Americal Daily News Sheets information
for 23 INF DIV
123 AVN
F/8 CAV
For date 681224
23 INF DIV was a US Army unit
123 AVN was a US Army unit
F/8 CAV 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 Americal Daily News Sheets Vol. 2 No. 249 Wednesday December 25.
CHU LAI (AMERICAL IO) - Americal Division forces reported killing two NVA and eight VC, discovering four NVA bodies, capturing two VC and 12 individual weapons and detaining three VC suspects in light scattered action in southern I Corps yesterday.
"Charger" units of the 196th Inf. Bde. and a Mobile Strike Force element OPCON to the 196th killed two NVA and two VC and detained two VC suspects in action near Tam Ky and Que Son.
Mobile Strike Force 14 engaged a platoon-sized element 11 miles west of Que Son early in the morning and killed two NVA and detained two VC suspects and three AK-47 rifles.
A Trp., 1st Sqdn., 1st Cav., OPCON with the 2-1 Inf., caught three VC fleeing west and killed one with small arms fire 23 mile southwest of Tam Ky. Nearer Tam Ky, recon troops of the 3-21 Inf. also killed on e VC suspect fleeing west.
Troops of the 198th Inf. Bde. and supporting gunships killed four VC and detained two VC suspects during light contact in the "Brave and Bold" area.
"Aero Scouts" of the 123d Avn. Bn. killed four VC while flying a visual recon mission over an area 10 miles west of Chu Lai at noon. The VC were carrying packs and Chicom hand greandes.
Two VC suspects were detained three miles south of Chu Lai by Co. A, 5-46 Inf., led by CPT Herbert A. Walter (Columbus, GA).
Infantrymen of 5-46 and 1-6 spent the afternoon patrolling the Chu Lai area to ensure the safety of thousands of Americal Division troops who watched the Bob Hope Christmas show at the Division amphitheater.
In a day of very light action, 11th Inf. Bde. troops found the graves of four NVA soldiers, detained one VC suspect and assembled nine weapons from parts captured in a cache three days ago.
The NVA graves, approximately two days old, were found 25 miles west of Duc Pho by a recon platoon of the 3-1 Inf. The NVA had been killed by small arms fire.
The first platoon of Co. C, 4-21 Inf. completed assembling parts of nine-weapons, including two French rifles, a French submachinegun, a Chicom K-44, two 30-cal. rifles, two M-1 carbines and a 12-guage shotgun.
A 60-year-old Vietnamese female suspected of being a Viet Cong was detained three miles northwest of Duc Pho by Co. A, B-1 Inf.
Two VC were killed two miles northeast of Thang Binh by B Trp., 1st Sqdn.,
One Americal Division soldier was killed and one wounded and evacuated for medical treatment, while two members of the Mobile Strike Force were killed and eight evacuated, according to an inital report.
The source for this information was NEWS6812.AML & AVN supplied by Les Hines
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