On the morning of 17 October, two rifle companies of the 2nd Battalion returned to the bunker system they had found the previous day, but they were defeated by the VC 271st Regiment which had set up an ambush in anticipation of the American attack.

Jun 25, 2019 · On April 30, the NVA struck near the hamlet of Dai Do, about a mile from Dong Ha, sparking a gunfight that raged through May 3 in one of the war’s deadliest confrontations—which ended in a victory by the outnumbered Marines that became one of the Corps’ legendary battles.

Pages in category "Ambushes of the Vietnam War" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

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.

Nov 16, 2009 · During part of what would become known as the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, a battalion from the 1st Cavalry Division is ambushed by the 8th Battalion of the North Vietnamese 66th Regiment.

Nov 13, 2018 · "When things started it just erupted," Lawrence said. "They (the PAVN) were everywhere on our right flank, even in the trees. We were caught inside of what was essentially an L-shaped ambush."

In the dim light of dawn on 24 May 1967, a two-boat Navy patrol was silently drifting down a South Vietnamese river when Vietcong machine-gun fire erupted. Within minutes, the pair of PBRs was decimated and half their crew members dead.

In October 1967, in a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable.

At the hamlet of Ap Bac, the Vietcong 514th Battalion and local guerrilla forces ambush the South Vietnamese Army's 7th division. For the first time, the Vietcong stand their ground against...

Weapons included daggers and swords, and explosives captured from the Americans to ambush patrols. Booby traps were made from pointed bamboo sticks, mines, grenades and artillery shells.