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x Tết Offensive Tết Offensive Jan 30, 1968 Sep 23, 1968 South Vietnam
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies. The...
x Vietnam War Vietnamese village after an attack Mar 1959 Apr 30, 1975 Southeast Asia
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported...
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x Battle of Nam Dong   Jul 6, 1964 Jul 6, 1964 Nam Dong CIDG Camp
The Battle of Nam Dong was fought on July 5 until the next day on in 1964, when the Viet Cong and PAVN attacked the Nam Dong CIDG camp in an attempt to overrun it. Nam Dong is situated 32 miles west of Da Nang in a valley near the Laotian border; it...
Nam Đông District
x Battle of Ap Bac Chopper wreck at Ap Bac Jan 2, 1963 Jan 2, 1963 Ap Bac
The Battle of Ap Bac was a major battle fought on January 3, 1963, during the Vietnam War. It was fought in Dinh Tuong Province (now part of Tiền Giang Province), South Vietnam. On December 28, 1962, U.S. intelligence detected the presence of a...
Tien Giang Province
x Battle of Hiep Hoa   Nov 22, 1963 Nov 23, 1963 Hiep Hoa
The Battle of Hiep Hoa was a minor battle of the Vietnam War. On the night of November 22, 1963, an estimated 500 FNL fighters overrun the Hiep Hoa Special Forces Camp, resulting in four American personnel MIA. South Vietnamese commando units and...
Hiep Hoa
South Vietnam
x Operation Barrell Roll Operation Barrell Roll Dec 14, 1964 Mar 29, 1973 Laos
Operation Barrel Roll was a covert U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division (later the Seventh Air Force) and U.S. Navy Task Force 77, interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos between 14 December 1964 and 29 March 1973...
x Battle of Kham Duc Kham Duc Evacuation during Vietnam War May 12th 1968 May 10, 1968 May 12, 1968 Kham Duc
The Battle of Kham Duc was a major battle of the Vietnam War, also known in Vietnam as the American War. The event occurred in Quang Tin Province (now part of Quang Nam), South Vietnam, between May 10 and May 12, 1968. During the Tet Offensive of...
Quang Nam Province
South Vietnam
x Battle of Ong Thanh Clark Welch Oct. 16 Oct 17, 1967   Ong Thanh
The Battle of Ong Thanh was fought on the morning of October 17, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam. During the first few months of 1967, the Viet Cong absorbed heavy losses as a result of large-scale search and destroy missions conducted...
Binh Duong Province
South Vietnam
x Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord   Jul 1, 1970 Jul 23, 1970 Fire Support Base Ripcord
The Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord was a 23 day battle between the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and the North Vietnamese Army from July 1, 1970 until July 23, 1970. It was the last major confrontation between United States ground forces...
South Vietnam
x The Battle of Hue Hue 3 Jan 30, 1968 Mar 3, 1968 Huế
The Battle of Hue during 1968 (also called the Siege of Hue), was one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the Vietnam War (1959–1975). The Army of the Republic of Vietnam and three understrength U.S. Marine Corps battalions attacked and defeated...
South Vietnam
x Battle of Dong Xoai DongXoaiHuey-65a Jun 10, 1965 Jun 11, 1965 Dong Xoai
The Battle of Dong Xoai (Vietnamese: Trận Đồng Xoài) was a major battle fought during the Communist Summer Offensive of 1965 as part of the Vietnam War. The battle took place in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, between June 9 and 13, 1965. In...
Phuoc Long province
x Battle of Hill 881 Hill 881 N and S from old airstrip Apr 1967 May 1967 Khe Sanh
The Battle of Hill 881 was a battle during the Vietnam War between the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, or in US sources "North Vietnamese Army" or NVA) and United States Marines. Conducted in the I Corps Tactical Zone it became known as "the Hill...
South Vietnam
x Battle of July Two   Jul 2, 1967 Jul 2, 1967 Quang Tri Province
The Battle of July Two was a short engagement of the Vietnam War that took place along Route 561 between Gia Binh and An Kha, during Operation Buffalo. Leading up to this battle, the North Vietnamese Army was reported to have moved back into the...
