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Three days later, a security force guarding the Hoc Mon Bridge, a vital link between Hoc Mon and points north along Highway 1, discovered a Viet Cong demolition team swimming towards the bridge. The American and Vietnamese force opened fire, driving off the enemy.
12 cze 2010 · Operation Quyet Thang (25th Infantry Division), Hoc Mon, South Vietnam - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon - National Archives and Records Administration 1968 - ARC Identifier 31886 / Local...
27 mar 2015 · During TET 68 the battalion moved at the beginning of February from the Dau Tieng Area of Operations to fight near Cu Chi and at Hoc Mon. After Tet the battalion took over security of Tay Ninh Base Camp, and finally found a new new home north of Trang Bang at Fire Support Base Pershing.
The story that had become known as the Hoc Mon 500 was racing through the Squadron from man to man like wildfire. It seems that Johnny Johnson, a man of no small appetites, had cranked up a new tank in the motor pool back at Cu Chi and tried to bring it out to where we were loggered south of Tan Son Nhut.
Quiet villages like Tan Phu Trung and Hoc Mon were suddenly known by many. During the first 15 days following the start of the Tet offensive, the Cav and the Wolfhounds defended the Saigon, Tan Son Nhut and Hoc Mon areas.
On March 2, 1968, after an ambush at Hoc Mon Bridge, we had 50 KIAs come into Cu Chi. Other large batches came on chinooks. None of these would surpass the results of the ten-day battle of Hamburger Hill in May 1969: 72 KIA. Years after Vietnam, I worked with another Team Leader at the VA Vets Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Operation Quyet Thang (transl. "Resolved to win"), was a United States Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) security operation to reestablish South Vietnamese control over the areas immediately around Saigon in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive. The operation started on 11 March 1968 and ended on 7 April 1968.
