Operation Coronado X

Operation Coronado X
Part of Tet Offensive, Vietnam War
Date 23 January–12 February 1968 Location Mỹ Tho and Vĩnh Long, South Vietnam Result Allied operational success
Belligerents
United States  South Vietnam	Viet Cong
Commanders and leaders
William B. Fulton George S. Eckhardt Burt A. David	Unknown
Units involved
3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment 4th Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment	261st Battalion 263rd Battalion 306th Battalion 308th Battalion 514th Battalion 857th Battalion 207th Sapper Company 530th District Company 540th District Company
Casualties and losses
12 killed	US body count: 269 killed

Operation Coronado X was the tenth of the Operation Coronado series of riverine military operations conducted by the U.S. Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) and units of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), originally planned as a sweep of western Dinh Tuong Province and eastern Kien Phong Province, however with the outbreak of the Tet Offensive on 31 January 1968 it instead became the MRF reaction to eject Vietcong (VC) forces from Mỹ Tho and Vĩnh Long. It ran from 23 January to 12 February 1968 and resulted in 269 VC killed for the loss of 12 U.S. killed.^[1]: 148