Operation Junction City

Operation Junction City
	Part of the Vietnam War
	; Cedar Falls/Junction City area of operations
Date	22 February – 14 May 1967 ; (2 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location	War Zone C, Tây Ninh Province, South Vietnam
Result	Inconclusive
Belligerents
United States	Viet Cong; North Vietnam
Commanders and leaders
Jonathan Seaman; Bruce Palmer Jr.	Lê Trọng Tấn (millitary); Trần Độ (political); Hoàng Cầm
Units involved
1st Infantry Division; 25th Infantry Division; 173rd Airborne Brigade; 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment; 1st Brigade, 9th Infantry Division	9th Infantry Division 271st Regiment; 272nd Regiment; 273rd Regiment; 70th Guard Regiment ; 101st Infantry Regiment
Strength
30,000	~15,000
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; 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 deserters; 491 individual and 100 crew-served weapons recovered; PAVN report:; 255 killed out of 1,275 total casualties

Operation Junction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States (US) and South Vietnam forces against Viet Cong (VC) forces begun on 22 February 1967 during the Vietnam War. It was the first US combat airborne operation since the Korean War and one of the largest Airmobile operations of the war.