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Operation Coronado IV | |||||||
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Part of Operation Coronado, Vietnam War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States | Viet Cong | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
MG George G. O'Connor | Unknown | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Mobile Riverine Force 3rd and 4th Battalions, 47th Infantry Regiment | 506th Local Force Battalion | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown |
US body count: 59 killed 97 individual and 8 crew-served weapons recovered |
Operation Coronado IV was the fourth of the Operation Coronado series of riverine military operations conducted by the U.S. Mobile Riverine Force (MRF), designed to shut down Viet Cong (VC) strongholds in the Mekong Delta.[1]: 50 It ran from 19 August to 9 September 1967. It took place in Long An, Gò Công and Kiến Hòa Provinces (now Long An, Tien Giang and Bến Tre Provinces).[1]: 125