Sa Đéc Base (also known as Sa Đéc Naval Support Activity or simply Sa Đéc) is a former

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...

and

Republic of Vietnam Navy The Republic of Vietnam Navy (RVNN; ; ''HQVNCH'') was the naval branch of the South Vietnamese military, the official armed forces of the former Republic of Vietnam (or South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1975. The early fleet consisted of boats from ...

(RVNN) base near

Sa Đéc Sa Đéc is a Provincial city in Đồng Tháp Province in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam. It is a river port and agricultural and industrial trading center. The Sa Đéc economic zone consists of Châu Thành, Lai Vung and Lấp Vò ...

in the

Mekong Delta The Mekong Delta ( vi, Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, lit=Nine Dragon River Delta or simply vi, Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, lit=Mekong River Delta, label=none), also known as the Western Region ( vi, Miền Tây, links=no) or South-weste ...

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History

The base was located in

on the upper

Mỹ Tho River The Mỹ Tho River ( vi, Sông Mỹ Tho) is a river of Vietnam. It flows for through Bến Tre Province and Tiền Giang Province.Vietnam Administrative Atlas, NXB Bản Đồ, 2004 History The Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút Lê Văn Duy� ...

in the

. The base was established by the US Navy in 1966 as a base for

Patrol Boat, River Patrol Boat, Riverine, or PBR, is the United States Navy designation for a small rigid-hulled patrol boat used in the Vietnam War from March 1966 until 1975. They were deployed in a force that grew to 250 boats, the most common craft in the ...

(PBR)s taking part in

Operation Game Warden Operation Game Warden was a joint operation conducted by the United States Navy and South Vietnamese Navy in order to deny Viet Cong access to resources in the Mekong Delta. Game Warden and its counterpart Operation Market Time are considered to ...

. Ten PBRs of River Division 52 moved to the base in mid-1966. The original facilities at Sa Đéc were relatively primitive with the sailors living in tents on a soccer field until Seabees constructed more permanent accommodation. In 1967 a Naval Support Activity detachment was established at the base. In March 1970, the headquarters of Swift Boat Coastal Division 13 was moved from

Cat Lo Naval Base Cat Lo Naval Base is a former United States Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and Republic of Vietnam Navy (RVNN) base approximately northeast of Vũng Tàu in southern Vietnam that was used during the Vietnam War. History In October 1965, the U.S. Navy ...

to Sa Đéc. The base was transferred to the RVNN in April 1971.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sa Dec Base Buildings and structures in Đồng Tháp province Military installations of the United States in South Vietnam Naval installations of the Republic of Vietnam