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AC-47 gunships held back the PAVN/VC while a platoon of Marines mounted in amphibian tractors, with tanks and helicopter gunships escorting, attacked east from An Hoa to reinforce the hamlet and bring an ammunition resupply. The battle raged for five hours, during which the Marines threw back four attack waves. At 03:30 the shooting died down.
Base Area 112 was a Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) base area located in the mountains of Quảng Nam Province southwest of Da Nang near the area known to the Marines as the "Arizona Territory" The base was believed to support the PAVN 21st Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 68B Rocket Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 141st Regiment and command and support units.
2nd Battalion, 9th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines operation: southwest of Ca Lu, Quảng Trị Province: May 26 – Nov 7: Operation Pipestone Canyon [1] [5]: 174 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines and ROK 2nd Marine Brigade clear and search operation
Having lied about his age to join the Marine Corps he was killed in a sapper attack at An Hoa Combat Base. [48] Following a rocket and artillery barrage, at 04:30 two battalions of the PAVN 88th Regiment attacked Firebase Crook, but were forced back by gunship fire. PAVN losses were 323 killed without loss among U.S. forces. [49]: 99–101 8 June
The 9 hours long battle resulted in 3 Marines killed and 24 wounded while the PAVN lost 44 killed. That night Company B 1/26 Marines ambushed a retreating PAVN unit killing 13 for no Marine losses. [1]: 344 On 14 June 3rd Battalion 5th Marines deployed from the An Hoa Combat Base into the Arizona Territory. As Company I advanced it was hit by ...
ARVN 9th Division, 21st Division, 5 Armored Cavalry Squadrons and Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps airborne, amphibious and mechanized operation to clear the banks of the Mekong River to allow access to a fleet of over 100 ships to evacuate 17,300 Vietnamese civilians from Phnom Penh and to clear the supply route from Phnom Penh to Kampong Cham
Tet 1969 refers to the attacks mounted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) in February 1969 in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, one year after the original Tet Offensive. Most attacks centered on military targets near Saigon and Da Nang and were quickly beaten off.
The 5th Marines surrounded the PAVN 1st Battalion, 36th Regiment at Chau Phong but the PAVN attempted to escape rather than fight. [ 1 ] : 423–4 On 27 October a unit of the 5th Regiment observed 15 PAVN moving 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of An Hoa and called in artillery fire and airstrikes on them killing 14.