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Marines build an ammunition bunker at Con Thien, January 1968 Marines from 1st Battalion, 4th Marines build a fighting bunker, Con Thien, January 1968 2/4 Marines patrol with a tank south of Con Thien, 9 February 1968. 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines took over the defense of Con Thien in mid-December. During the Christmas truce period the Battalion ...
1 missing [1] US body count: 1,290 killed. 513 probably killed. 1 captured [1] 100 weapons recovered. Operation Buffalo (2–14 July 1967) was an operation of the Vietnam War that took place in the southern half of the Demilitarized Zone, around Con Thien .
5 captured. 1,942 estimated killed. 155 weapons recovered [2] Operation Kingfisher was a U.S. Marine Corps operation that took place during the Vietnam War. [3] The operation was carried out in the western part of "Leatherneck Square" near Con Thien, lasting from 16 July to 31 October 1967.
On 25 May, H Company, 2/26 Marines, engaged a large PAVN Company at the base of Hill 117 5 km west of Con Thien. H Company joined by K Company, 3/4 Marines, made repeated advances up the hill against the PAVN with heavy fighting lasting throughout the day and cost 14 Marines and corpsmen killed and 92 wounded and claimed 41 PAVN killed.
The base was established 12.5 km northwest of Đông Hà and 5 km southeast of Con Thien to protect the land route to Con Thien and particularly the C-2 bridge immediately north of the base. [1] [2] By December 1967 all bunkers at C-2 had been completed and all minefields laid and perimeter barbed wire emplaced. [3]
9 captured. Operation Prairie IV was an operation conducted by the United States Marine Corps in the area around Con Thien, South Vietnam known as Leatherneck Square from 20 April until 17 May 1967. During the course of the fighting Marine casualties were 164 killed 1,240 wounded while claiming 505 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) killed and 9 ...
Operation Buffalo was a major operation that took place in the southern half of the DMZ, northeast of Con Thien. On 2 July the PAVN 90th Regiment ambushed the 1st Battalion 9th Marines, the Marines suffered 84 killed, 190 wounded and 9 missing making this the worst one-day loss for the Marines in Vietnam. [9]: 103 7 July
Operation Kentucky was a multi-battalion operation conducted by the United States Marine Corps in the area south of the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. This was another operation to secure the Con Thien area from the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). The operation ran from 1 November 1967 until 28 February 1969.