Operation Harvest Moon | |||||||
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Part of Vietnam War | |||||||
![]() 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines move across paddy dikes during Operation Harvest Moon | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
![]() BG Melvin D. Henderson BG Jonas M. Platt ![]() BG Hoàng Xuân Lãm | Unknown | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
![]() 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines ![]() 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment 11th Ranger Battalion | 1st Regiment | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
![]() 91 missing ![]() |
US/ARVN body count: 407 killed 33 captured |
Operation Harvest Moon/Lien Ket 18 was a US Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam search and destroy operation in the Quế Sơn Valley in western Quảng Tín Province, lasting from 8 to 20 December 1965.
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