Word: 320th
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Only eight miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, Dong Ha is the eastern anchor of the entire allied defense line facing North Viet Nam. Across the DMZ, in a swift three-day thrust, Hanoi sent its crack 320th Division to audaciously launch its first division-sized attack of the war. The Communist troops took up positions on the Cua Viet River two miles from Dong Ha, ambushed a U.S. Navy supply ship, and waited for the Marines to respond. They did at once, pouring in five companies to engage the North Vietnamese in the village...
...days of fighting, the Marines took the village, only to be driven back by a vicious Communist counterattack. Next day the Marines drove through Dai Do again-and again the North Vietnamese drove them back, supported by 130-mm. guns firing from North Viet Nam. But it was the 320th's last lunge. Under artillery and air strikes, it was forced to retreat northward, leaving 856 of its dead behind, as U.S. jets pursued and pounded its remnants. The Marines lost 68 dead, had 323 wounded seriously enough to require evacuation...