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| Operation Dragon Fire | |||||||
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| Part of Vietnam War | |||||||
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Operation_Dragon_Fire_-_October_18,_1967_-_DPLA_-_3205fa40658444cbd570aac523ec7a53_(cropped).jpg) VMO-6 UH-1E gunship and two HMM-263 UH-34Ds support 2nd Marine Brigade forces, 18 October 1967 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 South Korea |
 Viet Cong | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| BG Kim Yun-sang |
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| Units involved | |||||||
| 2nd Marine Brigade | 48th Battalion | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 46 killed |
ROK body count: 412 killed 59 weapons recovered[1] | ||||||
Operation Dragon Fire was an operation conducted by the South Korean 2nd Marine Brigade on the Batangan Peninsula, Quảng Ngãi Province, lasting from 5 September to 31 October 1967.[2]: 282 The event and much of Korean Marines activities in the region was described as part of a wide-scale depopulation of the region.[1]: 43
- ^ a b Kwon, Heonik (10 November 2006). After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520939653.
- ^ MacGarrigle, George (1998). Combat Operations: Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967. United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 9780160495403.
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