Operation Hastings

Operation Hastings
Part of the Vietnam War

Marines of Company H, 2/4th Marines take to the water as they move to join up with other elements of their battalion
DateJuly 15 – August 3, 1966 (1966-07-15 – 1966-08-03)
Location
Result South Vietnamese and U.S. victory
Belligerents
 United States
 South Vietnam
 North Vietnam
Commanders and leaders
United States Lewis W. Walt
United States Wood B. Kyle
United States Lowell English
South Vietnam Ngo Quang Truong
North Vietnam Chu Phương Đới
Units involved
North Vietnam 324-B Division
Strength
  • 8,000
  • 3,000
8,000 to 10,000
Casualties and losses
  • 126 killed
  • 21 killed
  • ~700 killed
  • 17 captured[1]
: 176 

Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. The operation was a qualified success in that it pushed the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces back across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As the PAVN clearly did not feel constrained by the "demilitarized" nature of the DMZ, U.S. military leadership ordered a steady build-up of U.S. Marines near the DMZ from 1966 to 1968.

  1. ^ Shulimson, Jack (1982). U.S. Marines in Vietnam: An Expanding War, 1966 (Marine Corps Vietnam Operational Historical Series). Marine Corps Association. ASIN B000L34A0C.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.