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03031aam a2200337 i 4500 001 0889D998C48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230317010022 008 200818t20212021enkab b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1913336263 020 $a 9781913336264 035 $a (OCoLC)1222806473 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NLMVD $d ALM $d OCLCO $d CLU $d SILO 050 4 $a DS558.8 $b .V45 2021 082 04 $a 959.704348 $2 23 100 1 $a Velicogna, Arrigo, $e author. 245 10 $a Into the iron triangle : $b Operation Attleboro and the battles north of Saigon, 1966 / $c Arrigo Velicogna. 264 1 $a Warwick : $b Helion & Company, $c 2021. 300 $a 80 pages : $b illustrations (black and white, and color), maps (color) ; $c 30 cm. 490 1 $a Asia@war ; $v no. 19 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "In early October 1966, the fresh and inexperienced 196th Light Infantry Brigade of the US Army was conducting a series of routine patrols in War Zone C. A lucky discovery of a rice cache led to the uncovering of a planned base area being established by the Viet Cong insurgents of South Vietnam (the National Liberation Front, or NLF) southeast of Tay Ninh City. What followed was named Operation Attleboro.Unbeknownst to the US and ARVN forces the NLF's 9th Division was preparing to attack the brigade in its base, along with two ARVN positions near Tay Ninh. American moves spoiled the planned attack and initiated a prolonged battle that at its height would pit four regiments of the NLF and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against 18 American and three ARVN battalions, supported by 24 artillery batteries and countless fixed wing and helicopter sorties, including 225 B-52 strikes. The battle would also draw in the 1st Infantry Division - the famed 'Big Red One' - and the 25th Infantry Division. Both sides would claim victory, but the 9th Division would limp away towards Cambodia.Attleboro was the largest American operation in the Vietnam War up to that date, the culmination of a year of bloody battles between the 9th Division and II Field Force Vietnam and would be a test for the campaign that US General William Westmoreland had planned for 1967. It would also be a test of the different tactical approaches to be used in Vietnam: an 'infantry-heavy' approach favoured by the commander of the 196th, General Edward H. De Saussure, and for the firepower-intensive approach championed by the Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division, General William DePuy." 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 0 $a Operation Attleboro, 1966. 650 6 $a Guerre du Viet-nam, 1961-1975 $x Operations aeriennes americaines. 650 7 $a Military operations, Aerial $x American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710199 648 7 $a 1961-1975 $2 fast 830 0 $a Asia@War ; $v v. 19. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013057.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0889D998C48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search