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 III MAF Headquarters, copyright Thomas Pike | |
| Coordinates | 16°04′26″N 108°14′10″E / 16.074°N 108.236°E / 16.074; 108.236 (Camp Horn) |
| Type | Marine Corps Base |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1965 |
| In use | 1965–present |
| Battles/wars |  Vietnam War |
| Garrison information | |
| Occupants | III Marine Amphibious Force XXIV Corps |
Camp Horn is a former United States Marine Corps and United States Army base located in Danang, Vietnam.
History
The base was originally established as a French Army compound on the Tiensha Peninsula on the east side of the Hàn River opposite Danang. It was occupied by the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), shortly after the initial Marine landings in South Vietnam in May 1965.
The base was named Camp Horn after Colonel Charles Horn, a III MAF engineer who drowned following a Vietcong attack on the Nam-O bridge on 13 April 1967.
In October 1968 Mobile Construction Battalion 12 built a hardened combat operations center at the base.
On 9 March 1970 III MAF transferred the base to XXIV Corps which assumed operational control of US forces in I Corps.
The US Army's 615th MP Company was based at Camp Horn from 11 November 1972 until their inactivation there on 28 March 1973.
Current use
The base appears to remain in use by the People's Army of Vietnam.
References
- ^ Kelley, Michael (2002). Where we were in Vietnam. Hellgate Press. p. 5–250. ISBN 978-1555716257.
- "Charles Henry Horn". Virtual Vietnam Wall. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- Lukanic, Terry (2017). U.S. Navy Seabees-The Vietnam Years-1968. p. 330. ISBN 9780998888767.
- The Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1973: An Anthology and Annotated Bibliography. Lulu.com. p. 291. ISBN 9780359096626.
- Gunnarsson, Robert (2011). American Military Police in Europe, 1945–1991: Unit Histories. McFarland. p. 162. ISBN 9780786485079.