Operation Manhattan | |||||||
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Part of Vietnam War | |||||||
The 1st Infantry Division jungle clearing team moves into the woods to destroy a Viet Cong bunker complex northwest of Saigon. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States South Vietnam | Viet Cong | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
MGen John C. F. Tillson | |||||||
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
US body count: 74 killed 99 estimated killed 19 captured 3 defected 201 individual and 18 crew-served weapons recovered |
Operation Manhattan was an operation conducted by the 1st and 2nd Brigades, 25th Infantry Division and the 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in the Ho Bo Woods/Bến Củi area, lasting from 23 April to 7 June 1967.[1]: 146