Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Still, the question remains whether ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) will be able to hold its own against the battle-seasoned North Vietnamese. Because of the reduced level of enemy activity, ARVN has not yet faced a major test. Yet in the one sustained battle that it...
Presidential Pressure. The battle was an eight-week engagement involving the Special Forces camps of Bu Prang and Due Lap in the Central Highlands along the Cambodian border. At least eight battalions under the command of the ARVN 23rd division, which had failed twice in the past two years to...
South Vietnamese claimed that they had killed 1,519 enemy soldiers while losing only 285 themselves. Though the enemy casualty figures were probably inflated, there was no doubt that ARVN troopers had blocked the North Vietnamese from accomplishing their goals: 1) to take one or both of the camps by...
In late October, when the Communist troops began to mass around Bu Prang and Due Lap, American commanders warned Colonel Vo Van Canh, the commander of the 23rd division, that they would give him air and artillery support, but that he would have to handle the ground fighting himself. Under...
During the fighting, the South Vietnamese ran their own supply line and conducted the evacuation of their wounded by air-tasks that Americans would have been performing only a few months ago. The count of American casualties in the eight-week engagement reflected the reduced American role: 24 killed and...