Army Reporter information
for 23 INF DIV
C/7/17 CAV
1/1 CAV
11 LIB
For date 680309
23 INF DIV was a US Army unit
C/7/17 CAV was a US Army unit
1/1 CAV was a US Army unit
11 LIB was a US Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Operation WHEELER/WALLOWA
South Vietnam
Description: The following is an edited version from the weekly Vietnam Communique column in the 9 Mar 1968 issue.
Three Americal cavalry troops currently participating in Operation Wheeler/Wallowa, reported killing 148 enemy by body count on a sweep after a battle which took place west of Tam Ky in Quang Tin Province. Twenty-two of the enemy killed were VC. The action began when gunship crews from C/7/17th Cav made contact with an unknown size enemy force. Two armored platoons from a troop of the 1/1 Cav were immediately sent in to the scene of the contact area. Later, two more platoons from another 1st Sqdn troop were sent to reinforce. Gunship crews and tactical airstrikes reportedly killed over 40 of the enemy while 99 of the kills were credited to the armored ground units. There were two U.S. soldiers killed and 14 wounded and evacuated. Air and ground units of the 11th LIB recorded 11 enemy killed in contacts near the cities of Quang Ngai and Duc Pho in Quang Ngai Province. Two pilots from the brigade's "Primo Aviation Limited" aviation section were piloting their light observation choppers over an area, six miles east of Quang Ngai City, when they spotted seven armed VC soldiers on the South China Sea coastline. One of the pilots, CWO Gil Honda, dropped a smoke grenade to mark the area and alert the other ship, piloted by WO Allen Levy (B/123d Avn). At that time the choppers received enemy automatic weapons fire. The two pilots then made several firing passes over the area and reported killing five VC.
Comments: CWO Honda, Gil; Pilot; ;
WO Levy, Allen; Pilot B/123d Avn; ;
The source for this information was 6803AR.AVN supplied by Les Hines
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