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Use 6541-4 vice 6541-IV (actual sheet number)       • Southern A Shau Valley (6441-4) Lat/Long <=> UTM Converter  • Alt  • Convert D-M-S to Decimal Reading 1:50K Map Coordinates  • Alt Ray's Map Room **** (1:50K topos of major actions)    • Pleiku-Kontum-Dak To    • Saigon-Cu Chi-Lai Khe    • QL19 - Qui Nhon-Pleiku    • Street Without Joy (Northern I Corps)  • Map only SEA Outline Map (b&w)  • Source Southeast Asia: Topography Geography of Vietnam Laos Map (CIA, expandable)    • NVA Base Areas, Southern Laos (map) West Point Vietnam War Maps Historical Geography of Vietnam Spelling Vietnamese Geographical Names Interactive Maps (PBS) French Indochina (NMUSAF)    • Vietnam 1954-1975 (NMUSAF) Major US Units in Vietnam (c 1969-70)  • N I Corps SEA Maps (1:250K) (Jim Henthorn)    • South Vietnam  • North Vietnam    • NE4816: Northern I Corps  • Individual Sections    • Laos Maps  • Lima Site Locatons Maps of Vietnam (vietvet.org) Hue map **** (c 1968: detailed, 1:12.5K)  • Key    • Partial Index w/ images of selected features    • Map & Index (NARA: single sheet, very large file) Hue and south (Sheet 6541-4, 1:50K)       • 1:50K sheets surrounding Hue Map: Hue, 1968 **** (b&w)  • Colorized & More    • Hue: New City only Hue ,1945 (OSS)  • More Map: Hue to Phu Loc (1:250K) RVN Northern two provinces (1:250K, expandable) N I Corps 1:50K Map Downloads ****  • Index    • Specific Location thumbnails    • A Shau SF Camp  • Khe Sanh area    • Quang Tri Province FSBs  • Interactive map I Corps Tactical Zone (outline)  • Source I Corps Maps 1:50K maps w/ index (1/9 Marines) I Corps Maps 1:50K w/ FB Coordinates (1/9 Marines) I Corps Maps (Marine AOs w/ map glossary)    • USMC Unit Locations (w/ timelines)  • Detailed I Corps Maps (Americal AOs) N I Corps (Quang Tri & Thua Thien provinces: outline) Quang Tri Province (major locations) Leatherneck Square    • Map  • Map  • w/ Major Battles    • Firebase Gio Linh (A-2)  • Photo    • Dong Ha CB  • Photo  • Photo (Oct 68)  • Map    • Cam Lo Combat Base  • Bridge    • Con Thien Combat Base  • Aerial Photo Quang Tri Combat Support Base  • More (slow)    • Photo (Jun 68)  • Photo    • Color Image  • Video Quang Tri - 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Interdiction Role of Interdiction Infiltration Routes  • HCM & Sihanouk Trails Ho Chi Minh Trail  • Significance  • More (AF Mag)    • HCM Trail: Geography & LS 719    • HCMT Maps  • More  • More    • HCM & Sihanouk Trails HCM Trail History  • More    • NVA History  • More  • Today HCMT photos  • Video (NVn views)       • HCMT Photos c 2013  • HCMT photos: then & now Ho Chi Minh Trail Overview (animated tutorial) Building the Ho Chi Minh Trail (JSTOR)    • Group 559 (built, operated HCMT) NVA Base Areas, Southern Laos (map) Passes, Fords, Choke Points on HCM Trail (maps ****) Four Key Passes, North VIetnam to Northern Laos Choke Points on HCMT ("The Chokes")  • Alt    • Choke Points in Lam Son 719 Tchepone (map)  • Another  • Route 9 (Laos) Ban Laboy Ford & HCMT Ho Chi Minh Trail Bibliography Ho Chi Minh Trail Report (JSTOR, 1972) NVA Logistics in Support of Ops in RVN  • Pt 2 Use of Bicycles on the Trail  • More Targeting the Trail (nucs)  • Background Ho Chi Minh Trail Campaign    • Photo Recon Techniques Over the Trail Early Covert Action on HCM Trail Road Watch Teams  • Operation Hardnose (63-68) Keeping an Eye on the Ho Chi Minh Trail Reports From the Trail (Pathet Lao) Interdiction in Southern Laos, 1960-68 (e-book)    • War Against Trucks: Southern Laos,1968-72 Bombing the HCMT (pilot narrative: Merrill McPeak) Air-Grnd Ops Against the Trail, 1966-72 Tiger Hound  • More A-26: Early Truck Killer Prop vs. Jet Aircraft Controversy Trucks in the Open (photo/story) Operation Shed Light (low-light sensor R&D) C-123 Flare Mission (narrative) Blind Bat Interdiction Mission ****    • Blind Bat in the FAC Role    • Blind Bat and LGB Deployment Blind Bat Flare Mission (AF Mag)  • More Gunships (internal link) AC-130's Over the Trail    • Video  • More    • More AC-130 video  • More Truck Count (AC-130 Ops) Map Accuracy & Truck Count Verification A-6s and Rockeyes NKP Portal NKP - Invert 5  • More FACs in the Out of Country War O-1s Over the Trail in Laos (photo essay) O-2 in Interdiction (tactics & technology) Psychological Warfare Against the HCMT McNamara Line  • Background    • Jason Project & McNamara Line  • Alt  • More  • Alt Igloo White  • Details  • More  • More (slow)  • AF Mag    • Early passwords  • Project Dye Marker  • Jason Project (IDA)  • More    • Igloo White: the Automated Battlefield ****    • Igloo White CHECO Report (31 Jul 68)       • Jul 68 - Dec 69  • Jan 70 - Sep 71    • "Bugging the Battlefield" (DoD video, 1969)       • Alt  • Abbreviated    • ADSID (Air-Delivered Seismic Intrusion Detector)  • More       • ADSID III Image  • Description  • Schematic       • High Speed ADSID dispenser       • T-1151 Dog Doo Transmitter  • More    • 553 Recon Wg (Batcat)  • History  • Overview       • EC-121 Aircraft  • More  • EC-121R    • EC-121R Photo  • Another  • More    • QU-22 Pave Eagle  • More  • More  • More  • Photo    • OP-2 Sensor Support (VO-67)  • More  • More       • More  • More  • Photo  • More  • More    • Sensors at Khe Sanh Quiet Aircraft (internal link) 7th ACCS (Hillsboro; now 42ACCS) Operation Tailwind Jimmie Butler's Photos (NKP) HCMT Trail Today (photos)    • Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)  • More  • Graphic Out of Country Ops Thailand, Laos & Cambodia Brotherhood (links!) 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