Pacific Stars and Stripes information
for 42 ARVN REGT
101 ABN
1 MAR DIV
11 ARC
For date 700428
42 ARVN REGT was a Vietnamese Army unit
101 ABN was a US Army unit
1 MAR DIV was a US Marine Corps unit
11 ARC was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Kontum Province, II Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Dak Seang
Description: The following is an edited version of an article titled "Copters, RFs Kill 31 During Delta Clash."
Saigon (S&S Vietnam Bureau) - Battle action was light throughout Vietnam Saturday, according to both the Vietnamese and American commands. The largest kill of the day, according to a Vietnamese military spokesman, was inflicted by a Regional Force company which clashed with an unknown Red force in the Mekong Delta 131 miles southwest of Saigon Saturday. Helicopter gunships swooped in to knock out 18 Reds while the RF troops killed 13 more, the spokesman said. He said there were no friendly casualties. Seventeen more Reds were killed in Kontum Province in Vietnam's Central Highlands Saturday afternoon when they shelled and then charged a position of a battalion of the ARVN 42nd Inf. Regt. The Reds were hit with an artillery barrage and tactical air strikes. No ARVN casualties were reported. Though the Vietnamese command reported 57 offensive operations throughout the country Saturday, the above incidents were apparently their only major conflicts. The biggest item in the American command's Saturday report was 42 Red soldiers killed, 47 secondary explosions and the destruction of 43 enemy fortifications and 286 bunkers plus other enemy materiel by 296 tactical air strikes flown in Vietnam, 36 of them supporting troops in ground contact with the enemy. The 101st Airborne Div., operating in the northernmost part of the country, reportedly had several contacts Saturday. Spokesmen reported the 101st troopers killed at least 17 Reds in three clashes, including one in which air strikes were called in to pound a Red truck convoy. Spokesmen reported five trucks destroyed in the convoy. U.S. Marine artillery killed at least seven Reds about noon Saturday when a reconnaissance element of the 1st Marine Div. called in the big guns on 12 enemy soldiers they spotted operating in an area seven miles northeast of An Hoa, again in the northernmost part of Vietnam, according to the U.S. spokesman. Two Americans were killed and four wounded with unknown enemy losses when an undetermined number of Reds ambushed an American convoy traveling north of Highway QL-1 four miles west-northwest of Qui Nhon, the spokesman reported. Eleventh Armored Cav. helicopter gunships blasted away at an enemy platoon near Phuoc Binh in III Corps north of Saigon Saturday morning and killed at least seven Reds, the spokesman said. He said that during the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Sunday, 35 enemy indirect fire attacks were reported throughout the country, six of them against U.S. units and installations. Only nine of the attacks resulted in casualties or damage, he said. Five Americans were reportedly killed in the attacks and 28 wounded.
The source for this information was 7004pss.avn supplied by Les Hines 02/02/2000
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