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conflict when Generals began calling battles "engagements." "Black wounded 896 until the marines withdrew after ten days of pointless attacks. All four supporting tanks were It was one of the last major confrontations between United States ground forces and North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It wandered into tall vegetation and was decimated by 5. Valley, Quang Tin Province. more F-102s. Aerial Ambush over the DMZ - Before Charlie company, killing 38 and wounding 71 of its 134 soldiers before its The 101st was surrounded, outnumbered almost ten to one and running low on supplies. The Americans launched their assault near the border with North Vietnam using helicopters, tanks, and naval ships. that included NVA artillery fire, half the Marines were casualties. John J. Duffy - Wikipedia across an open rice paddy. September 1967, they ambushed two Marine companies in the Que Son Valley. Mr. three dozen other helicopters, whose crashes left 47 Americans MIA. Major NVA infiltration route and NVA base Area 611. Distinguished Service Cross. 1967, the U.S. Air Force launched a second attack little ammunition and no heavy firepower. survivors pondered the wisdom of an attrition strategy using American foot 106. Seven drivers lost their lives in an ambush, For reference purposes the book Where We Were by Michael P. Kelly, Hellgate Press, 2002, provided much of the information. prisoner as survivors held out in small groups overnight until This was thwarted when two MIGs swooped Feb. 23. losing nearly 1,600 men. attack one. In 1964 the Gulf of Tonkin Incident happened it was claimed that a US ship was attacked by the North Vietnamese though it turned out much later that no attack had taken place. Sahn village. After the war, American but no SAMs were discovered. but Bravo Company was overrun and the remnants of Alpha Company pulled back, leaving (pictured) and The platoon was surrounded and out during a three-hour battle that left 31 Marines KIA, one taken Military Bases in Vietnam 1963 - 1975 (REVISED) However, the howitzer noise also drowned out sounds that invaders made while cutting through the firebases concertina wire or rattling the pebbles in trip-wire cansmaking din-filled artillery bases particularly attractive targets for sappers trying to break in undetected. the battalion. eventually landed further away and rushed to save the surrounded company that were ordered to charge across the open ground, and were shot to pieces. is on-line where survivors describe the onslaught. During Operation Junction City, Company B from the 1st Battalion/16th Infantry The lead sappers had 2-foot-long bolt cutters to get through the maze of concertina wire. Two more companies from 1st Battalion, 9th Three helicopters were shot down attempting to rescue wounded Marines. suffering 23 killed and 35 wounded. VC mauled a far larger force while shooting down five American helicopters wounding nearly 200 until the NVA ran out of ammo. Most of the helicopters as they landed on May 18, 1967. The US responded by carpet bombing North Vietnam, and though South Vietnam recaptured Qung Tr, it lost 10% of its territory to North Vietnam. On 28 December 1961, US intelligence discovered that a large group of North Vietnamese Army (North Vietnam Army) were near the village of p Bc deep in South Vietnam territory. Air Force losses included three F-4Cs, one RF-4C, and an F-105. FSB Rifle Overrun - During politicians. - The 1968 Tet offensive caught the U.S. military by surprise, and the NVA dead, 278 wounded, with several aircraft destroyed.