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North Vietnam withdrew its diplomats from Cambodia. [3]: 331 26 March. North Vietnam refused an offer by South Vietnam for the release and repatriation of 343 wounded or ill prisoners of war, declaring that there were no members of the PAVN in the south. The North Vietnamese representatives at the Paris Peace Talks asserted that the captives ...
5 September 1970 - 8 October 1971. Operation Jefferson Glenn was the last major ground operation in which U.S. troops participated in the Vietnam War. Three battalions of the 101st Airborne Division patrolled the area west of the city of Huế, called the "rocket belt", to try to prevent PAVN/VC rocket attacks. The Americans were gradually ...
Holloway Airfield, 13 April 1966. Camp Holloway was established in 1962. It was located along Route 19 approximately 3km east of Pleiku in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The camp was named in 1963 for Piasecki CH-21 helicopter pilot Warrant Officer Charles E. Holloway, who in December 1962 became the first aviator assigned to the 81st Transportation Company to be killed in action.
John A. B. Dillard (September 1, 1919 – May 12, 1970) was a United States Army major general who was killed in action on May 12, 1970, in South Vietnam. General Dillard was one of five U.S. Army general officers killed in action in the Vietnam War.
On 30 October 1970 the base, occupied by 6th Battalion, 14th Artillery and elements of B Battery, 4th Battalion, 60th Artillery, was attacked by the PAVN, resulting in 3 U.S. deaths and 20 U.S. wounded. [4] Other units stationed at Oasis included: 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment; 7th Battalion, 15th Artillery (April–October 1971) [1]
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]
South Vietnam June 4, 1971 – June 5, 1971: Risked his life by attacking a wave of enemy forces alone to allow the rest of his platoon to escape Raymond M. Clausen Jr. Marine Corps: Private First Class: South Vietnam January 31, 1970: Risked his life to rescue several Marines and corpsman from a minefield Ronald L. Coker † Marine Corps
Activated 15 April 1963 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (organic elements constituted 27 February 1963 and 15 April 1963). Battalion inactivated 4 December 1970 at Fort Lewis, Washington. Redesignated I September 1971 as the 6th Battalion 14th Field Artillery. Assigned 13 September 1972 to the 1st Armored Division and activated in Germany.