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The 27th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Wolfhounds", [1] is a regiment of the United States Army established in 1901, that served in the Philippine–American War, in the Siberian Intervention after World War I, and as part of the 25th Infantry Division ("Tropic Lightning") during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and later, the Iraq War.
The 25th Infantry Division (nicknamed "Tropic Lightning") [ 1 ] is a United States Army division based at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. The division, which was activated on 1 October 1941 in Hawaii, conducts military operations primarily in the Asia-Pacific region. Its present deployment is composed of light infantry and aviation units.
Following the departure of the U.S. forces in 1972, Củ Chi became the base of the ARVN 25th Division. [1]As the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces closed in on Saigon in late April 1975, the camp was hit by PAVN artillery fire on 28 April and besieged the PAVN. 25th Division commander Major general Lý Tòng Bá ordered his forces to fight in place, but on the morning of 29 April after ...
On 19 July 1966 1st Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment (25th Infantry Division) was dropped at a landing zone in the woods where it was met by sniper fire, another platoon was dropped into a nearby landing zone to support the 1st Platoon and it too was heavily engaged by VC fire. Several hours later an additional platoon ...
Colonel David Haskell Hackworth (November 11, 1930 – May 4, 2005) was a United States Army officer and journalist, who was decorated in both the Korean War and Vietnam War. Hackworth is known for his role in the formation and command of Tiger Force, a military unit from the 101st Airborne Division that used guerrilla warfare tactics against ...
The New Year's Day battle of 1968 was a military engagement during the Vietnam War in Tây Ninh province that began on the evening of 1 January 1968. It involved units assigned to the U.S. 25th Infantry Division and two regiments of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). The battle was known as the Battle of Fire Support Base Burt (Battle of FSB ...
2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (April 1968, July 1968 – April 1970) comprising: 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment [2]: 140 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment [2]: 140 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment [2]: 146 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (August 1967 – February 1968, February–April 1970) comprising:
Operation New Life. "Tent City" at Orote Field, Guam. Operation New Life (23 April – 1 November 1975) was the care and processing on Guam of Vietnamese refugees evacuated before and after the Fall of Saigon, the closing day of the Vietnam War. More than 111,000 of the evacuated 130,000 Vietnamese refugees were transported to Guam, where they ...