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Operation Manhattan

Operation Manhattan
Part of 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
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.[1]: 146 

  1. ^ MacGarrigle, George (1998). Combat Operations: Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967. United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 9780160495403.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.