Operation Sure Win 202 | |||||||
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Part of Vietnam War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
South Vietnam United States |
PLAF | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Do Cao Tri | Nguyen Don | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
5,000 | 1,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
23 killed 87 wounded |
62 killed 17 captured |
Operation Sure Win 202 (Vietnamese : Chiến dịch Quyết Thắng 202) was a 1964 Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) operation carried out with US support. ARVN commandos were transported by U.S. helicopters behind entrenched Viet Cong positions, attacking them with shoulder fired rockets and flame throwers. Sniper teams then tracked the fleeing rebels and engaged them.
The one-month-long operation ended with heavy damage to the Viet Cong communications line that linked Do Xa with other Viet Cong controlled provinces, and forced a critical regrouping of the estimated nine hundred remaining Viet Cong fighters there.