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Total: at least 321 M48 tanks. According to official US data 343 M48s were delivered to the ARVN up to March 1975., [73] all of which were destroyed or captured. The United States lost at least 123 M48 tanks (non-repairable) during the war. [66] As a result, the United States with South Vietnam lost about 500 M48 tanks.
English: OPERATION PERSHING An M48 tank of the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), moves through the village of Truong Lan, Binh Dinh Province, approximately 90 km northeast of An Khe during a search for the VC.
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Tanks in the series include: M46 Patton, a medium tank model operational during the Korean War; M47 Patton, the first US main battle tank, in service from 1952 through 1959 with the U.S. Army, and through the mid-1990s in foreign service. M48 Patton, a tank model in service from the mid-1950s through the Vietnam War with the U.S. Army, and ...
The Ben Het Camp Special Forces Camp was located along the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia tri-border area and run by the 5th Special Forces Group.At the time of the battle, there were 12 Green Beret advisers and three companies of CIDG numbering 400 in total, alongside two M42A1 tanks and a 175mm artillery battery.
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To counter a buildup of PAVN forces in the area, a unit of the 1st Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, equipped with four M48 Patton tanks was sent to reinforce the camp. Three of the four tanks took up dug-in positions on a hill facing west towards Cambodia, while the last tank occupied a firing position in the main camp overlooking the resupply ...