Camp Holloway Vietnam 9th Cavalry

9th Cavalry

An Khe was a small village on the banks of the Song Be River

from which they were ultimately discharged when recovered enough to return to duty with their units

The Seabees of MCB-10 built the helicopter pad

7/17th Air Cavalry was redesignated H Troop

Camp Holloway Vietnam 9th CavalryOrder this cap today. Camp Holloway was established in 1962. It was located along Route 19 approximately 3km east of Pleiku in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The camp was named in 1963 for Piasecki CH 21 helicopter pilot Warrant Officer Charles E. Holloway, who in December 1962 became the first aviator assigned to the 81st Transportation Company to be killed in action.[1][2] The 81st Transportation Company, re equipped in 1963 with UH 1