Battle of Nam Dong
Captain Roger HC Donlon (right next to Johnson ) is the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War awarded
| date | July 6, 1964 |
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| place | Nam Dong , Republic of Vietnam |
| output | Attack repelled with heavy losses |
| Parties to the conflict | |
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| Commander | |
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unknown |
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| Troop strength | |
| 461 soldiers | about 1,000 soldiers |
| losses | |
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62 dead found |
Vietnam War
Battle of Tua Hai (1960) - Battle of Ap Bac (1963) - Battle of Nam Dong (1964) - Tonkin Incident (1964) - Operation Flaming Dart (1965) - Operation Rolling Thunder (1965-68) - Battle of Dong Xoai (1965) - Battle of the Ia Drang Valley (1965) - Operation Crimp (1966) - Operation Hastings (1966) - Battle of Long Tan (1966) - Operation Attleboro (1966) - Operation Cedar Falls (1967) - Battle around Hill 881 (1967) - Battle of Dak To (1967) - Battle of Khe Sanh (1968) - Tet Offensive (1968) - Battle of Huế (1968) - Operation Speedy Express (1968/69) - Operation Dewey Canyon ( 1969) - Battle of Hamburger Hill (1969) - Operation MENU (1969/70) - Operation Lam Son 719 (1971) - Battle of FSB Mary Ann (1971) - Battle of Quảng Trị (1972) - Operation Linebacker (1972) - Operation Linebacker II (1972) - Battle of Xuan Loc (1975) - Operation Frequent Wind (1975)
The Battle of Nam Dong was a night attack by the National Liberation Front on a US Army Special Forces field base during the 1964 Vietnam War .
The battle
On the night of July 6, 1964, two battalions of the People's Liberation Army attacked a camp in the central highlands near the town of Nam Dong . In a battle that lasted all night, the defenders, consisting of the ODA-726 ( Operational Detachment , German platoon ), South Vietnamese armed forces and an Australian military adviser , managed to hold the base against the numerically superior enemy with heavy losses. The commander, Captain Roger HC Donlon , was then personally awarded the first Medal of Honor to be awarded in the war by President Lyndon B. Johnson . The Nam Dong Special Forces Camp was reduced to rubble and ashes by mortar fire and a subsequent fire.
In the media
The battle was the template for the movie " The Green Berets ".
literature
- Tom Clancy , John Gresham: Special Forces - The special forces of the US Army. Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-86912-5
- Terrence Maitland: The Vietnam Experience: Raising the Stakes. Boston Publishing Company, Boston 1982