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1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines clear and search operation: Đa Krông Valley, Quảng Trị Province: Oct 25 – Nov 2: Operation Harvest [1] [5] 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment reconnaissance in force and interdiction operation: Phước Tuy Province: Oct 25 – Nov 2: Operation ...
Date Duration Operation Name Unit(s) – Description Location VC–PAVN KIAs Allied KIAs 67: Operation Auburn I [1]: 7th Marines security operation in the "rocket belt": around Da Nang, Quảng Nam Province
Company B, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division: Iwo Jima: 3 March 1945 [10] Walter K. Singleton: Sergeant: Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division: Republic of Vietnam: 24 March 1967 [11] Frank P. Witek: Private First Class: 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division: Guam: 3 August 1944 [12]
Nov 8 – 14: Operation Arcadia [1] 1st Battalion 1st Marines and 3rd Battalion 1st Marines search and destroy operation: Quảng Nam Province: Nov 9 – 27: Operation Dragon Eye [2] ROK 2nd Marine Brigade search and destroy operation: Quảng Ngãi Province: 154: 38 ROK, 4 US Nov 16 – Jan 12 67: Operation Dan Tam 81 [1]
On the morning of 2 July, Alpha and Bravo Companies, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines made their way up north on Highway 561 and secured a crossroad as their first objective. As they went further north between Gia Binh and An Kha, near a place called "The Market Place" (), they made contact with the elements of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 90th Regiment when sniper fire began to break
21 January - 23 November. Operation Lancaster II a security operation to keep Route 9 open to Ca Lu Combat Base in northern Quảng Trị Province commences. By the end of the operation the Marines had lost 359 killed; PAVN fatalities were estimated to be in excess of 1,800. [13]: 119 23 January. North Korean forces seize the USS Pueblo. [19]: 152
Operation Coronado IX was a riverine military operation conducted by the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) of the United States and elements of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) from November 1967 to January 1968 in an attempt to destroy Viet Cong (VC) strongholds in the Mekong Delta.
The 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines (3/9) is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps. Formed during World War I it served until the early 1990s when it was redesignated as 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines (3/4) during a realignment and renumbering of the Marine Corps' infantry battalions, following the deactivation of the 9th Marine Regiment .