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Hill 55 (also known as Nui Dat Son or Camp Muir) is a hill 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) southwest of Da Nang, Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam. The hill is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast of the confluence of the Yen, Ai Nghia, and La Tho Rivers and was a United States Marine Corps base during the Vietnam War .
Kissinger secretly met with North Vietnam's former foreign minister, Xuan Thuy, to bypass the deadlocked Paris Peace Talks. [68] 5 August. North Vietnam released three American prisoners of war to peace activist Rennie Davis, among them was U.S. Navy seaman Doug Hegdahl who had memorized the names of other prisoners. [69] [5]: 307
Zaffiri, Samuel, Hamburger Hill, May 10- May 20, 1969 (1988), ISBN 0-89141-706-0; Linderer, A, Gary, Eyes Behind The Lines: L Company Rangers in Vietnam, 1969 (1991) ISBN 0-8041-0819-6; Boccia, Frank, The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969 (2013), ISBN 978-0786474394
The fighting continued until 19:30 when the PAVN withdrew leaving 3 dead, US losses were 2 killed. [2]: 40 On 22 July 3rd Brigade troops discovered the bodies of 12 PAVN soldiers 32 miles (51 km) west southwest of Huế. They apparently were killed two months previously by small arms fire. [2]: 43
the first phase of secret B-52 bombing of eastern Cambodia; the start of a four-year bombing campaign that drew Cambodia into the Vietnam War: eastern Cambodia: Mar 18 – May 28, 1970: Operation Menu [11]: 13 US Strategic Air Command secret bombing of Cambodia: Cambodia: Mar 18 – Feb 28 1971: Operation Frederick Hill [1] [12]: 290
The battalion was engaged in combat for 47 months and 7 days, from 15 June 1965 to 19 October 1966 and 11 December 1966 to 14 July 1969. Based on a typical battalion strength of 800 Marines and Navy hospital corpsmen , 2,892 Marines passed through the unit over those 47 months; 25.89% (747) were killed in action (KIA) and 0.0007% (2) were ...
South Vietnam, Quảng Nam Province: Killed during an ambush in the Que Son Valley, his body was left behind during the evacuation [8] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] January 7: Trujillo, Robert S: Private First Class: US Army: 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment: South Vietnam: Disappeared during the evacuation following an ambush in ...
This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period from 1969–1971. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By October 2022, 1,582 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1,004 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as non-recoverable and 90 as deferred. [1]