South Vietnam
x Battle of FSB Mary Ann   Mar 28, 1971 Mar 28, 1971 Fire Support Base Mary Ann
The Battle of FSB Mary Ann occurred when Viet Cong sappers attacked the U.S. firebase located in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam early on the morning of 28 March 1971. Fire support base Mary Ann was located to interdict movement of enemy troops...
x First Battle of Saigon DeadVietCong1968 Jan 30, 1968 Mar 7, 1968 Ho Chi Minh City
The First Battle of Saigon, fought during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War, was the coordinated attack by communist forces, including both the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong, against Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. In 1968 the...
South Vietnam
x Battle of Hamburger Hill Tquad May 10, 1969 May 20, 1969 Hill 937
The Battle of Hamburger Hill was a battle of the Vietnam War that was fought by the United States and South Vietnam against North Vietnamese forces from May 10–20, 1969. Although the heavily fortified Hill 937 was of little strategic value, U.S....
x Battle of Long Tan The site of the Battle of Long Tan in 2005 Aug 18, 1966 Aug 19, 1966 Long Tan
The Battle of Long Tân (18 August 1966) was fought between the Australian Army and Viet Cong forces in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tân, about 27 kilometres (17 mi) north east of Vũng Tàu, South Vietnam. The action occurred when D...
Phuoc Tuy province
South Vietnam
x Battle of Chan La   Nov 23, 1963 Nov 23, 1963 South Vietnam
The Battle of Cha La was a battle of the Vietnam War. The assault by Viet Cong forces was one in a series of attacks since the battle of Ap Bac back in January, in an attempt to recover momentum lost from the battle and its ensuing skirmishes. The...
x Battle of Lang Vei PT-76 monument Feb 6, 1968 Feb 7, 1968 Lang Vei
The Battle of Lang Vei began on the evening of February 6 and concluded during the early hours of February 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. Towards the end of 1967 the 198th Tank Battalion, Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) 203rd Armored...
Quang Tri Province
South Vietnam
x Battle of Song Be   May 10, 1965 May 16, 1965 Song Be
The Battle of Song Be was a major action between the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in May 1965. Planned as a major show of force against the ARVN forces, the NLF attempted...
South Vietnam
x Battle of An Lao   Dec 7, 1964 Dec 9, 1964 An Lao, Binh Dinh
The Battle of An Lao occurred after the Viet Cong captured the district headquarters of An Lao, Binh Dinh, about 300 miles from Saigon. Viet Cong rebels launched an early morning surprise attacks, attack squads scaling the fence and lobbing grenades...
South Vietnam
x Battle of Dak To Battle of Dak To Nov 3, 1967 Nov 22, 1967 Dak To  
x Battle of Xa Cam My   Apr 11, 1966 Apr 12, 1966 South Vietnam
The Battle of Xa Cam My was a battle of the Vietnam War fought over two days from April 11–12, 1966. Originally planned as a U.S. search and destroy mission intended to lure out the "crack" Viet Cong D800 Battalion, Charlie Company soon found itself...
Phuoc Tuy province
x Student Strike of 1970   May 1970    
In the aftermath of the American Invasion of Cambodia on April 30, 1970, four students were killed at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 in Ohio, as well as two students at Jackson State College in Mississippi on May 14/15. More than 450...
x Cambodian Incursion CamCit2 Apr 29, 1970 Jul 22, 1970 Cambodia
The Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during mid-1970 by the United States (U.S.) and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War. These...
x Operation Niagara Nalty1 Jan 1968 Mar 1968 South Vietnam
Operation Niagara was a U.S. Seventh Air Force close air support campaign carried out from January through March 1968, during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was to serve as an aerial umbrella for the defense of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Base on the...
Khe Sanh
x Gulf of Tonkin Incident Chart showing the US Navy’s interpretation of the events of the first part of the Gulf of Tonkin incident Aug 2, 1964 Aug 2, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, or the USS Maddox Incident, are the names given to two separate confrontations, one actual and one now recognized as non-existent, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On...
x Mayagüez incident SS Mayaguez May 12, 1975 May 15, 1975 Democratic Kampuchea
The Mayaguez incident between the Khmer Rouge and the United States from May 12–15, 1975, was the last official battle of the Vietnam War. The names of the Americans killed, as well as those of three Marines who were left behind on the island of Koh...
