![]() ![]() "We were dangling out there like a piece of bait with no protection," Jones said. ![]() Jones said right from the start, the Soldiers had a bad feeling because they weren't allowed to get their ammo off the face of the hill. Ralph Jones was a young Soldier with A Battery, 2-32nd FA when the unit and the two self-propelled 8-inch guns and several tons of ammunition were assigned to FSB Illingworth as added protection. ![]() The base overlooked a heavily-used North Vietnamese Army route. ![]() The artillery units are current or former Fort Sill units. The manning of FSB Illingworth, five miles from the Cambodian border, was made up of elements from several units including B Battery, 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery A Battery, 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery B Battery, 5th Battalion, 2nd Field Artillery and Companies C and E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. at the unit monument on Courage Drive.Courage Drive is south of Minor Road along Crane Avenue, between Minor Road and the Impact Zone Brewery.Īpwas the deadliest day of the deadliest month of the year in Vietnam and the ad hoc patch on a hill with no perimeter fence between them and the wood line, was right in the middle of the carnage. That's why the men of A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery said it is important to have a reunion this year, the 40th anniversary of the battle. įorty years ago today, the survivors of the battle of Fire Support Base Illingworth were trying to figure out which of their battle buddies were alive and which they would never see again. Twenty-four Soldiers were killed and 54 were wounded in the attack by. Ralph Jones, right with hands on hips, surveys damage to his 8-inch mobile howitzer caused by a rocket-propelled grenade at Fire Support Base Illingworth in Vietnam April 1, 1970. ![]()
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