Word: 173rd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decided that only massive American intervention could prevent disaster. Out went orders to all available military planes: start hauling men and gear to Pleiku from Bien Hoa airbase, 18 miles northeast of Saigon. In a matter of hours, troops of the U.S.'s 1st Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were climbing aboard their planes. Throughout the night and into the day, the big C-123s and C-130s lumbered into Pleiku, disgorging men and machines, Jeeps, trucks, cannon, ammo and supplies. Then off the planes winged to Bien Hoa for another load. By next evening, a full...
...bloody battle of Dongxoai. The toll: more than 700 government troops and 150 civilians dead v. an estimated 700 Viet Cong. But Saigon's new military leaders seemed ready and willing to keep up the grim ground battle. To buttress their fighting force, 600 U.S. paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade were now holding a vital flank of Route 14, at the same time guarding the airstrip at Phuocvinh, a few miles from Bencat and Dongxoai...
...American commitment, South Viet Nam is still a long way from being a Korea. U.S. forces ashore in Viet Nam total just 53,500. Only 13,000 U.S. troops are actually part of organized combat components-including 9,500 Marines and 3,500 men of the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade. At the peak of the fighting in Korea, U.S. combat forces totaled a quarter of a million...