Coop Ben Het Camp

DATE: 03/02/2022

TIME (GMT): 19:00

ERA: Vietnam

MAP(S): A Shau Valley

TYPE: COOP

GAME: Arma 3

EVENT: Official

AUTHOR(S): Aris for Brothers in Arms

SLOTS: 108 / 120

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Ben Het Camp is a former U.S. Army base northwest ofKon Tum in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The camp was notable for being the site of a tank battle between the U.S. Army and the People s Army of Vietnam(PAVN), one of the few such encounters during the Vietnam War.

Throughout February the PAVN attacked the camp by fire. The shelling decreased at the beginning of March, but at 21.00 on 3 March the PAVN shelling began again and men of the 1 69th Armor heard the sound of tank engines coming from the west. APT-76of the PAVN 16th Company, 4th Battalion, 202nd Armored Regiment detonated an antitank mine 1,100 meters to the southwest of the base, which alerted the camp and lit up the other PT-76s attacking the base. Flares were sent up, exposing the attacking tanks, but by sighting in on muzzle flashes, one PT-76 scored a direct hit on the turret of an M-48, killing two crewmen and wounding the other two. Another M-48, using the same technique, destroyed a PT-76 with their second shot.

At daybreak, the battlefield revealed the wreckage of two PT-76s and one BTR-50 armored personnel carrier but no PAVN dead. Intelligence later revealed that the main object of the attack was to destroy the M107 guns.
The PAVN 28th and 66th Regiments continued to besiege the base from May to June 1969