operation PEGASUS/LAM SON 207 information
for 1 CAV DIV
26 MARINES
1 MARINES
seige of Khe Sanh
From date 680401 to 680415
1 CAV DIV was a US Army unit
26 MARINES was a US Marine Corps unit
1 MARINES was a US Marine Corps unit
Operation PEGASUS
Quang Tri Province, I Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Khe Sanh
Description: This operation featured 17 U.S. and four ARVN airborne battalions to relieve the siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base. Virtually the entire 1st Air Cav Div was committed along with five Marine battalions, mostly from the 26th Marines. The bulk of the NVA units had already departed the Khe Sanh area. The operation consisted for combat assaults to take the high ground on both sides of route 9 and systematically reopening the road. The forces discovered several caches of NVA supplies, hundreds of enemy corpses, and a "pockmarked, burnt, and ruined" landscape "like the surface of the moon." The companion ARVN operation was named LAM SON 207. Casualties: U.S. 92 KIA, 667 WIA, 5 MIA; ARVN 33 KIA, 187 WIA; enemy 1,044 KIA and 9 POWs.
The source for this information was OOB, "1968"-VE P 50+; Chron P:72
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