Army Reporter information
for 173 ABN
From date 710307 to 710313
173 ABN was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Binh Dinh Province, II Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Bong Son
Description: 29Mar71- Vietnam communiqué Mar. 7-13
173rd Abn Bde
In Binh Dinh Province of Military Region 2 during the afternoon of March 7, and element of the 173rd Airborne Brigade on a reconnaissance mission engaged an estimated enemy platoon eight miles south of Bong Son. U.S. gunships and artillery supported the action which resulted in five of the enemy killed, two individual weapons and one crew-served weapon captured. U.S. casualties were one killed and three wounded.
The source for this information was 7103AR.AVN supplied by Les Hines
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