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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. 1968 Battle during the Vietnam War Tet offensive attacks on Da Nang Part of the Tet offensive of the Vietnam War Map of the Da Nang vital area Date 29 January – 11 February 1968 Location Da Nang, South Vietnam Result Allied victory Belligerents United States South Vietnam South Korea ...
The VC fired rockets at Da Nang Air Base and then at 02:30 on 30 January they launched a sapper and mortar attack on the south of the base killing four Marines. At 03:30 a renewed rocket attack on the base began with 55 122 mm rockets hitting within 20 minutes, killing three marines and wounding 11 and destroying five aircraft and damaging a ...
The Tet Offensive [a] was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on 30 January 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies.
Intelligence later determined that the PAVN force encountered by the Marines was the 36th Regiment, 308th Division which had only recently arrived in South Vietnam and that they were probably deployed in preparation for an attack on Danang as part of the "mini-Tet" or May Offensive. Operation Allen Brook prevented any such attack and mini-Tet ...
5th Marine Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, 1st Battalion, 327th Airborne Infantry, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Airborne Infantry, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines operation to reopen and secure Route 1, between Da Nang and Phu Bai: Thừa Thiên Province: 702: 117 Feb 27 – mid Apr: Operation Pinnaroo [5]
Forward Operating Base 4 (also known as FOB 4) is a former Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) Command and Control North base. It was near the Marble Mountains southeast of Da Nang, Vietnam. Seabees from NMCB 12 built sea huts on the base in 1968. [1]
[3]: 65 In Da Nang a company from the R20 Battalion and a sapper platoon infiltrated Forward Operating Base 4, a compound just south of Marble Mountain Air Facility that contained a Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group headquarters, several Special Forces teams and a MIKE Force company, killing 17 Special ...
Marines waiting to board HMM-164 helicopters at An Hòa in 1968. In August 1966 the Marines completed the construction of the MSR (main supply route) between Da Nang and An Hòa, naming it the "Liberty Road". [2]: 209 It was decided that a bridge would be built to shorten the route.