operation report information
for 173 ABN

For date 670303


173 ABN was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Operation JUNCTION CITY
Tay Ninh Province, III Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Katum
Description: A company of Sky Soldiers make contact with the enemy during JUNCTION CITY. This resulted in a vicious firefight that raged for 30 minutes in the jungle east of Katum. When the enemy quite the battlefield, 39 dead were left behind but the 173d had 20 KIAs and 28 WIAs.

The source for this information was DAK TO by Murphy P:39


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Date posted on this site: 05/13/2023