Operation Quyet Chien

Operation Quyet Chien
Part of Vietnam War
Date3 August – 30 November 1968
Location
Mekong Delta, Ben Tre and Tien Giang Provinces, South Vietnam
Result American-South Vietnamese operational success
Belligerents
 United States
South Vietnam		 Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam Viet Cong
Commanders and leaders
MG Julian Ewell
Units involved
United States 9th Infantry Division
Mobile Riverine Force
South Vietnam 7th Division
Casualties and losses
United States 94 killed
10 missing		 US body count: 1,571 killed
1,005 suspects detained
289 individual and 101 crew-served weapons recovered

Operation Quyet Chien, was a United States Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) security operation during the Vietnam War that took place from 3 August to 31 November 1968.

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