Vietnam War Patch USMC KILO Battery, 4th Battalion, 12th Marine Rgt At DONG HA

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This Vietnam war in-country machine embroidered patch measures approximately 2.75" by 2.3", used condition. A valuable addition to your Vietnam war military memorabilia collection.

Camp Carroll was a United States Marine Corps artillery base during the Vietnam War . It was located 8 km southwest of Cam Lộ , DONG HA Quang Tri province. Camp Carroll was also at the centroid of a large arc of the strategic Highway 9 corridor south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which made it a key facility. 

The 3rd Marine Division had overall command and control of the DMZ area. The camp was commissioned on November 10, 1966 (aka Camp J. J. Carroll) and became home for the 3rd Marine Regiment . The camp was named after Navy Cross recipient Captain James J. Carroll who was the commanding officer of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion , 4th Marines who was killed by friendly tank fire on October 5, 1966 during Operation Prairie . It was one of nine artillery bases constructed along the DMZ and had 80 artillery pieces including M107 175mm guns from the United States Army ; the longest ranged, but least accurate American field artillery pieces, the 175mm could fire a 150-pound projectile 32,690 meters and effectively return fire on any enemy gun that could hit it. The 175mm guns put Camp Carroll on the map, particularly the tactical maps of the North Vietnamese forward observers.

Camp Carroll diminished in significance after the 1968 Tet Offensive . The 3rd Marine Division began relying on highly mobile postures rather than remaining in their fixed positions as sitting targets. The Marine Corps began pulling out of Vietnam in 1969 as part of President Richard Nixon 's Vietnamization Policy. In March 1970, the Marine unit that had been stationed at Camp Carroll left Vietnam. Camp Carroll became a South Vietnamese Army base.

During the Vietnam War, the 3rd Marine Division suffered 6,869 men killed in action. The division departed South Vietnam in November 1969 with more than 20 Marines having received the Medal of Honor and moved to Camp Courtney , Okinawa, where it is presently located.

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  • Condition: Used
  • Conflict: Vietnam (1961-75)
  • Country of Manufacture: Vietnam
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Theme: Militaria
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Vietnam

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