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Operation Muscatine
Part of the Vietnam War
Date 18 December 1967 – 10 June 1968 Location Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam Result US claims operational success
Belligerents
United States	Viet Cong
Strength
3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division 196th Infantry Brigade 198th Infantry Brigade 11th Infantry Brigade
Casualties and losses
killed	US body count: killed

Operation Muscatine was a security operation conducted during the Vietnam War by the US Army in Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam from 18 December 1967 to 10 June 1968.

Background

Operation Muscatine was a security mission to protect Chu Lai and the neighboring lowlands from several Viet Cong (VC) battalions, and to search for their camps in the hills that ran along the Quảng Tín–Quảng Ngãi border.

Operation

The 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division joined with the 196th Infantry Brigade to conduct the operation. The 196th Infantry Brigade moved north into the Quế Sơn Valley to join Operation Wheeler and was replaced by the 198th Infantry Brigade, which in turn handed over the operation to the newly arrived 11th Infantry Brigade.

By January 1968 the 198th Infantry Brigade continued the operation in Đức Phổ District with the 1st Battalion, 52nd Infantry Regiment, and elements of the 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. US soldiers suffered a steady stream of casualties from VC booby traps and mines, but rarely encountered the VC. Most of the mines came from bases abandoned by the South Koreans who had departed the area without clearing their minefields.

Aftermath

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Army Center of Military History.

1. ^ Villard, Erik (2017). United States Army in Vietnam Combat Operations Staying the Course October 1967 to September 1968. Center of Military History United States Army. ISBN 9780160942808. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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