| Battle of Ap Bau Bang | |||||||
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| Part of Vietnam War | |||||||
 Battle of Ap Bau Bang, 12 November 1965 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States |
 Viet Cong | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Lt. Col. George Shuffer | Senior Col. Hoàng Cầm | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment Troop A 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 33rd Artillery Regiment |
272nd Regiment 273rd Regiment | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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20 killed VC claim: 2,000 killed or wounded 39 tanks and 8 artillery pieces destroyed |
U.S. body count: 146 killed 50 presumed killed VC claim: 109 killed | ||||||
The Battle of Ap Bau Bang (Vietnamese: trận Bàu Bàng) took place on the morning of 12 November 1965 when two regiments from the Viet Cong (VC) 9th Division attacked a night defensive position of the United States 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment (2/2nd Infantry) at a small village (ấp) of Bàu Bàng, in today's Bàu Bàng district, 25 km north of Thủ Dầu Một.