Fire Base Brick
Fire Base Brick
Play Infantry in Contact. You
will hear an infantry company communicating with an
artillery company. The company is under fire at night and
is requesting illumination from the artillery (Sounds are encoded using RealAudio. If you don't have
the player plugin, you can download it free at
http://www.real.com/).
A Skycrane airlifts a 155 howitzer to Firebase Brick.
| FIRE SUPPORT/-OPERATIONS BASE BRICK - "Drive
On" troopers of Co. A. 2nd Bn.- (Ambl.), 501st Inf.,
recently found to enemy munitions caches in mountainous jungles, about
25 miles south-southwest of Hue.
The first discovery included 22 82mm mortar rounds, 8 82mm mortar fuses and 14 cans of powder charges. The cache was found under some bushes near the company's night defensive position. Another cache of munitions was found about 50 meters from the first one, under some bushes near a recently-used trail. The cache included 91 82mm mortar rounds, 87 primers and 97 charges. The munitions were extracted to FS/OB Brick, located about 15 miles south-southwest of Hue. Screaming Eagle, December 1970. |