A Shau Valley Vietnam Color:Khaki and the Marines also established

and the Marines also established a combat base and helicopter facility on the Kỳ Hà peninsula north of the air base

Shortly after conventional ground forces began arriving in country in 1965

12th Marines deployed to Đông Hà Combat Base and Cam Lộ

Vietnam's most important road

At its peak

A Shau Valley Vietnam Color:Khaki and the Marines also establishedOrder this cap today. The A Shau Valley (Vietnamese: thung lng A Su) is a valley in Vietnam's Tha Thin Hu Province, west of the coastal city of Hu, along the border of Laos. The valley runs north and south for 40 kilometers and is a 1. 5 kilometer wide flat bottomland covered with tall elephant grass, flanked by two densely forested mountain ridges whose summits vary in elevation from 900 to 1,800 meters. A Shau Valley was one of the key entry points