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The Montagnards also cooperated with the Australians in addition to the Americans; the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam gained the support of many Montagnards by spending prolonged periods in different villages in the region, embracing their culture and gaining over a thousand recruits for the South Vietnamese army by 1964. [41] In 1967 ...
During the early stages of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, several U.S. Special Forces Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) camps were established along the borders of South Vietnam in order both to maintain surveillance of PAVN and Viet Cong (VC) infiltration and to provide support and training to isolated Montagnard villagers, who bore the brunt of the fighting in the area.
Operation Dazzlem (1967-68) [1] 1st Cavalry Division (1 Oct 67 – 17 Jan 68) and 173rd Airborne Brigade (17 Jan – 8 Feb 68) search and destroy operation: Bình Định Province: Oct 4 – Nov 11: Operation Wallowa [1] 23rd Infantry Division and 3/1 Cavalry search and destroy and security operation: Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín Provinces: Oct ...
The Montagnards in FULRO fought the Vietnamese for twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War and the scale of Vietnamese attacks on the Montagnards are alleged by one US author as having killed over 200,000 Montagnards after 1975 during the war between FULRO and Vietnam in the Central Highlands, as the Vietnamese lease land for Japanese companies to harvest lumber in the area.
68: Operation Leap Frog [2] Systematic canvassing of the opinions of senior ARVN officers by U.S. military intelligence on likely Vietcong actions: 68 – 69: Operation Duck Hook [1] Nixon administration covert plan to coerce the North Vietnamese to make concessions at the Paris Peace Talks: 68 – 69: Operation Inferno [1]
At the beginning of 1967 the United States was engaged in a steadily expanding air and ground war in Southeast Asia. Since its inception in February 1965, Operation Rolling Thunder, the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, had escalated in the number and significance of its targets, inflicting major damage on transportation networks industry, and petroleum refining and storage facilities.
Camp Enari was established near Dragon Mountain (Núi Hàm Rồng) and Highway 19, 12 km southeast of Pleiku. The base was named for 1st Lieutenant Mark Enari, the first 4th Infantry Division member awarded the Silver Star (posthumously) in Vietnam, who was killed in action on 2 December 1966.
The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam War with America spending US$77.4 billion (US$ 699 billion in 2025) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 ARVN soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand PAVN/VC killed.