Operation Junction City

Operation Junction City
Part of the Vietnam War

Cedar Falls/Junction City area of operations
Date22 February – 14 May 1967
Location
War Zone C, Tây Ninh Province, South Vietnam
Result Inconclusive[1][2][3]
Belligerents
 United States Viet Cong
Vietnam North Vietnam
Commanders and leaders
Jonathan Seaman
Bruce Palmer Jr.		 Hoàng Văn Thái
Lê Đức Anh
Units involved
1st Infantry Division
25th Infantry Division
173rd Airborne Brigade
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
1st Brigade, 9th Infantry Division

9th Division

Strength
30,000[4] ~15,000[5]
Casualties and losses
US report:
282 killed
1,576 wounded
24 tanks and armored vehicles destroyed
12 trucks destroyed
4 helicopters destroyed
5 howitzers destroyed[6]
PAVN claim:
13,500 killed or wounded
800 armored vehicles and truck destroyed or damaged
119 howitzers and mortars destroyed or damaged		 US claim:
2,728 killed
34 captured
139 deserted
491 individual and 100 crew-served weapons recovered[6]: 150–1 
PAVN report:
255 killed
1,275 wounded, captured or deserted[5]

Operation Junction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) forces begun on 22 February 1967 during the Vietnam War. It was the first U.S. combat airborne operation since the Korean War and one of the largest Airmobile operations of the war.[7]

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  2. ^ Hess, Gary R. (1998). Vietnam and the United States: Origins and Legacy of War: Volume 7 of Twayne's international history series. Twayne Publishers. p. 96. ISBN 9780805716764.
  3. ^ Turley, William S. (2008). The Second Indochina War: A Concise Political and Military History. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 114. ISBN 9780742557451.
  4. ^ "Battlefield:Vietnam | Timeline". www.pbs.org.
  5. ^ a b "Bảo đảm Hậu cần chiến dịch Bắc Tây Ninh đánh bại cuộc hành quân Gian- Xơn–Xi– ty của Mỹ - Ngụy". Quân đội nhân dân. 19 April 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  6. ^ a b Rogers, Bernard (1974). Vietnam Studies Cedar Falls-Junction City A Turning Point. Department of the Army. ISBN 978-1931641890.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.: 151 
  7. ^ Whitney, Catherine (2009). Soldiers Once: My Brother and the Lost Dreams of America's Veterans. Da Capo Press. pp. 53–54.