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Operation Middlesex Peak was a security operation during the Vietnam War conducted by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade later joined by the 198th Light Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division in Quảng Tín and Quảng Ngãi Provinces from 10 March to 1 July 1971.
On 6 October 1959 the Somerset Light Infantry and the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry were amalgamated as the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry [4] From 1958 all regiments adopted a common brigade cap badge, a silver bugle-horn. [5] From 1960 the Light Infantry Brigade was based at Copthorne Barracks in Shropshire. [6] On 1 July 1968 the ...
11th Infantry Brigade and 198th Infantry Brigade operation: Quảng Ngãi Province: 781: 93 Mar 1 – Jul 1: Operation Middlesex Peak [1] 196th Infantry Brigade, 198th Infantry Brigade and ARVN 2nd Division operation: Quang Tin and Quảng Ngãi Provinces: 463: Mar 9: Operation Bright Light [1] 198th Infantry Brigade POW recovery operation ...
Operation Attleboro was a Vietnam War search and destroy operation initiated by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade with the objective to discover the location(s) of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) base areas and force them to fight.
An attack on Company A, 1/20th resulted in 2 PAVN killed and 1 captured while US losses were 5 killed. On 11 April the 11th Infantry Brigade assumed control of the operation. On 23 April a booby-trap killed 7 soldiers of Company C, 4th Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment. On 29 April Company D, 3/1st found a weapons cache containing 100 ...
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade was tasked with conducting search and clear operations in the area of operations in southeastern Quảng Ngãi Province to destroy People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Vietcong (VC) bases and forces, interdict PAVN/VC supply routes from the Central Highlands to the populated coastal areas and maintain liaison with Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Ranger ...
199th Infantry Brigade (Light) (Vietnam) Company N, 75th Infantry (Ranger) 1 February 1969: 25 August 1971: 74th Infantry Detachment (LRP) 173rd Airborne Brigade (Vietnam) Company O, 75th Infantry (Ranger) Company O (Arctic Ranger), 75th Infantry (Ranger) 1 February 1969 4 August 1970: 20 November 1969 29 September 1972: 78th Infantry ...
1 January. U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam numbered 156,800 while Free World Military Forces (largely Republic of Korea Army) numbered 53,900. [4]: 387 The South Vietnamese government announced that there had been 20 breaches of the New Year's ceasefire resulting in nine South Vietnamese and 16 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)/Vietcong VC killed.