| Echmarcach | 01 Oct 2019 1:21 a.m. PST |
Hi folks Thought some gamers might be interested in these 1:50k maps of Vietnam from 1965 by the US Army. Hosted by the University of Texas, click on the index map area for detailed map. link Should be really helpful for Vietnam gamers to see what real terrain was like. Would be interesting to locate some real battles and encounters back onto these maps. Cheers Andy |
jammy four  | 01 Oct 2019 2:49 a.m. PST |
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| tomrommel1 | 01 Oct 2019 5:27 a.m. PST |
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| Ferd45231 | 01 Oct 2019 6:19 a.m. PST |
Did not know the US army in 1965 called Saigon Ho Chi Minh city. Still a "delightful"piece of nostalgia. Thanks. H |
 Legion 4  | 01 Oct 2019 7:59 a.m. PST |
I still have some maps[somewhere?] when I was an ROTC Cadet, '75-'79 of Vietnam. We used for map reading training. They must of had a lot left over … |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 01 Oct 2019 8:46 a.m. PST |
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| Wolfhag | 01 Oct 2019 7:44 p.m. PST |
I've got a number of I Corps maps from the 1970's. They are in color too. Someday I'd like to develop a Company level campaign game of the operations of a fire base using the map. Wolfhag |
| TimeCast | 02 Oct 2019 2:51 a.m. PST |
Ferd45231 Saigon was still Saigon up until 1976. This is a more recent copy of the map not a 1965 edition. The Saigon map sheet 6330 IV is a 5th edition map. This was revised in 1984 (check the edition data on the bottom of the map). The Magnetic variation data shown on the map is given for the year 1985. Some of the other maps on the website are dated 1969 and are marked as second edition. Barrie
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 deadhead | 02 Oct 2019 5:08 a.m. PST |
Do you know, I was walking miles on the North York Moors today in glorious sunshine and suddenly thought I must check this map more closely. Clearly a revision but bound to be a clue somewhere. Well done TimeCast. On another issue. How useless are the brass drainage holes on jungle boots? Water pours in but never drains out and I was today in mud, not an Indochinese paddy field. |
| Legion 4 | 02 Oct 2019 7:05 a.m. PST |
Wore jungle boots in Panama, the ROK[in the summer on the DMZ], and even back at Ft. Benning, GA, Ft Bragg, NC, etc. after returning from the ROK. Liked them much better than the standard issue "Leg" boots. They were lighter, and of course the green nylon uppers dried more quickly than the Leg Boots. Once they got wet. Even if water gets in drainage holes, they are better than wet heavy Leg Boots. |
| Bismarck | 03 Oct 2019 1:02 p.m. PST |
FYI, All the old 1:50,000 are still available from US Geologic Service. Only trick is that many of the maps are post war and the old 7000 series numbers are no longer used, so you have to do some research to match. On most of the ones I have some old camp locations, ie. An Hoa are shown as destroyed as several villages. There is a website online called Ray's Map Room which has a good selection of maps along with some detailed combat info. That site can direct you to the US site to purchase maps. They are cheap, running only around $9.00 USD US. Turnaround time is quick, unless map has to be printed on demand. There are two government printing locations that produce them. Some do still have 1960s dates. Hope some of you can find this trivia useful. An after retirement project, I bought maps of all the areas I served in
to pass down for genealogy. Took several months to research and there is no table showing equivalents. |
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