Operation Attleboro, 1966
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- Work cat.: Operation Attleboro (25th Infantry Division) ... Nov. 17-18, 1966.
- Dictionary of the Vietnam War, 1988(Operation Attleboro, conducted in War Zone C between September 14 and November 24, 1966, was the first field test of the army's doctrine of search and destroy. Initiated by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade; objective of discovering the location(s) of the Vietcong, or North Vietnamese base areas)
Operation Attleboro was a Vietnam War search and destroy operation initiated by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade with the objective to discover the location(s) of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) base areas and force them to fight. The operation was named after Attleboro, Massachusetts, where the brigade had been formed. Operation Attleboro grew to be the largest series of air mobile operations to that time, involving all or elements of the 196th Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, 1st Infantry Division and a brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, as well as numerous Army of the Republic of Vietnam and Regional Forces/Popular Forces and Nùngs. In the end, the operation became a Corps operation commanded by II Field Force, Vietnam.
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