Koh Tang
x Operation Tailwind Special Forces Hatchet Force Tailwind Sep 11, 1970 Sep 13, 1970 Laos
Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion into southeastern Laos during the Vietnam War, conducted between 11–13 September 1970. The purpose of the operation was to create a diversion for a Royal Lao Army offensive and to exert pressure on the...
x Secret War   1962 1975 Kingdom of Laos
The Laotian Civil War (1953–75) was a fight between the Communist Pathet Lao, often North Vietnamese of Lao ancestry, and the Royal Lao Government in which both the political rightists and leftists received heavy external support for a proxy war...
x Operation Rolling Thunder Bombing in Vietnam Mar 2, 1965 Nov 1, 1968 North Vietnam
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ...
x Battle of Khe Sanh The Fight for Khe Sanh Jan 21, 1968 Jul 9, 1968 Khe Sanh
The Battle of Khe Sanh was conducted in northwestern Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), between 21 January and 9 July 1968 during the Vietnam War. The combatants were elements of the United States (U.S.) III Marine Amphibious...
South Vietnam
x Cambodian Civil War Cambodia sm04 1967 1975 Cambodia
The Cambodian Civil War was a conflict that pitted the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge) and their allies the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Viet Cong against the government forces of...
Khmer Republic
x Operation Ivory Coast SonTayPrisonCamp Nov 21, 1970 Nov 21, 1970 Son Tay prison camp
Operation Ivory Coast was a failed rescue mission conducted in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War by United States Special Operations Forces and other elements of the U.S. military. On November 21, 1970, a joint United States Air Force/United...
North Vietnam
x Operation Linebacker II /m/02cvksg Dec 18, 1972 Dec 29, 1972 North Vietnam
Operation Linebacker II was a US Seventh Air Force and US Navy Task Force 77 aerial bombing campaign, conducted against targets in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) during the final period of US involvement in the Vietnam War. The...
x Operation Commando Hunt Operation Commando Hunt Nov 1969 Mar 1972 Ho Chi Minh trail
Operation Commando Hunt was a covert U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign that took place during the Vietnam War. The operation began on 11 November 1968 and ended on 29 March 1972. The objective of the...
x Eastertide Offensive Eastertide Offensive Mar 30, 1972 Oct 22, 1972 South Vietnam
The Easter Offensive, and also (Chiến dịch Xuân hè 1972 in Vietnamese) was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN, the regular army of South Vietnam) and the United...
x Operation Starlite OperationStarlight Aug 17, 1965 Aug 24, 1965 Van Tuong
Operation Starlite was the first major offensive regimental size action conducted by a purely U.S. military unit during the Vietnam War. The operation was launched based on intelligence provided by Major General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the commander of...
x Operation Igloo White Operation Igloo White Jan 1968 Feb 1973 Laos
Operation Igloo White was a covert United States Air Force electronic warfare operation conducted from late January 1968 until February 1973, during the Vietnam War. This state-of-the-art operation utilized electronic sensors, computers, and...
x Battle of Ia Drang Ia Drang Infantry disembarking from Helicopter Nov 14, 1965 Nov 18, 1965 Ia Drang Valley
The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between regulars of the United States Army and regulars of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN / NVA) of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two-part battle took place between November 14 and...
South Vietnam
x Fall of Saigon   Apr 30, 1975 Apr 30, 1975 Ho Chi Minh City
The Fall of Saigon (or Liberation of Saigon) was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a...
South Vietnam
x Operation Linebacker /m/02f1x9z May 9, 1972 Oct 23, 1972 North Vietnam
Operation Linebacker was the title of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War. Its...
x Operation Hastings Operation Hastings Jul 7, 1966 Jul 25, 1966 Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone
Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. The operation was a qualified success in that it pushed the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces back across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As the NVA clearly did not feel...
x Operation Jefferson Glenn   Sep 5, 1970 Oct 6, 1971 South Vietnam
Operation Jefferson Glenn ran from September 5, 1970 to October 6, 1971 and was the last major operation in which U.S. ground forces participated in Vietnam. It was the final major offensive in which the 101st Airborne Division fought. This was a...
Thua Thien-Hue Province
x Operation Union   Apr 21, 1967 May 16, 1967 Que Son Valley
Operation Union was a military operation conducted by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. It was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 1st Marine Regiment. The object of the operation was the 2nd...
South Vietnam
x Operations Malheur I and Malheur II   May 11, 1967 Jul 1, 1967 South Vietnam
Operation Malheur I and Operation Malheur II were a series of search and destroy operations conducted by the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne Division operating as part of Task Force Oregon in Quang Ngai Province. Operation Malheur I began on May 11, 1967...
Quang Ngai Province
x Operation Junction City CFJC-map Feb 22, 1967 May 14, 1967 Tay Ninh Province
Operation Junction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) forces begun on 22 February 1967 during the Vietnam War. It was the largest U.S. airborne operation since Operation...
