Dixie Station - US - VN

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Designation of a staging area off the South Vietnamese coast southeast of Cam Ranh Bay in the South China Sea. Located at 11.0N, 110.0E, it was used from 1965 to 1966 as a reference point for air operations by the US Navy's Seventh Fleet Attack Carrier Striking Force (Task Force 77). See also Yankee Station.

From "A Short History of the United States Navy and the Southeast Asian Conflict 1950-1975", by Edward J Marolda and G Wesley Pryce, III (Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, 1984).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Station
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Coordinates:   10°59'49"N   109°59'54"E

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  • Welcome to Viet Nam :)
  • It's not South China Sea.
  • here belong to china
  • i dont understand
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