unit history information
for A/7/17 CAV
For date 700509
A/7/17 CAV was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Pleiku Province, II Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Camp Holloway
A/7/17 CAV losses were 1 KIA
Aircraft lost in A/7/17 CAV were 1 OH-6A
Description: A/7/17th Cav reported their Scouts were on a recon mission when the lead ship received intense fire and crashed. The observer was killed. The Guns made their runs and the results were 4 NVA killed and a small hootch and bunker complex totally destroyed. After the extraction of the observer's body, the mission was cancelled.
The source for this information was A/7/17 history by WO1 Charles E. Smith III
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