South Vietnam
x Operation Menu /m/02f1x9z Mar 18, 1969 May 28, 1970 Cambodia
Operation Menu was the codename of a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia and Laos from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970, during the Vietnam War. The supposed targets of these attacks were...
Laos
x Battle of Xuân Lộc HCM3 Apr 9, 1975 Apr 20, 1975 Xuân Lộc
The Battle of Xuan Loc (Vietnamese: Trận Xuân Lộc) was the last major battle of the Vietnam War. The battle was fought between April 9–21, 1975, and ended when the town of Xuan Loc was captured by the North Vietnamese 4th Army Corps. From the...
South Vietnam
x United States Air Force In South Vietnam Map Of Major USAF bases in South Vietnam 1961 1973 South Vietnam
What began as a military aid program by the United States in 1950 to assist the French in subduing communist rebels in French Indochina, became, by 1965 an all-out war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam in which the United States was deeply...
x United States Air Force In Thailand Usaf-thailand-map 1961 1975 Thailand
The United States Air Force deployed combat aircraft to Thailand from 1961 to 1975 during the Vietnam War. Today, USAF units train annually with other Asian Air Forces in Thailand. Royal Thai Air Force Bases are an important element in the Pentagon...
x Battle of the Iron Triangle   May 16, 1974 Nov 20, 1974 Rach Bap
The Battle of the Iron Triangle took place on May 16, 1974, when the 9th Division of the Vietnam People's Army backed by a small contingent of tanks launched an attack on Rach Bap, took possession of An Dien and pushed south towards Phu Cuong. The...
x Battle of Bình Gia   Dec 28, 1964 Jan 1, 1965 Bình Gia
The Battle of Bình Gia (Vietnamese: Trận Bình Giã), which was part of a larger communist campaign, was conducted by the Viet Cong from December 28, 1964, to January 1, 1965, during the Vietnam War in Bình Giã (Vietnamese: Bình Giã). The battle took...
Bình Giã
Phuoc Tuy province
South Vietnam
x Battle of Ba Gia Ba Gia Victory May 28, 1965 Jun 1, 1965 Ba Gia
The Battle of Ba Gia was a major battle that marked the beginning of the National Liberation Front's Summer Offensive of 1965, during the early phases of the Vietnam War, which is known in Vietnam as the American War. The battle took place in Quang...
Quảng Ngãi
x Operation Chenla II Areas of Cambodia under government control August 1970 Aug 20, 1971 Dec 3, 1971 Kampong Thom
Operation Chenla II was a major military operation conducted by the Cambodian military (then known as FANK) during the Cambodian Civil War. It began on August 20 and lasted until December 3, 1971. During the days of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's rule in...
x Battle of Prey Veng   Jun 15, 1970 Jun 15, 1970 Prey Veng
The Battle of Prey Veng was part of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam's (ARVN) campaign in Cambodia. It took place in Prey Veng on June 15, 1970, where ARVN and Cambodian troops battled the Vietnam People's Army and Vietcong forces. It ended with...
x Battle of Kompong Speu   Jun 12, 1970 Jun 16, 1970 Kampong Speu
The Battle of Kompong Speu began on June 12, 1970 when the combined forces of the South Vietnamese and Cambodian Armies fought to recapture the provincial capital of Kompong Speu. The town was captured by Communist forces on June 13 but was retaken...
x Ho Chi Minh Campaign South Vietnam Map Dec 13, 1974 Apr 30, 1975 South Vietnam
The 1975 Spring Offensive (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Mùa Xuân 1975) was a series of increasingly large-scale and ambitious offensive operations by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Front for the Liberation of South...
x Operation Attleboro US Infantry Deploy from UH-1D Vietnam Sep 14, 1966 Nov 24, 1966 Dau Tieng
Operation Attleboro was a search and destroy operation by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade. The operation was named after Attleboro, Massachusetts, where the brigade had been formed. Operation Attleboro turned out to be the largest series of air...
South Vietnam
x Operation Masher/White Wing   Jan 28, 1966 Mar 6, 1966 Kim Son
Operation Masher was a combined U.S., ARVN, and ROKA operation that began on January 28, 1966. The name "Operation Masher" was changed to "Operation White Wing", because the name was deemed too crude for 'nation-building'. The mission was a search...
An Lao, Binh Dinh
Kim Sơn
South Vietnam
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