Army Reporter information
for 23 INF DIV
F/8 CAV 23 INF
1/1 CAV
Operation = BURLINGTON TRAIL
For date 680727
23 INF DIV was a US Army unit
F/8 CAV 23 INF was a US Army unit
1/1 CAV was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Operation WHEELER/WALLOWA
Quang Ngai Province, I Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Tam Ky
Description: The following is an edited version from the weekly Vietnam Communique column in the 27 July 1968 issue.
The Americal Div experienced a week of heavy fighting killing 160 enemy soldiers. The tempo of activity picked up in the southern portion of the I Corps Tactical Zone. Troopers of the 1/1st Cav and gunship crews of F/8th Cav accounted for 12 VC killed in scattered action throughout the Wheeler/Wallowa and Burlington Trail area. F Troop gunners reported seven of the kills during a firefight 25 miles NW of Tam Ky. A night assault on a village four miles north of Duc Pho by 11th LIB soldiers and supporting helicopter crews resulted in nine enemy killed. A VC sapper squad had been trapped in the village. Soldiers of the 196th LIB killed eight VC and captured 65 weapons. Riflemen of the 3/21st Inf operating west of Tam Ky called in artillery on a group of enemy seen moving south of LZ Center. The fire mission resulted in four enemy killed. Ground contacts accounted for the other eight.
The source for this information was 6807AR.AVN supplied by Les Hines
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