Army Reporter information
for 1 INF DIV
From date 681216 to 681222
1 INF DIV was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
South Vietnam
Description: The following is an edited version from the weekly Vietnam Communique column in the 6 Jan 1969 issue.
Elements of the 1st Infantry Division reported killing 20 enemy soldiers in a week of light contact.
Big Red One infantrymen of the 1/28th Inf operating near Di An one Dec 18 encountered an estimated VC platoon and killed three of the enemy. Soldiers of the 1/18th Inf killed two VC in action seven miles east of Lai Khe.
Elsewhere, one enemy was killed by elements of the 1/26th Inf.
On Dec 20 elements of the 1st Division killed five enemy during a day of scattered contacts.
An ambush patrol form the 2/16th Inf engaged an estimated four enemy moving down a small dirt patch near Di An. The enemy returned fire an in the brief firefight, three of the enemy were killed.
The source for this information was 6901AR.AVN supplied by Les Hines
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