Playing Around in Vietnam

[SeaQueen]

It'd be interesting to find maps of ground operations with phase lines and what not.

[tjhkkr]

ORIGINAL: SeaQueen
It'd be interesting to find maps of ground operations with phase lines and what not.

There is not much in the way of good maps AT ALL.
There are not good maps of bridges or even targets on the Ho Chi Min Trail.
You can get some topographical maps on the area around Khe Sanh and Hue... but not much in the way of where suspected 130mm positions were etc.
You can also get some good maps on North Vietnamese Air Bases... but good maps are difficult to find.

Or at least, I have not been able to find them.

[stilesw]

tjhkkr,

Thanks for these references. Now included in the unofficial CMANO Dropbox reference library.

-Wayne

Forum members who want access to this Dropbox library can PM me with your email address.

[temkc5]

This seemed to be the best place for this

US & Australian facilities during the Vietnam War google earth file

[SeaQueen]

I suspect so much of this stuff was classified and/or shredded. Getting it probably would require a lot of FOIA requests. The good news is that at this point, the declassify-on dates for most of this stuff have probably lapsed so that if you did FOIA it, you could probably get the majority of it. The National Air and Space Museum has a really great map of the DCA plan for the aircraft carriers during the Gulf of Sidra crisis with Libya. I'm sure there's other stuff out there if you know where to look.

ORIGINAL: tjhkkr
There is not much in the way of good maps AT ALL.
There are not good maps of bridges or even targets on the Ho Chi Min Trail.
You can get some topographical maps on the area around Khe Sanh and Hue... but not much in the way of where suspected 130mm positions were etc.
You can also get some good maps on North Vietnamese Air Bases... but good maps are difficult to find.

Or at least, I have not been able to find them.