Army Reporter information
for 11 LIB
196 LIB
198 LIB
1/1 CAV

From date 681016 to 681022


11 LIB was a US Army unit
196 LIB was a US Army unit
198 LIB was a US Army unit
1/1 CAV was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Operation WHEELER/WALLOWA
Quang Tin Province, I Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Tam Ky
Description: The following is an edited version from the weekly Vietnam Communique column in the 4 Nov 1968 issue which covered the Oct 16-22 period. Americal Division soldiers reported 136 enemy soldiers killed in heavy action during the week. Heaviest concentration was centered in the southern portion of the I Corps where soldiers from the 3/1st Inf, 11th LIB and supporting gunship crews reported 23 VC killed in one day's action. Infantrymen from the 196th LIB accounted for 18 VC killed in several contacts in the Wheeler/Wallowa area. Elements of the 11th LIB's 3/1st Inf also uncovered a cache containing 7,000 pounds of rice. In one day's major action gunship crews of the 174th AHC, 14th CAB flying in support of the 11th, killed 5 VC six miles south of Duc Pho. While operating in the Operation Burlington Trail area, infantrymen from the 198th LIB reported 15 VC killed in addition to finding a cache containing 125 grenades, 3,100 AK47 rounds and eight RPG rounds in a tunnel complex NW of Tam Ky. In another day's action, Americal forces killed 11 VC, detained seven suspects, and captured 2,250 pounds of rice in widely scattered action in the southern portion of the I Corps. The 1/1st Cav reported five VC killed by artillery fire from the 3/16th Arty while firing in support of B Troop in the Burlington Trail area. In action one day, the crew of the 11th Bde's C&C helicopter, commanded by COL John W. Bondalson, engaged and killed five VC in an area six miles south of Duc Pho. The 198th LIB accounted for 10 enemy killed in widely scattered incidents while the 196th LIB accounted for five killed.

The source for this information was 6811AR.AVN supplied by Les Hines


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