Operation Attleboro

Operation Attleboro
Part of the Vietnam War
Infantrymen attacking out of a Huey during Attleboro.
Date 14 September – 25 November 1966 Location Northwest of Dau Tieng, South Vietnam (now in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam) Result See Aftermath
Belligerents
United States  South Vietnam Philippines	Viet Cong North Vietnam
Commanders and leaders
Edward H. de Saussure William E. DePuy	Hoàng Cầm
Units involved
196th Light Infantry Brigade 1st Infantry Division 4th Infantry Division 25th Infantry Division	9th Division 101st Regiment
Casualties and losses
155 killed 5 missing	US body count: 1,016 killed 200+ missing or captured ~127 individual and 19 crew-served weapons recovered[1]

Operation Attleboro was a Vietnam War search and destroy operation initiated by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade with the objective to discover the location(s) of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) base areas and force them to fight. The operation was named after Attleboro, Massachusetts, where the brigade had been formed. Operation Attleboro grew to be the largest series of air mobile operations to that time, involving all or elements of the 196th Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, 1st Infantry Division and a brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, as well as numerous Army of the Republic of Vietnam and Regional Forces/Popular Forces and Nùngs. In the end, the operation became a Corps operation commanded by II Field Force, Vietnam.