Phou Khai Kham | |||||||
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Part of Laotian Civil War; Vietnam War | |||||||
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Units involved | |||||||
Bataillon Commando 206 Bataillon Infanterie 6 Commando Raiders 21st Special Operations Squadron Royal Lao Air Force U.S. Air Force A-1 Skyraiders | At least one battalion | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown | Unknown |
Phou Khao Kham (Gold Mountain), (5 August – 25 September 1971) was a Royal Lao Government military offensive operation of the Laotian Civil War designed to clear Communist forces off Routes 13 and 7 north of the administrative capital of Vientiane. Its end objective was the capture of the forward fighter base at Muang Soui on the Plain of Jars. Although it succeeded in taking the air base, it failed to remove a concentration of Communist troops at the Sala Phou Khoun intersection of Routes 7 and 13.
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