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The Michelin Rubber Plantation was a rubber plantation in Vietnam.It was located near Dầu Tiếng District in Bình Dương Province, 72 km northwest of Saigon.The plantation was established by the Michelin company in 1925 [1] and at 12,400 hectares (31,000 acres) it was the largest rubber plantation in Vietnam.
Operation Atlas Wedge was a joint U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) military operation from 17 to 24 March 1969 during the Vietnam War designed to engage People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) units in the Michelin Rubber Plantation, Bình Dương Province.
Bến Củi was the site of a rubber plantation (Nông trường cao su Bến Củi) that was part of the Michelin Rubber Plantation near Dầu Tiếng, Republic of Vietnam. During the Vietnam War , Ben Cui and other sections of the Michelin rubber plantation were the scene of intense fighting between United States forces and the North ...
Operation Atlas Wedge [10]: 28 1st Infantry Division, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 1/4th Cavalry operation. After making contact, the PAVN were defeated with the "pile on" tactics using air strikes, air and armored cav, Rome Plows, and infantry: Michelin Rubber Plantation near Dầu Tiếng: 421: Mar 18 – May 2: Operation Breakfast [11]: 13
On 10 June 2013 the 1/27th Infantry was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for its actions on 19 July 1966. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1973 the Ho Bo area was flat, almost featureless terrain, laced with trenches and tunnels, deeply pocked with ragged lines of bomb craters left by numberless waves of B-52s, its shattered plantations overgrown with head ...
On the evening of 27 November 1965 the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) 7th Regiment, 5th Division operating in the Michelin Rubber Plantation was overrun by the Viet Cong (VC) 271st and 273rd Regiments, killing most of the Regiment (possibly up to 500 soldiers) and its five US advisers. [2]
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10 August. An insurgent force of 400 men raided the Michelin Rubber Plantation north of Saigon. The plantation was defended by a company security force and 200 ARVN. The defenders were taken by surprise and lost more than 100 weapons and $143,000 in cash. The raid was led by a Bình Xuyên commander with VC advisers.