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Operation Starlite (also known in Vietnam as Battle of Van Tuong) was the first major offensive action conducted by a purely U.S. military unit during the Vietnam War from 18 to 24 August 1965. The operation was launched based on intelligence provided by Major general Nguyen Chanh Thi , the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) I Corps commander.
Operation Sherman Peak [1] [6] 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and ARVN 1st Division clear and search operation: north of the A Shau Valley, Quảng Trị Province: 1: Jan 31 – Feb 8: Operation Wayne Arrow [1] 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment clear and search operation: Bình Định Province: Jan 31 – Feb 12: Operation Hancock ...
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
Jan 1 – Feb 1973: Operation Igloo White [3]: 83–302 [4] USAF electronic warfare program to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Ho Chi Minh Trail: Jan 1 – Mar 1 1973: Operation Clearwater [1] US Navy operation to interdict enemy bases and lines of communications on inland waterways: I Corps: Jan 5 – 25: Operation Sultan (1968) [1]
The 5/60th Infantry commander Lieutenant Colonel William B. Steele deployed two of his companies in the paddyfields to the north and east of Cudgel with Company C at the firebase to protect Batteries C and D 2/4th Artillery and his reconnaissance platoon on the southern side of Ong Tai Creek accessible only by a narrow footbridge. [1]: 132
Bình Xuyên Force (Vietnamese: Bộ đội Bình Xuyên, IPA: [ɓɨ̂n swiəŋ]), often linked to its infamous leader, General Lê Văn Viễn (nicknamed "Bảy Viễn"), was an independent military force within the Vietnamese National Army whose leaders once had lived outside the law and had sided with the Việt Minh.
A highly-effective logistician, [12] he was the principal architect of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the logistical network between North and South Vietnam which is recognised as one of the 20th century's great feats of military engineering. [14] Giáp is often credited with North Vietnam's military victory over the United States and South Vietnam. [1]
In the Battle of Saigon from 28 April to 3 May 1955, Bảy Viễn and his loyal troops were forced back to the Rừng Sác jungle where they were defeated by the regular army. Vien stated that he was critical of the United States for having imposed on Vietnam the dictature of Ngô Đình Diệm [4] (Le Monde, 30 September 1972).