Word: battal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fading Away. Assigning top priority to making Saigon secure, the U.S. last month committed three combat battal ions to Operation Rang Dong, a long-range, large-scale drive that sent 2,500 U.S. troops against Viet Cong forces operating in the three provincial districts south and east of the city. Last week, to clear the Communists out of the area to Saigon's north, American forces launched the largest offensive of the war to date, sending 28 battalions and 34 batteries of artillery into the 25-sq.-mi. wedge known as the Iron Triangle, a notorious Communist strong hold...
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