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Operation Yellowstone (Vietnam)

Operation Yellowstone
Part of Vietnam War

M113s from Company "A", 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry (Mechanized), 18 January 1968
Date8 December 1967 - 24 February 1968
Location
Result U.S. operational success
Belligerents
 United States Vietnam North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Commanders and leaders
Fillmore K. Mearns
Units involved

25th Infantry Division

  • 1st Brigade
  • 3rd Brigade
7th Division
9th Division
Casualties and losses
81 killed U.S. body count: 1,254 killed
146 individual and 68 crew-served weapons recovered

Operation Yellowstone was an operation conducted by the 1st and 3rd Brigades, 25th Infantry Division in northeast Tây Ninh Province, lasting from 8 December 1967 to 24 February 1968.[1]: 27 

  1. ^ Trass, Adrian (2017). The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Vietnam War: Turning Point 1967-1968 (PDF). United States Army Center of Military History.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.