Army Reporter information
for 23 INF DIV
C/7/17 CAV
11 LIB
196 LIB
For date 680330
23 INF DIV was a US Army unit
C/7/17 CAV was a US Army unit
11 LIB was a US Army unit
196 LIB was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Operation WHELLER/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 30 Mar 1968 issue.
Units of the Americal Division reported killing 29 enemy soldiers and capturing 12 individual weapons during small unit contacts in I Corps. Action in the 196th LIB's Operation Wheeler/Wallowa area netted the infantrymen 11 enemy killed in a number of brief skirmishes northwest of Tam Ky. A company of the 1/6th Inf, commanded by CPT Robert D. Leinen Sr., located a bunker and tunnel complex. As the soldiers searched the area they found 718 rounds of .30 cal. ammunition and an assortment of field equipment, medical supplies and documents. The Jungle Warriors of the 11th LIB killed 10 VC soldiers during contacts in the Operation Muscatine area and around Duc Pho. Cavalrymen from the 1/1st Cav killed seven communist soldiers during a reconnaissance operation seven miles northwest of Tam Ky. The troopers were supported throughout the mission by helicopter gunship crews of C/7/17th Cav. Civic action soldiers of the brigade treated 367 Vietnamese patients in two MEDCAP's held yesterday.
The source for this information was 6803AR.AVN supplied by Les Hines
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