Operation Pershing

Operation Pershing
Part of Vietnam War

quad 50 machine gun during Operation Pershing
Date12 February 1967 to 19 January 1968
LocationBình Định Province, South Vietnam
Result Allies claim operational success
Belligerents
 United States
 South Vietnam
 South Korea		 Vietnam North Vietnam
Strength
United States 1st Cavalry Division
United States 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division
South Vietnam 22nd Division
South Korea Capital Division
Casualties and losses
United States: 852 killed
22 missing[1]
South Vietnam: 30+ killed[2]
South Korea: unknown		 US body count: 5401 killed[3]

Operation Pershing was an operation conducted by the 1st Cavalry Division, the 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) 22nd Division and the South Korean Capital Division in Bình Định Province, lasting from 12 February 1967 to 19 January 1968.[4]

The operation concluded on 19 January 1968 with the 1st Cavalry Division being ordered to move 350km north from Landing Zone English in Bình Định Province to Camp Evans in Thừa Thiên Province as part of Operation Checkers, to increase the number of manoeveure battalions in I Corps in order to support the besieged Marines at Khe Sanh Combat Base and defeat any other People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) attack across the DMZ.[5]

References

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  1. ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?id=GVN4BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
  2. ↑ http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/390613.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/390613.pdf
  4. ↑ MacGarrigle, George (1998). Combat Operations: Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967. Government Printing Office. p. 181. ISBN 9780160495403.
  5. ↑ Shulimson, Jack; LtCol. Leonard Blasiol; Charles R. Smith; Capt. David A. Dawson (1997). U.S. Marines in Vietnam: 1968, the Defining Year. History and Museums Division, USMC. p. 16. ISBN 0-16-049125-8.

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