Operation Yellowstone | |||||||
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Part of Vietnam War | |||||||
M113s from Company "A", 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry (Mechanized), 18 January 1968 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States |
North Vietnam Viet Cong | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Fillmore K. Mearns |
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Units involved | |||||||
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7th Division 9th Division | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
81 killed |
U.S. body count: 1,254 killed 146 individual and 68 crew-served weapons recovered |
Operation Yellowstone was an operation conducted by the 1st and 3rd Brigades, 25th Infantry Division in northeast Tây Ninh Province, lasting from 8 December 1967 to 24 February 1968.[1]: 27