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Double Eagle - Operation Double Eagle took place in Vietnam in 1966. About 20,000 U.S. and allied soldiers launched two separate but coordinated drives
January 25th and 28th, 1966 against an estimated 8,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Quangngai and Binhdinh Provinces. Targets of the drive were the
18th and 98th North Vietnamese Regiments and the First and Second Viet Cong Regiments. Operation Double-Eagle was launched on January 28, 1966 when 4,000
U.S. Marines landed on the coast of the Ducpho district in Quangngai Province. The landing was the largest since the Inchon operation of the Korean War. The
fiercest fighting occurred January 28, 1966, when two companies of the First Cavalry troops were pinned down by heavy fire as they landed by helicopter near 35
Anthai, Binhdinh Province. The Americans suffered heavy losses, however, the operation resulted in the killing of 1,130 Communist troops by February 22, 1966.
Company F, 2/4 Marines pass through a punji-staked gulley during Operation Double Eagle.
US Defense Department photo (Marine Corps) A186718
| Tommy Trampp |
