Operation Manhattan

Operation Manhattan
Part of the Vietnam War

The 1st Infantry Division jungle clearing team moves into the woods to destroy a Viet Cong bunker complex northwest of Saigon.
Date23 April – 7 June 1967
Location
Ho Bo Woods/Bến Củi, South Vietnam
Result U.S. operational success
Belligerents
 United States
 South Vietnam		 Viet Cong
Commanders and leaders
MGen John C. F. Tillson
Units involved

4th Infantry Division

  • 3rd Brigade

25th Infantry Division

  • 1st Brigade
  • 2nd Brigade
Casualties and losses
US body count: 74 killed
99 estimated killed
19 captured
3 defected
201 individual and 18 crew-served weapons recovered

Operation Manhattan was an operation conducted by the 1st and 2nd Brigades, 25th Infantry Division and the 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in the Ho Bo Woods/Bến Củi area, lasting from 23 April to 7 June 1967.: 146 

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