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The battle was a decisive victory for the Lam Son army, with a superior Ming force having been defeated. The Ming lost heavy amounts of weaponry and suffered heavy casualties. Casualty estimates range, with Vietnamese sources claiming 50,000 Ming troops dead and 10,000 captured, while the Ming Shilu estimates that around 20,000 to 30,000 ...
The second phase began on the night of 24–25 May when the K3 and K4 Battalions of the Dong Nai Regiment and the K1 and K2 Battalions from the 1st Quyet Thang Regiment entered Gia Định City, a northern suburb sandwiched between Gò Vấp District and downtown Saigon. Even though the four battalions had only 80-100 men apiece, they had ...
Hat Dich area, Phước Tuy Province: Aug 1 – 31: Operation Lyre Bird [1] [5] 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment/Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment land-clearing operation: west of Nui Dat, Phước Tuy Province: Aug 2 – Apr 24 1969: Operation Lam Son 245 [10] ARVN 54th Regiment operation: Thừa Thiên Province: 636: Aug 4 – 20
By the end of 1974, all but two airborne battalions were withdrawn from Hill 1062. The remaining 1st and 7th Battalions kept patrols there and depended on artillery fires to deny the terrain to PAVN occupation, but placed their main battle positions near Dong Lam Mountain, about 4 km to the east, and in the ridges above Hill 52.
Lâm Đồng is a southernmost mountainous province in the Central Highlands region, the Central of Vietnam.It borders Khánh Hòa and Ninh Thuận to the east, Đồng Nai to the southwest, Bình Thuận to the southeast, Đắk Lắk to the north, and Đắk Nông to the northwest.
However, due to PAVN and the Viet Cong's (VC) intelligence and preparation beforehand, an inability by the political and military leaders of the U.S. and South Vietnam to face military realities, and poor execution, Operation Lam Son 719 collapsed when faced by the determined resistance of a skillful foe. The campaign demonstrated continued ...
The Battle of Hill 488 was a military engagement of the Vietnam War that took place on the night of 15–16 June 1966. A small United States Marine Corps (USMC) reconnaissance platoon inflicted large casualties on regular People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) fighters before withdrawing with only a few dead.
Lam, Quang Thi (2001). The twenty-five year century: A South Vietnamese general remembers the Indochina war to the fall of Saigon. Denton: University of North Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-4175-0241-7. Nguyen, Huy Chuong (2001). The only path. Da Nang: Da Nang Publication. OCLC 56568114. Jowett, Garth S. (2012). Propaganda and persuasion. California ...