Operation Masher

Operation Masher/White Wing
Part of the Vietnam War
Date January 24 – March 6, 1966 Location Bồng Sơn Plain, Kim Sơn Valley, An Lão Valley, Bình Định Province, South Vietnam Result Allied victory
Belligerents
United States South Vietnam Republic of Korea	North Vietnam Viet Cong
Commanders and leaders
Maj. General Harry Kinnard Col. Hal Moore	Giap Van Cuong
Strength
1st Cavalry Division: 5,700 22nd Division: ~10,000 Capital Mechanized Infantry Division	3rd Division: ~6,000
Casualties and losses
288 killed and 990 wounded 10 KIA, 40 WIA Unknown 14 aircraft shot down, 241 aircraft damaged.	US reported 2,150 killed by American, South Vietnamese, and Korean forces.

1st Cavalry Division: 5,700
22nd Division: ~10,000
Capital Mechanized Infantry Division

Operation Masher (24 January—6 March 1966) was in early 1966 the largest search and destroy mission that had been carried out in the Vietnam War up until that time. It was a combined mission of the United States Army, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), and Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) in Binh Dinh province on the central coast of South Vietnam. The 3rd Division of the communist North Vietnamese Army, made up of two regiments of North Vietnamese regulars and one regiment of main force Viet Cong guerrillas, controlled much of the land and many of people of Binh Dinh province which had a total population of about 800,000. A CIA report in 1965 said that Binh Dinh was "just about lost" to the communists.

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