Operation Lamar Plain | |||||||
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Part of the Vietnam War | |||||||
Company B, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry soldier shelters behind a stone wall | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States |
North Vietnam Viet Cong | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division | 2nd Division | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
116 killed 1 missing |
US body count: 524 killed 21 captured 256 individual and 62 crew-served weapons recovered |
Operation Lamar Plain was a security operation during the Vietnam War in Quảng Tín Province, that took place from 15 May to 14 August 1969.