Operation Nantucket Beach

Operation Nantucket Beach
Part of the Vietnam War
Date23 July 1969 – 10 March 1971
Location
Batangan Peninsula, Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam
Result US operational success
Belligerents
 United States  North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Units involved
198th Light Infantry Brigade 2nd Division
Casualties and losses
51 killed US body count: 630 killed
38 captured
212 weapons recovered

Operation Nantucket Beach was a security operation during the Vietnam War conducted by the 198th Light Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division on the Batangan Peninsula from 23 July 1969 to 10 March 1971.

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