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LZ Bronco at Duc Pho became the base camp for Task Force Barker, an element of the 11th Brigade, Americal Division by 1968. Task Force Barker was named for Lt. Col. Frank Barker, its commander. Bronco was located near the southern border of I Corps, the northernmost corps in Vietnam, a particularly difficult area of operations.
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The 5th Special Forces Group Detachment A-343 [1] first established a base here in 1966. The base was located 30 km east of Sông Bé and 48 km northeast of Đồng Xoài. [2]
On 6 October a combined U.S. Marine-South Vietnamese operation, Operation Maui Peak was launched to clear the hills around the base. The forces involved included the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines and resulted in an estimated 353 PAVN killed for the loss of 28 Marines.
U.S. losses were 97 killed while PAVN/VC losses until the end of July were 1,339 killed and 410 weapons captured. [2]: 242 By the end of July Highway 1 was open throughout the 3rd Brigade sector during daylight, and South Vietnamese officials claimed that the government controlled over half of the Đức Phổ District's population, a 100 percent increase since February.
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
The Battle of Phước Long was a decisive battle of the Vietnam War which began on 12 December 1974, and concluded on 6 January 1975. The battle involved the deployment of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 4th Army Corps for the first time, against determined units of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in Phước Long in Bình Phước Province near the Cambodian border (to be ...
District 12 (Vietnamese: Quận 12) is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest and most populous city in Vietnam.. As of 2010, the district had a population of 427,083. [1]