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1st Infantry Division, 173rd Airborne Brigade, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and ARVN operation in Plain of Reeds area of the Mekong Delta: Hậu Nghĩa Province: 268: 15 US, 31 ARVN Jan 1 – 18: Operation Jefferson: A combined ROK 2nd Marine Brigade and paratroops of ARVN 47th Regiment search and destroy operation: Phú Yên ...
I Field Force, Vietnam was activated with its headquarters at Nha Trang. II Field Force, Vietnam was activated with its headquarters at Long Binh Post [43]: 53–4 18 March Victims of the 18 March mine explosion. A VC mine explosion killed 15 civilians on a country road 8 km west of Tuy Hòa. [16] 19-23 March
The Battle of Ban Me Thuot was a decisive battle of the Vietnam War which led to the complete destruction of South Vietnam's II Corps Tactical Zone.The battle was part of a larger North Vietnamese military operation known as Campaign 275 to capture the Tay Nguyen region, known in the West as the Vietnamese Central Highlands.
The PAVN was first conceived in September 1944 at the first Revolutionary Party Military Conference as the Propaganda Unit of the Liberation Army (alternatively translated as the Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army, Việt Nam Tuyên truyền Giải phóng Quân) to educate, recruit and mobilise the Vietnamese to create a main force to drive the ...
The 174th Regiment attacked units from the 4/23rd Infantry and the 3/22d Infantry near the Cau Khoi Plantation with no U.S. losses. [1]: 670 After midnight on 20 September the 1st Battalion, 272nd Regiment, attacked a Regional Forces outpost in Phước Tân hamlet, 20 km west of Tay Ninh City, losing 35 killed in the brief assault.
In 1960 the 23rd Infantry Division was formed from the 15th Light Division and elements of the 16th Light Division. [1]: 298 On 29 July 1965, as a show of force, United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO) troops seized a Highland Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) border camp at Buon Brieng in Darlac Province, withdrawing several days later with 176 CIDG personnel.
The 18th Division (Vietnamese: Sư đoàn 18; Chữ Hán: 師團18) was an infantry division in the III Corps of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). The U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam considered the 18th as undisciplined and was well known throughout the ARVN for its "cowboy" reputation.
The QLVNCH (also known as the RVNMF) was established on 26 October 1955 when the State of Vietnam became a republic after a rigged referendum. [5] Created out from ex-French Union Army colonial Indochinese auxiliary units (French: Supplétifs), gathered earlier in January 1949 into the French-led Vietnamese National Army or VNA (Vietnamese: Quân Đội Quốc Gia Việt Nam – QĐQGVN ...