Operation Deckhouse Five

Operation Deckhouse V
Part of Vietnam War

Two USMC amtracs move along a beach, with a UH-1 helicopter approaching at right. USS Washtenaw County is in the background.
Date6–15 January 1967
Location
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
 United States
 South Vietnam
Viet Cong
Commanders and leaders
United States BG Louis Metzger
Units involved
1st Battalion 9th Marines
South Vietnam 3rd and 4th Marine Battalions
Unknown
Casualties and losses
United States 7 killed
South Vietnam 1 killed
21 killed
44 weapons recovered

Operation Deckhouse Five was a United States Marine Corps (USMC) and Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps operation that took place from 6–15 January 1967 in the Mekong Delta, during the Vietnam War. "The ten-day sweep," reported the AP from its daily military roundup from Saigon, "proved unproductive."