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212 APPENDIX 2 Order of Battle, People’s Army of Vietnam Northern Military Regions and Laos, 1971 Overall Command: Headquarters 702 (Gen. Le Trong Tan, commander) B70 Corps (or corps-sized group): (Gen. Cao Van Khanh, commander) 308th Division (Col. Nguyen Huu An, commander) 36th Infantry Regiment (in reserve) 88th Infantry Regiment 102nd Infantry Regiment 304th Division (minus 9th Regiment) (Col. Hoang An, commander) 24th Infantry Regiment 66th Infantry Regiment 320th Division (minus 52nd Regiment) (Col. Nguyen Cong Tien, alias Kim Tuan, commander) 48th Infantry Regiment 64th Infantry Regiment B5 Front (Col. Nguyen Anh De, commander) 27th Infantry Regiment 270th Infantry Regiment Tri-Thien Military Region (B4 Front) 324th Division (Col. Chu Phuong Doi, commander)* 1st Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Regiment 3rd Infantry Regiment Military Region 5 2nd Division (minus 31st Regiment) (Col. Nguyen Chon, commander) 1st “Ba Gia” Regiment 141st Regiment Source: Military History Institute of Vietnam, Chiến dịch phản công Đường 9–Nam Lào, Nam 1971 [The Route 9–Southern Laos counteroffensive campaign, 1971]. * Many references list the subordinate regiments of the 324th Division as the 803rd, 812th, and 29th Regiments. However, according to the division history, Lịch sử sư đoàn bộ binh 324, 1955–2005 [History of the 324th Infantry Division, 1955–2005], accessed 19 Oct. 2009 at http://www.quansuvn.net/index.php?topic=103.0 and translated by Merle Pribbenow, these were the old designations of the regiments during the time of the 324A Division, which was disbanded in 1966. After the division was reformed in 1969, the regiments were renumbered as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Regiments. Order of Battle, People’s Army of Vietnam 213 Group 559 (the Ho Chi Minh Trail command) (Gen. Dong Si Nguyen, commander) Area Headquarters 470 (division-sized transportation and combat support unit) Binh Tram 9 (Way Station 9)† Binh Tram 27 Binh Tram 31 Binh Tram 32 Binh Tram 33 Binh Tram 41 Combat Support: Artillery 38th Field Artillery Regiment 45th Field Artillery Regiment 368th Field Artillery Regiment 84th Artillery Regiment (heavy mortars and rockets) Armor 198th Battalion/202nd Tank Regiment 397th Battalion/202nd Tank Regiment Anti-Aircraft Artillery 230th AAA Regiment 241st AAA Regiment 591st AAA Regiment Surface-to-Air Missiles (SA-2) 237th Missile Regiment Engineer 7th Engineer Regiment 83rd Engineer Regiment 219th Engineer Regiment Sappers (not including divisional sapper battalions) 126th Water Sapper Group (operating along the Dong Ha River) 33rd Sapper Battalion 35th Sapper Battalion Reconnaissance 74th Reconnaissance Battalion (directly subordinate to the General Staff) † A binh tram was a regimental-sized combat support unit with its own organic battalionsized infantry, engineer, antiaircraft, transportation, and supply/administrative elements. ...

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