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Operation Bushmaster II (also known as the Battle of Ap Nha Mat) was a US Army operation that took place in the Michelin Rubber Plantation, lasting from 1 to 6 December 1965. Prelude [ edit ]
Date duration Operation name Unit(s) – description Location VC–PAVN KIAs Allied KIAs 1965–72: Operation Footboy [1]: MACVSOG covert operations in North Vietnam and North Vietnamese waters for the purpose of collecting intelligence, conducting psychological warfare operations, and other activities to create dissension among the populace, and for diversion of North Vietnamese resources
Edwin E. Moïse (1996), Tonkin Gulf and the escalation of the Vietnam War, 304 pages Lewis Sorley (2007), A Better War, 528 pages Institute Of Medicine, Institute of Medicine (U.S.), National Academies Press (U.S.) (2007), Veterans and agent orange, 871 pages
Cửa Việt Base (also known as Cửa Việt Combat Base, Cửa Việt Naval Support Activity, Camp Kistler or simply Cửa Việt) is a former U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base north of Quảng Trị in central Vietnam.
The Long Nguyen Secret Zone was a geographical area of the South Vietnam, a heavily-forested area located between Highway 13 and the Michelin Rubber Plantation about 56 kilometers (35 mi) northwest of Saigon, in Binh Duong Province that served as a Viet Cong divisional sanctuary.
3rd Battalion, 1st Marines and 1st Amphibian Tractor Battalion search and destroy operation to keep the Cua Viet River supply line open. Combined with Operation Napoleon on 28 Feb 68: Cua Viet River: Jan 31 – Mar 8: Operation Adairsville [1] 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment operation to defend Long Binh: Biên Hòa Province: Feb 1 – Mar 2
This operation heralded a new era of air mobility for the U.S. Army, which had been slowly growing as a concept since the Army formed twelve helicopter battalions in 1952 as a result of the Korean War. These new battalions eventually formed a sort of modern-day cavalry for the Army. [2]: 4
Operation Masher, also known as Operation White Wing, (24 January—6 March 1966) was the largest search and destroy mission that had been carried out in the Vietnam War up until that time. [6] It was a combined mission of the United States Army , Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), and Republic of Korea Army (ROK) in Bình Định Province ...