Americal Daily News Sheets information
for 23 INF DIV
123 AVN

For date 681007


23 INF DIV was a US Army unit
123 AVN was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Operation DUKES GLADE
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. 172 Tuesday October 8. CHU LAI (AMERICAL IO) - Thirty VC killed and 17 suspects detained were the results of light scattered enemy contacts in the Americal Division's southern I Corps Tactical Zone yesterday. "Jungle Warriors" of the 11th Inf. Bde. killed 18 VC and detained 17 suspects in action centered northeast of Quang Ngai City yesterday. Soldiers of the 1st Bn., 20th Inf. working with "Aero Scouts" of the 123d Avn. Bn. killed eight VC in three contacts in an area centered 10 miles northeast of the province capital. Infantrymen of another 1st Bn., 20th Inf. company killed three VC and detained one VC suspect near huts 11 miles northeast of Quang Ngai City. "Sykes Regulars" also found four 82mm mortar rounds, four shot gun shells, five mortar fuses, and several mud bunkers in a village in the same vicinity. A 4th Bn., 3d Inf. company found three dead VC near Highway 1, 11 miles south of Duc Pho. Another 4th Bn., 3d Inf. company found another VC body late Sunday night near Highway 1, six miles south of Duc Pho. The VC had been killed by harassment and interdiction fire from the 6th Bn., 11th Arty. "Old Guard" soldiers also detained five VC suspects near a stream four miles south of Duc Pho. Late Sunday night troops from a 3d Bn., 1st Inf. company detained 11 VC suspects on a beach three miles north of Duc Pho. Troops of a another 3d Bn., 1st Inf. company found the body of a VC late Sunday night near Highway 1, four miles north of Duc Pho. "Always First" soldiers of one 3d Bn., 1st Inf. company killed a VC six miles west of Duc Pho. The 3d Bn., 1st Inf. command and control helicopter killed one VC near a village four miles north of Duc Pho. In the 196th Inf. Bde.'s area of operations yesterday "Charger" units killed eight VC. A 2d Bn., 1st Inf. company spotted a group of VC 13 miles northwest of Tam Ky. The "Guardians" engaged the enemy with small arms and M-79 fire killing six. The 2d Bn., 1st Inf. command control helicopter killed one VC three miles south of Que Son. A 4th Bn., 21st Inf. reconnaissance platoon engaged and killed one VC seven miles southwest of Hoi An. The 1st Sqdn., 1st Armored Cav. reported four VC killed in their area of operations yesterday. The 3d Bn., 16th Arty. killed four VC eight miles west of Tam Ky while firing in support of "B" Trp., 1st Sqdn. Contacts were light and scattered in the 198th Inf. Bde.'s area of operations yesterday. A 1st Bn., 52d Inf. company led by CPT John A Dierden (Minneapolis, MN) found a tunnel complex while searching an area west of Tam Ky. The "Ready Rifles" found 50 pounds of rice in the complex. "Professionals" of the 5th Bn., 46th Inf. held six MEDCAPs south of Chu Lai. "Regulars" of the 1st Bn., 6th Inf. held two north of Chu Lai. A total of 914 Vietnamese civilians were treated during the eight MEDCAPs. Division forces suffered four soldiers wounded and evacuated for medical treatment as a result of yesterday's contacts. On Oct. 2, a new operation, Duke's Glade, began reconnaissance in force missions approximately 30 miles northwest of Tam Ky. A unit of the 11th Inf. Bde., the 4th Bn., 21st Inf., OPCON to the 198th Inf. Bde., is conducting the mission in the mountainous area. In the first five days of Operation Duke's Glade, 19 enemy have been killed and 17 individual weapons captured.

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