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Hill 55 (also known as Nui Dat Son or Camp Muir) is a hill 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) southwest of Da Nang, Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam. The hill is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast of the confluence of the Yen, Ai Nghia, and La Tho Rivers and was a United States Marine Corps base during the Vietnam War .
The operation results in 977 PAVN killed and five captured while U.S. losses were 113 killed and ARVN losses were 31 killed. [37] Most of the U.S. casualties were in the Battle of Hamburger Hill from May 13–20 where U.S. forces attacked heavily fortified PAVN positions on Hill 937. 630 PAVN, 72 U.S. and 31 ARVN were killed in the fighting for ...
Zaffiri, Samuel, Hamburger Hill, May 10- May 20, 1969 (1988), ISBN 0-89141-706-0; Linderer, A, Gary, Eyes Behind The Lines: L Company Rangers in Vietnam, 1969 (1991) ISBN 0-8041-0819-6; Boccia, Frank, The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969 (2013), ISBN 978-0786474394
Captured by Viet Cong while on a road-clearing operation. Died of malnutrition and disease in November 1969 [119] Died in captivity, remains not returned [3] March 18: Switzer, Jerrold A: Private First Class: USMC: 1st Combined Action Group: South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi Province: Drowned in the Quảng Ngãi River while trying to assist ...
the first phase of secret B-52 bombing of eastern Cambodia; the start of a four-year bombing campaign that drew Cambodia into the Vietnam War: eastern Cambodia: Mar 18 – May 28, 1970: Operation Menu [11]: 13 US Strategic Air Command secret bombing of Cambodia: Cambodia: Mar 18 – Feb 28 1971: Operation Frederick Hill [1] [12]: 290
American soldiers killed 504 people on March 16, 1968, in Son My, a collection of hamlets between the central Vietnamese coast and a ridge of misty mountains, in an incident known in the West as ...
The Rangers met only slight, disorganized resistance. By 01:00 the next morning, the bodies of 264 PAVN/VC soldiers lay in the village, and 87 had been captured or surrendered. More than 100 individual and crew-served weapons were captured. ARVN casualties were 10 killed and 100 wounded and one US Army photographer was killed.
On 23 December a booby-trap killed 1 soldier of Company A, 1/46th. On 24 December Company D, 2/1st engaged a PAVN/VC force. Offensive operations ended at 18:00 on 24 December for a 24-hour Christmas truce. On 29 December the 116th Aviation Regiment killed 8 PAVN and Troop F, 8th Cavalry engaged 7 PAVN, killing 1.