Army Reporter information
for 23 INF DIV
For date 680608
23 INF DIV was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Quang Tin Province, I Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Chu Lai
Description: The following is an edited version from the weekly Vietnam Communique column in the 8 June 1968 issue.
Americal Division's soldiers met heavy action north of Chu Lai resulting in 16 VC and 112 NVA soldiers killed. Elements of the 196th LIB accounted for the majority of the action, killing all but four of the enemy. Eight miles south of Hoi An, soldiers of the 1/52nd Inf engaged an enemy force and called in artillery and airstrikes for support. A sweep of the area after the five and one-half hour firefight revealed 86 enemy killed. The 4/31st Inf encountered an entrenched enemy force 15 miles west of Tam Ky. Artillery and airstrikes were called in to support the infantrymen during the one-hour firefight. A sweep of the area after contact was lost revealed 17 NVA bodies. In the same area, units of the 1/6th Inf killed nine NVA soldiers in several skirmishes and captured seven individual weapons. Twenty miles NW of Tam Ky, the 3/21st Inf encountered an enemy force employing small arms fire and grenades. The unit killed 12 VC.
The source for this information was 6806AR.AVN supplied by Les Hines
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