The Battle of Khe Sanh (21 January – 9 July 1968) was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)...
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Sanh Combat Base was located to the north of the city. The Battle of Khe Sanh took place there. The Khe Sanh Combat Base is a museum where relics of the...
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Khe Sanh Combat Base (also known as Ta Con) was a United States Marine Corps outpost south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) used during the...
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"Khe Sanh" is the debut single by Australian rock band Cold Chisel, released in May 1978 as a 45 rpm single, and named after the district capital of Hướng...
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The Hill Fights (redirect from Battle of Hills 881 and 861)
Hill Fights (also known as the First Battle of Khe Sanh) took place during the Vietnam War between the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 325C Division and United...
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instructions from the North Vietnamese Ministry of Defense to reinforce the 304th Division as part of the Route 9–Khe Sanh Campaign. After an arduous journey down...
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5th Marine Division (United States) (category Divisions of the United States Marine Corps)
participated in the Battle of Khe Sanh, 9 January to 9 July 1968 and was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for its actions at Khe Sanh from 20 January...
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Chick Donohue (category American people of the Vietnam War)
natives, Kevin McLoone and Rick Duggan, and participated briefly in the Battle of Khe Sanh. The following day, he set out for Saigon where he handed out his...
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David E. Lownds (category United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II)
in the Vietnam War, notably as ground commander at Khe Sanh Combat Base during the Battle of Khe Sanh in 1968. Lownds joined the United States Marine Corps...
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26th Marine Regiment (United States) (category Regiments of the United States Marine Corps)
again on 1 March 1966, and fought in the Battle of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. The regiment was composed of three infantry battalions and one headquarters...
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William Westmoreland (category American recipients of the Legion of Honour)
strategic bombing of North Vietnam. Nevertheless, public support for the war eventually diminished, especially after the Battle of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive...
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Khe Sanh can refer to several topics: Khe Sanh, district capital of Hướng Hoá District, Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam Khe Sanh Combat Base, was a United...
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Trần Quý Hai (category Members of the 3rd Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam)
of Vietnam (PAVN) active during the First Indochina War, and the Vietnam War. He commanded Việt Cộng forces in Battle of Khe Sanh and Second Battle of...
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Manny Babbitt (category United States Marine Corps personnel of the Vietnam War)
Babbitt had been wounded at the bloody 1968 Battle of Khe Sanh in Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam. As part of his defense, he claimed he suffered from...
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Bruce B. G. Clarke (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
argue that the US won the battle of Khe Sanh and lost the war at the very same time. There was a battle fought in Khe Sanh village on 21 and 22 January...
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Rathvon M. Tompkins (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
known for his part as commander of the 3rd Marine Division during the Battle of Khe Sanh in Vietnam. During his 36 years of Marine Corps service, Tompkins...
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William H. Dabney (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
as then Captain and commanding officer on Hill 881 near Khe Sanh during the siege of Khe Sanh in the Historical Fiction novel titled "1968" by Kenton...
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USS Hué City (category Cruisers of the United States)
ship named after a battle in the Vietnam War, although it had been planned to name LHA-5 as USS Khe Sanh after the Battle of Khe Sanh, but that ship was...
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Battlefield Vietnam (redirect from List of Battlefield Vietnam mods)
such as the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Battle of Huế, Ia Drang Valley, Operation Flaming Dart, the Battle of Khe Sanh and Fall of Saigon. On 15 March 2005, EA re-released...
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Jurate Kazickas (category American war correspondents of the Vietnam War)
lines for about a year before being wounded by artillery fire at the Battle of Khe Sanh and returning to the US. Kazickas later reported on the women's liberation...
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Max Cleland (category Secretaries of state of Georgia (U.S. state))
the rank of captain. He was awarded the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for valorous action in combat, including during the Battle of Khe Sanh on April...
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Indochina wars (redirect from Indochina War of 1940-1941)
status of the war, also a turning point in American voter opposition to U.S. support for their Cold War Vietnamese allies. The Battle of Khe Sanh, for 77...
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3rd Marine Division (category Divisions of the United States Marine Corps)
Province and more outposts were opened. Camp Carroll, Rockpile, Ca Lu and Khe Sanh. The two main enemy divisions the Marines fought were the 320th Division...
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advances such as effective helicopters. Khe Sanh received 18,000 tons of aerial resupplies during the 77-day battle, whereas during the 167 days that the...
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focus was on the Battle of Khe Sanh, where a PAVN assault was believed to be imminent. In preparation for this, MACV was in the middle of Operation Checkers:...
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Tet Offensive (category Battles of the Vietnam War involving Australia)
at Khe Sanh and the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, where a French base had been besieged and ultimately overrun by Viet Minh forces under the command of General...
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VO-67 (category Observation squadrons of the United States Navy)
classified missions and for its intense aerial support of the Marines during the Battle of Khe Sanh. The Arleigh Burke class destroyer, USS Milius (DDG-69)...
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informed them of the whereabouts of the 304th Division. On 6 February 1968, the PAVN struck Lang Vei. Laotian Civil War Battle of Khe Sanh This article...
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the 1968 Battle of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. In early 1968 during the Vietnam War, a large force of the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam...
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1968 in the United States (redirect from 1968 in the United States of America)
at Khe Sanh Combat Base Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. This was the beginning of the Battle of Khe Sanh and the attack focused US command on Khe Sanh near...
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