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Operation Lam Son 719. Operation Lancaster. Operation Lancaster II. Operation Linebacker. Operation Linebacker II. List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1964) List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1965) List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1966) List of allied military operations of the ...
PAVN/VC military deaths. 444,000–666,000. Civilian deaths (North and South Vietnam) 405,000–627,000. Total deaths. 1,353,000. A 1995 demographic study in Population and Development Review calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related Vietnamese deaths, both soldiers and civilians, for all of Vietnam from 1965 to 1975.
1 missing [1] US body count: 1,290 killed. 513 probably killed. 1 captured [1] 100 weapons recovered. Operation Buffalo (2–14 July 1967) was an operation of the Vietnam War that took place in the southern half of the Demilitarized Zone, around Con Thien.
The Combined Action Program was a United States Marine Corps counterinsurgency tool during the Vietnam War.It was widely remembered by the Marine Corps as effective. Operating from 1965 to 1971, it placed a 13-member Marine rifle squad, augmented by a U.S. Navy Corpsman and strengthened by a Vietnamese militia platoon of older youth and elderly men, in or adjacent to a rural Vietnames
The 1st Battalion 9th Marines (1/9) was an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps. Formed during World War I, it served until the mid-2000s when it was deactivated to make room for one of three light armor reconnaissance battalions. During the Vietnam War, 1/9 sustained an especially high casualty rate as they faced extraordinary ...
Con Thien is located at 16°54′35″N 106°58′48″E (MGRS 48QYD113703) and was originally established as a Special Forces / CIDG camp on 20 February 1967 at Hill 158 by Special forces Det. A-110. [2] The camp was built by a detachment from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4. [2] and turned over to the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, on 27 ...
This article is a list of known military operations of the Vietnam War in 1967, conducted by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States and their allies. 3rd Marine Division operation. Writer Bernard B. Fall was killed by a VC mine while observing this operation. 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 47th ...
North Vietnamese figures: 1,436 wounded (before mid-March) [21] 2,469 KIA (from 20 January until 20 July 1968). [1] The Battle of Khe Sanh (21 January – 9 July 1968) was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), during the Vietnam War.