a lousy place! There's nothing out there >except jungles, mountains, and hostiles. Plei Trap >Valley is in Kontum Province near the Cambodian border >and completely surrounded by mountains (see the 3rd >and 4th maps from the left on the bottom row at >http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/mapnd4808.html) . The >coordinates for LZ Swinger (YA837699) would place it >about half-way between the City of Kontum and the >border. On the date that you were wounded (3/30/69), >there were 5 men KIA from your company (A/3/12th >Inf.), all due to "Hostile, Ground Casualty, Multiple >Fragmentation Wounds" and all in Kontum Province. >Their names are: > >SFC Arthur Milton Bradberry >PFC James Carl Fox >SP4 Johnny Allison Gibson >SGT Charles Michael Lamby >SGT Fred D. Smith > >There is a lousy photograph of SP4 Gibson posted on >the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Wall Page posted by a >buddy of his. I didn't check the Virtual Wall to see >if any of these guys have remembrances posted there. >I'll let you do that. > >Does this ring a bell? In an After-Action Report for >early 1969 for C Battery, 1st Battalion, 92nd Field >Artillery is the following: > >"The move to and occupation of LZ Swinger proved to be >a significant period of action. It was considered to >be a "hot LZ". A Company, 3d Battalion, 12th Infantry, >1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division air lifted into >Swinger. The battle that followed left 30 enemy dead >while the company had one KIA and 14 WIA. On 2 March >1969 the last of Battery C equipment arrived at LZ >Swinger. ON 3 March 1969 the first rounds of enemy >artillery fire hit LZ Swinger. The enemy continued to >fire at LZ Swinger at various intervals for the >remainder of the time that the battery was on the Fire >Support Base. The battery was on LZ Swinger for 45 >days, 32 of these days the battery received enemy >incoming rounds. A breakdown of enemy rounds received >is as follows: 105mm 78 rounds; 75mm recoiless rifle, >41 rounds; 82mm mortar, 70 rounds; 85mm mortar, 3 >rounds; and 60mm mortar, 4 rounds for a total of 196 >rounds of enemy fire. In response to the incoming >Battery C fired a total of 528 high explosive rounds, >145 Improved Conventional Munitions and 39 white >phosphorous rounds in counterbattery programs. On 25 >March 1969, a PPS counter personnel radar belonging to >3/8 Infantry was emplaced on LZ Swinger. The battery >employed the PPS radar on the 27th, 28th and 29th of >March 1969 firing a total of 103 high explosive >rounds, 24 Improved Conventional Munitions and 3 white >phosphorous rounds against targets obtained by use of >the radar. While in General Support of the 1st >Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in the Plei Trap >Valley, Battery C fired a total of 10,113 rounds. >While there on LZ Swinger the only way to get supplies >to the battery was by airlift. It became apparent that >the enemy was trying to hit the resupply helicopters >as they approached and landed at the LZ. In answer to >this, the battery would fire countermortar and >counterbattery programs while the helicopters were >unloading their cargo. As a result of this no >helicopters were seriously damaged while resupplying >the battery."
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