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The lead-up to the Battle of Kontum began in mid-1971, when North Vietnam decided that its victory in Operation Lam Son 719 indicated that the time had come for large-scale conventional offensives that could end the war quickly.
The battle of Dak To (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Đắk Tô - Tân Cảnh) in Vietnam was a series of major engagements of the Vietnam War that took place between 3 and 23 November 1967, [1] in Kon Tum Province, in the Central Highlands of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam).
[6]: 306– By 4 February the city had been secured and normal operations resumed at the airfield. [2]: 323 The airfield was the scene of heavy fighting in April-May 1972 during the Battle of Kontum, part of the PAVN's Easter Offensive. [7] On 21 April PAVN artillery fire damaged an Air Vietnam plane, killing a flight attendant.
Kon Tum is the capital city of Kon Tum Province in Vietnam.It is located inland in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, near the borders of Laos and Cambodia.. Historically, this area has been inhabited by the indigenous Ba Na people, which led to the name Kon Tum, meaning "Village by the Lake" in the Ba Na language.
Kon Tum and Pleiku Provinces: Jan 3 – 4: Operation War Bonnet [1] 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines and 3rd Tank Battalion search and destroy operation: Quảng Nam Province: Jan 3 – 8: Operation Hang Over [1] 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment search and destroy operation: Ninh Thuận Province: Jan 3 – 8: Operation Long Lance [1]
Pleiku and Kon Tum Provinces: 733: 169 Jan 2: Operation Bolo [6] USAF decoy mission to disguise the electronic signature of F-4 fighter as F-105s in order to lure VPAF MiGs to engage: North Vietnam: 7 MiG 21: Jan 3 – 31: Operation Mang Ho VIII [7] ROK Capital Division search and clear operations: Route 1, Phú Yên Province: 150: Jan 4 – 7 ...
ARVN 23rd Division, reinforced by the 40th, 41st, 42nd and 47th Regiments, 22nd Division defense of Kon Tum against the PAVN 2nd, 3rd and 320th Divisions: Kon Tum: May 1 – Jun 30: Operation Keystone Pheasant [3] Redeployment of 3/1 Cavalry, 196th Infantry Brigade and four infantry Battalions from South Vietnam to the United States: May 8
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle Wheeler visited South Vietnam. [5]: 288 13 March. Kon Sitiu and Kon Bobanh, two Montagnard villages in Kon Tum Province, were raided by VC; 15 persons killed; 23 kidnapped, two of whom were later executed; three long-houses, a church and a school burned.