Saigon - Bien class=\"MsoNormal\">Bien HoaDuring the Vietnam Wars, French Indochina andthe American War (1955–75), the base was used by the Republic of Vietnam AirForce (VNAF).
The United States used it as a major basefrom 1961 through 1973, stationing Army, Air Force (USAF), US Navy, US SpecialForces and US Marine units there.
At all times, between 1967 and 1970, Bien HoaAir base and Tan Son Nhut Air base (Saigon) were alternated between been thefirst and second busiest airports in the world.
In December 1960, The U.S. MilitaryAssistance Advisory Group (MAAG) requested the U.S. Navy (the designatedcontract construction agent for the Dept. of Defense in Southeast Asia) todevelop plans for and construct several jet-capable airfields in South Vietnam,including at Bien Hoa.
In December 1961, the American constructioncompany RMK-BRJ was directed by the Navy’s Officer in Charge of ConstructionRVN to begin construction of a new concrete runway, the first of many projectsbuilt by RMK-BRJ at the Bien Hoa Air Base over the following ten years.
Fall of Bien Hoa Airbase
In March 1975 Hanoi made its next seriouslyaggressive move. In the preceding two years, North Vietnam\'s army patientlymoved into the South enormous quantities of Soviet artillery, surface-to-airmissiles, and armored vehicles, along with 100,000 fresh troops.
On 10 March the North Vietnamese Army began anew offensive in South Vietnam. Northern forces isolated the provincial capitolof Buôn Ma Thuột by cutting off or blocking the main highways to it. It was atBan Me Thuot that the first phenomenon which would increasingly undermine theSouth\'s morale occurred. Many of its army officers used helicopters to pick uptheir families and flee to the south with them.
South Vietnamese civilians then began to fleethe countryside, crowding the main roads and the pathways in a mass exodus forthe coast, where they ultimately jammed seaports seeking transport to thesouth. The refugees included not only those civilians who had helped theSouth\'s army or the Americans, but also a great mass who expected bad treatmentfrom the communists.
By early April of 1975 the end of SouthVietnam was at hand.
North Vietnam\'s forces had severed the roadsaround Saigon and had begun shelling Bien Hoa. On 9 April the ARVN engaged thePAVN at Xuan Loc, located on Highway 1 only 37 miles northeast of Saigon.
Xuan Loc fell on 23 April, and there was nowlittle to prevent or slow the Communist advance on Saigon.
The loss of Xuan Loc made Bien Hoa Air baseindefensible, although the VNAF continued to fly from the base until PAVNartillery fire forced the evacuation of Bien Hoa on 25 April.
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