Army Reporter information
for 1 CAV DIV
1/9 CAV 1 CAV
For date 680727
1 CAV DIV was a US Army unit
1/9 CAV 1 CAV was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Operation JEB STUART II
Quang Tri Province, I Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Quang Tri
Description: The following is an edited version from the weekly Vietnam Communique column in the 27 July 1968 issue.
The soldiers of the 1st Air Cav Div killed 76 enemy in a week of moderate fighting. The heaviest action of the week came when a reconnaissance patrol working an area four and one-half miles south of Quang Tri, spotted enemy movement about 30 yards east of their positions. The infantrymen called in brigade scout helicopter crews to check the area. The chopper crews encountered heavy enemy fire. After the soldiers were in position as a blocking force the helicopters from the 1/9th Cav saturated the area with rockets and minigun fire. The cavalrymen moved in after contact was lost and a sweep of the area revealed 14 enemy bodies. Troopers of the 1/12th Cav engaged three enemy in a building three miles NW of Quang Tri. The 15-minute firefight netted the cavalrymen three NVA killed. The body count in Operation Jeb Stuart II exceeds 1,000 enemy killed.
The source for this information was 6807AR.AVN supplied by Les Hines
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