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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).
South Vietnam, Kon Tum Province: Crewman on an RB-66B #53-0452 that crashed [133] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] October 22: Weger, John: 1st Lieutenant: USAF: 9th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron: South Vietnam, Kon Tum province: Crewman on an RB-66B #53-0452 that crashed [134] Killed in action, body not recovered [112] October 31 ...
[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.
Thao’s main combat force, the 1st Division, contained three strong regiments, the 32nd, the 66th, and the 174th, and was commanded by a veteran officer, Colonel Nguyễn Hữu An. The B3 Front commander also controlled three independent regiments, the 24th Regiment based in Kontum Province, the 95B Regiment in Pleiku Province and the 33rd ...
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.
And it worries people like Marsha Four, who was a combat nurse in Vietnam and knows war trauma intimately. She eventually found purpose and solace running a veterans center in Philadelphia, before she retired last year to work with the Vietnam Veterans of America. Vietnam veterans like Four have their own struggles. But most of them served only ...
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.