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JUNE 22

                On June 22, A Company from 3rd Battalion, made contact with and was soon surrounded by a North Vietnamese Army Battalion. On a nearby ridge overlooking the Brigade Base Camp, two more Companies of Paratroopers were lifted into the area and began hacking their way through the mountainous terrain toward Alpha Company. Their movement became bogged down by heavy enemy sniper fire.

  Although greatly outnumbered by the wel trained North Vietnamese regulars, the men of Alpha Company fought valiantly. The communists threw several human wave assaults at the Sky Soldier perimeter. The battle raged for seven hours. Although A Company itself suffered heavy casualties, its Paratroopers dealt a crippling blow to the North Vietnamese Battalion. General William C. Westmoreland, Allied Commander, later told the Sky Soldiers at Dak To that their efforts prevented the North Vietnamese from overrunning the Special Forces camp there.

          He saluted the 173rd as one of the finest units in the history of the American fighting man.
  After completing a successful operation aimed at protecting the Vietnamese rice harvest west of Tuy Hoa during September and October, the Brigade once again deployed to Dak To, to join the 4th Infantry Division in Operation McArthur. During the ensuing battle for Dak To, the Sky Soldiers fought during their finest hour.

           The 173 rd Airborne Infantrymen made repeated heavy contact with large forces of North Vietnamese over a bitterly fought 20 day period.

SKY SOLDIERS KILL 51

 NVA

             Tuy Hoa - Operation Bolling, nearing 4 months has accounted for 238 enemy killed in the Phuyen Province. The 173d Airborne Brigade made its largest major contact Wednesday when an element of the 3d Battalion, 503d Infantry made a Heli-borne Assault on a 'Hot' landing zone.

              During the bitter fighting, Sky Soldiers reported uncovering 51 communist bodies and capturing 18 small arms. The Airborne Infantrymen suffered 12 KIA's and 34 WIA during the battle that raged most of the afternoon.

  A suspected NVA build-up was reported 35 miles north-northwest of Phu Hiep, D Company was lifted into the vicinity and began clearing the area in a northerly direction when it came under small arms fire from three directions. Air strikes and artillery were called in and small arms fire was returned.

            Shortly after, A Company was lifted into the area. The assault was preceded by air strikes and artillery barrages, but when A Company reached the landing zone they were hit from three sides. Communist soldiers shot down the last helicopter load of Paratroopers. The chopper went up into flames as the Paratroopers and crew fled the burning ships. One Door Gunner was seriously injured.

               As fire increased from all four sides of the landing zone, air strikes and artillery hammered the enemy estimated to be at Company size. The enemy broke contact late in the afternoon.

  Thursday and Friday Paratroopers continued to sweep the area for the enemy and more possible NVA bodies.

  Chu Hoa