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This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Vietnam War (1955–1975). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battles and operations of the Vietnam War .
This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (November 2024) Vietnam War Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War in Asia Clockwise from top left: US Huey helicopters inserting South Vietnamese ARVN troops, 1970 North Vietnamese PAVN ...
3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, ARVN 5th Airborne Battalion and Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps combined reaction force operation landing near An Hoa to encounter the 60th and 90th battalions of the 1st VC Regiment and the 11th Battalion, 21st NVA Regiment
Fort Jefferson is a former U.S. military coastal fortress in the Dry Tortugas National Park of Florida. It is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas, [2] [3] covering 16 acres (6.5 ha) and made with over 16 million bricks. [4]
Location VC-PAVN KIAs Allied KIAs Jan 28 - Jul 18 73: Operation End Sweep [1] US Navy demining of Haiphong Harbour, mined as part of Operation Pocket Money: Haiphong Harbour: Feb 12 – Apr 4 73: Operation Homecoming [2] Repatriation of U.S. prisoners of war from North Vietnam: Gia Lam Airport: Apr 27 - May 2 74: Operation Svay Rieng [3]
Operation Prairie was a U.S. military operation in Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam that sought to eliminate People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Over the course of late 1965 and early 1966 the Viet Cong (VC) and the PAVN intensified their military threat along the DMZ. The tactical goal of these ...
The first U.S. prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam on February 11, and all U.S. military personnel were to leave South Vietnam by March 29. As an inducement for Thieu's government to sign the agreement, Nixon had promised that the U.S. would provide financial and limited military support (in the form of air strikes) so that the ...
The area of Operation Thayer, Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam. Operation Thayer was the largest air assault undertaken up until that time in the Vietnam War. [6] The focus of Operation Thayer was the Kim Son Valley where seven small rivers, separated by mountains, came together in what the Americans called the Crow's Foot.