‘The 834th division earned a Presidential Unit Citation for its support to besieged US Marines during the 1968 Siege of Khe Sanh’
From mid-October 1966 onwards, the US 834th Air Division operated as the controlling agency for theatre airlift operations in South Vietnam. It served as a single manager for all tactical airlift operations in South Vietnam. In this role the 834th had operational control over 315th Air Division Lockheed C-130 Hercules assigned to duties in Vietnam.
These planes undertook a variety of roles including facilitating Operation Junction City, the largest American airborne assault of the Vietnam war. This was an assault on Viet Cong forces by soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade who were parachuted into drop zones near Ca Tum, close to the Cambodian border. Also in 1967, the C-130s participated in Operation Banish Beach to deforest areas of ground to support the USMC’s Operation Allen Brook, south of Danang to the west of Highway 1. The 834th division earned a Presidential Unit Citation for its support to besieged US Marines during the 1968 Siege of Khe Sanh but before that it would facilitate Operation Liberty Canyon.
Camp Evans (16.562°N 107.38°E) in central Vietnam was establ…
