Americal Daily News Sheets information
for 23 INF DIV
14 CAB
F/8 CAV
For date 681013
23 INF DIV was a US Army unit
14 CAB was a US Army unit
F/8 CAV was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
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. 178 Monday October 14.
CHU LAI (AMERICAL IO) - Americal Division units and supporting elements accounted for 16 VC killed and 19 VC suspects detained in the southern I Corps area yesterday.
"Charger" units and supporting elements accounted for 15 VC killed in the Operation Wheeler/Wallowa area yesterday.
In an area 16 miles northwest of Tam Ky a 1st Bn., 2d Inf. OP observed a group of VC harvesting rice in an unauthorized harvest area. The OP called in artillery, resulting in 5 VC killed.
In an area centered 12 miles west of Tam Ky a reconnaissance element from the 3d Bn., 21st Inf. killed two VC in two separate contacts.
A 4th Bn., 21st Inf. company killed one VC seven miles south of Hoi An. The VC was hiding in a stream when he was killed.
In a series of contacts nine miles south of Hoi An a 4th Bn., 21st Inf. company killed four VC.
Gunships from the 14th Avn. Bn. engaged a group of VC six miles south of Hoi An, killing two.
"Blue Ghosts" of F Trp., 8th Cav. flying in support of the 4th Bn., 21st Inf., engaged and killed one VC seven miles south of Hoi An.
Action in the 11th Inf. Bde. area of operations dropped yesterday. "Jungle Warriors" of the brigade killed one VC and detained three suspects.
The brigade's only kill was credited to early morning artillery fire from the 6th Bn., 11th Arty. The VC body was found in an area seven miles northeast of Duc Pho.
Later in the morning, elements of E Trp., 1st Cav. apprehended two VC suspects in the same area. The two had been wounded by the artillery barrage.
Elements of a 4th Bn., 3d Inf. company led by CPT Grady Middleton (Quincy, FL) captured a VC suspect as they moved through rice paddies southeast of Duc Pho.
The 1st Sqdn., 1st Armored Cav. reported 10 VC suspects detained in the Operation Burlington Trail area yesterday. "Blue Ghosts" of F Trp., 8th Cav. detained two and A Trp., 1st Cav., detained eight.
Units of the 198th Inf. Bde. detained six VC suspects yesterday in the Chu Lai area.
A 5th Bn., 46th Inf. company led by CPT Geoge [sic] L. Harmon detained four VC suspects while sweeping an area yesterday morning. The unit later found and destroyed a tunnel.
Another 5th Bn., 46th Inf. company led by 1LT James J. Frazier (Decatur, IL) located and destroyed an 81mm round while searching an area south of Chu Lai.
"Regulars" of a 1st Bn. 6th Bn., 6th Inf., company led by CPT Thomas A. Chapman (Schofield Barracks, HI) detained one VC suspect while sweeping an area west of Chu Lai.
In the Burlington Trail area a 1st Bn., 52nd Inf., company led by CPT Floyd W. McLean, Jr., (Ft. Sill, OK) captured 700 pounds of rice. The "Ready Rifles" found the rice when they searched two abandoned huts west of Tam Ky. A further search of the area revealed a tunnel which the company destroyed. Shortly afterwards the company detained a VC suspect near the same site.
Civic action soldiers of the brigade treated 183 Vietnamese during two MEDCAPs yesterday.
Americal forces suffered two soldiers killed and 17 wounded and evacuated for medical treatment yesterday.
The source for this information was NEWS6810.AML & AVN supplied by Les Hines
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