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Long Binh Tan Village... Located in the north western portion of the Tactical Area Of Responsibility (TAOR), was the smallest of the four principal villages. It was bordered on the west by Tam Mang Village, on the north by Highway 317, and the southern perimeter of Long Binh Post, to the south, by the Dong Nai River, and to the east by An Hoa Hung Village.

Motorized transportation to and from the village was readily accessible via a single lane dirt road connected to Highway 317 that passed directly through the village looping Southeast through An Hoa Hung Village and back out (north) to Highway 317 past Outpost-3.

The economy consisted largely of rice farming and fishing and, as in An Hoa Hung, many of the residents worked on Long Binh Post or the city of Bien Hoa. The village did have several small cottage industries and a small brick manufacturing facility.

The village Catholic populace and church also supported an orphanage.

Of the four TAOR villages Long Binh Tan was the least sympathetic to the Viet Cong, due primarily to their religion and the proximity to Long Binh Post.

The majority of the village was Catholic. The vast majority arriving after fleeing North Vietnam in 1954 after the First Indochina war with France ended, and the Geneva Convention partitioned Vietnam. Many of the elderly residents were originally from the Hanoi area of North Vietnam and moved south after the French were defeated by the Viet Minh (forerunners of the Viet Cong). They were all fiercely proud of their religion. VC activity in the village was very light and limited to the outlying river area in the south west.