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Bình Định and Pleiku Provinces: Apr 14 – 27: Operation Greene Orange [1] 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment clear and search operation: Pleiku Province: Apr 15 – Jan 1 1971: Operation Washington Green [9] 173rd Airborne Brigade pacification operation: An Lao Valley, Bình Định Province: 1,957: 64 Apr 17 – May 1: Operation Greene ...
The Pleiku campaign took place from 23 October to 26 November 1965. [1] II Corps Command named it Pleime campaign , with a slightly different starting date of 20 October instead of 23 October, [ 2 ] consisted of three operations: [ 3 ]
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The Squadron, by steadfast resolve and against countless odds, annihilated the enemy force. This lifted the siege of the city of Pleiku, and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Squadron was able to resume its normal mission of securing the U.S. 4th Division logistical lifeline between Pleiku and Kontum. The enemy then committed large forces in an effort to ...
Life magazine published the photographs of 242 Americans killed in one week in Vietnam; this is now considered a watershed event of negative public opinion toward the war. [59] [60] 28 June. A Gallup poll showed that 61% of Americans opposed a total withdrawal from South Vietnam, 29% favored total withdrawal and 10% were undecided. [5]: 302
St. George was located at the intersection of Route 14 (now Route 17) and Route 7B (now Route 25) approximately 20 km southeast of Camp Enari and 33 km southeast of Pleiku. [ 1 ] St. George was occupied by the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry and 1st Battalion, 9th Artillery when it was assaulted by People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) sappers on the ...
On 3 March at 18:00 a Division unit was attacked by fire 28 km northwest of Pleiku and returned fire supported by helicopter gunships killing 15 PAVN/VC. [6]: 32 On 4 March at 16:00 a unit of the 3rd Brigade searching a village 15 km southeast of Pleiku engaged 40–50 VC. The unit was supported by helicopter gunships and airstrikes and the VC ...
The II Corps (Vietnamese: Quân đoàn II) was a corps of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975. It was one of four corps in the ARVN, and it oversaw the central highlands region, north of the capital Saigon. Its corps headquarters was in the mountain town of Pleiku.