I have also talked to a bunch of my fellow Brave Cannons who were on Hill 1338 also known as Firebase 6 and I believe it has the wrong name... under the above criteria I believe it should be called Landing Zone 6 or LZ 6. But this is another area where the normal naming conventions went south in a hand basket. It seems all of the hilltops on which we wrestled Pigs and had a number in their name i.e. 1, 3, 6, 25, 31 alpha, etc. were prefaced by a Firebase or Fire Support Base.
Most of the data has been gleaned from the ORLL's of the 1/92nd Field Artillery and or the 52nd Artillery Group records (*). All duplicate entries have been eliminated even if there were differences in the coordinates. In most cases the variances were small and were probably caused by the adjustment of the "Battery Center" or dyslexia in a recorder. This alone narrowed the list from 238 down to 197 entries. This list is by no means complete and there is much to add from the southern portion of our TAOR. Any data obtained from other than 52nd Artillery Group records had to pass a simple test before being included... was the TAOR and basic primary mission (GSR & DSR for II CTZ) for the source the same as ours and was the source primarily a pure Artillery Unit.
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