Operation Lamar Plain

Operation Lamar Plain
Part of the Vietnam War

Company B, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry soldier shelters behind a stone wall
Date15 May – 14 August 1969
Location
Result US operational success
Belligerents
 United States  North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Units involved
1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division 2nd Division
Casualties and losses
116 killed
1 missing
US body count: 524 killed
21 captured
256 individual and 62 crew-served weapons recovered

Operation Lamar Plain was a security operation during the Vietnam War in Quảng Tín Province, that took place from 15 May to 14 August 1969.