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Camp Eagle, located between Camp Evans and Phu Bai, was a very large military base, and is not known to have ever been over-run. Normally Firebases were over-run, such as Lang Vei or Mary Ann, and possibly Ripcord. Often times, an "over-run", is mistaken for "sappers in the wire" (commandos/infiltrators in the wire) or a probe (testing the defenses); Firebases, as well as large Camps experienced those actions. Firebase Vandergrift experienced a sapper attack which damaged the JP4 (aviation fuel) fuel dump during LAM SON 719, and the word was spread that the firebase was being over run; some GI's present during that attack, had reportedly been present when Firebase Vandergrift had been over-run during an earlier campaign when manned by US Marines. In both cases the enemy had been beaten back...or withdrew after completing their mission.
The SE portion of Camp Eagle was reportedly a Marine base and was known by another name (Cha Lai?) prior to being taken over in '68 by the 101st. The base was reportedly attacked during the Tet offensive in 1968. There were some bullet holes in some of the hooches but most likely it was not overrun.
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Does anyone know if the 101st ABN Airmoble Unit in November 1969 through November 1970 Camp Eagle Vietnam ever underfire by means of a sapper attack or mortar or anyother else?
The Vietnam Memorial pages don't mention the camp name, but do give the Thua Thien province as the place of death of a number of 101st men during this time. Some died from small arms fire and some from fragmentation. Others died in helicopter crashes. So, yes. The answer is actually easier than that. Anywhere they send the 101st into a combat situation, they will be in a hot area. That is the nature of Airborne. There was no large camp or firebase that did not receive sniper fire, rockets, mortars, and sappers coming under the wire. And the time frame in the question, less than a year after the Tet offensive, was a very rough time for people stationed near Hue (where Camp Eagle was located).
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Does anyone know if the 101st ABN Airmoble Unit in November 1969 through November 1970 Camp Eagle Vietnam ever underfire by means of a sapper attack or mortar or anyother else?
The Vietnam Memorial pages don't mention the camp name, but do give the Thua Thien province as the place of death of a number of 101st men during this time. Some died from small arms fire and some from fragmentation. Others died in helicopter crashes. So, yes. The answer is actually easier than that. Anywhere they send the 101st into a combat situation, they will be in a hot area. That is the nature of Airborne. There was no large camp or firebase that did not receive sniper fire, rockets, mortars, and sappers coming under the wire. And the time frame in the question, less than a year after the Tet offensive, was a very rough time for people stationed near Hue (where Camp Eagle was located).
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