Pacific Stars and Stripes information
for CIDG
24 STZ
For date 700422
CIDG was a Vietnamese Army unit
24 STZ was a Vietnamese Army unit
Primary service involved, Vietnamese Army
Kontum Province, II Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Dak Seang
Description: The following is an edited version of an article titled "Viets Kill 23 Reds Near Dak Seang Camp."
Saigon (S&S Vietnam Bureau) - Vietnamese army troops killed 23 enemy soldiers Monday night 600 yards from the Dak Seang Special Forces camp during a day of relatively light ground action, according to Allied spokesmen. The renewed fighting at Dak Seang began about 9 p.m. on the west side of the camp when 42nd Regt. troops met an unknown-size force of the 28th NVA Regt., ARVN spokesmen reported. They said the firefight continued until midnight when the NVA withdrew, leaving behind 23 dead. ARVN sources said their forces lost two men killed and 19 wounded. One mile east of the Kontum Province outpost, which had been surrounded from April 1 until April 10 when a Montagnard Mobile Strike Force battalion reached the camp and Air Force F100 Super Sabre pilots bombed and strafed an enemy position killing 10 NVA, U.S. officials reported. An element from the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Div. lost one man killed and six wounded in Thua Thien Province near Hue, during a clash that began in the afternoon and continued well in to the night, according to American officials. U.S. officials said the enemy dragged away their killed or wounded and that enemy losses were unknown. In Tay Ninh Province, 54 miles north-northwest of Saigon, 1st Air Cav. Div. helicopter crewmen from the 3rd Brigade spotted 30 enemy troops early Monday, according to U.S. officials. The chopper crews dropped flares and rolled in on the enemy troops with M60 machine guns. They reported spotting 10 enemy bodies in the kill zone. Shortly before noon Sunday, an enemy prisoner led a reconnaissance company from the 2nd ARVN Inf. Div. to an area 27 miles west of Quang Ngai, 70 miles south southeast of Da Nang. The ARVN soldiers uncovered 117 Russian-made rifles, 50 122mm rockets, one ton of rocket propelled grenades and 170 mortar rounds, according to ARVN officials.
The source for this information was 7004pss.avn supplied by Les Hines 02/02/2000
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