Operation Fairfax

Operation Fairfax
Part of Vietnam War

Company "A", 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry with VC suspects, 7 May 1967
DateNovember 1966 – 15 December 1967
Location
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
 United States
 South Vietnam
Viet Cong
Commanders and leaders
United States BG Charles Wolcott Ryder Jr.
United States BG John F. Freund
United States BG Robert C. Forbes
South Vietnam Gen Lê Nguyên Khang

Units involved
United States 199th Infantry Brigade
South Vietnam 5th Ranger Group
165A Regiment
Casualties and losses
US body count: 1200 killed or captured

Operation Fairfax was a joint counterinsurgency/pacification operation conducted by the II Field Force, Vietnam and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in Gia Định Province, near Saigon lasting from November 1966 to 15 December 1967.[1]

  1. ^ MacGarrigle, George (1998). Combat Operations: Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967. Government Printing Office. pp. 155–6. ISBN 9780160495403.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.