Firebase Veghel is a former U.S. Army and

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(ARVN)

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located southwest of

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in central Vietnam.

History

On 16 April 1968, the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry began an assault on two hills approximately 27km southwest of Huế on Route 547 in preparation for Operation Delaware. The hills were finally captured on 19 April and the firebase was constructed there. The base was named after the Dutch town of

Veghel Veghel () is a town and a former municipality in the southern Netherlands. On 1 January 2017 Veghel, together with Schijndel and Sint-Oedenrode, merged into a new municipality called Meierijstad creating the largest municipality of the provinc ...

, one of the drop zones during the World War II operation

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, which was captured by the

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of the

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in September 1944. Units based at Veghel included: * 83rd Artillery * 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry * 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Veghel was abandoned and reopened at various times between 1968 and 1971. It was reopened in March 1969 to support

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and again in February 1971 to support

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. Veghel was subsequently used by the ARVN and was captured by the

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during the Easter Offensive, but recaptured by the ARVN 1st Infantry Division in October 1972.

References

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