Operation Bolling
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| Operation Bolling | |||||
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| Part of the Vietnam War | |||||
 A CH-47 lands a 105mm howitzer 20km northwest of Tuy Hoa, 19 September 1967 | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
 United States |
 North Vietnam | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| BG Leo H. Schweiter | |||||
| Units involved | |||||
| 503rd Infantry Regiment | 95th Regiment | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
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67 killed 1 helicopter destroyed |
Per US body count 693 killed 59 captured 247 weapons recovered | ||||
| 20,000 civilians displaced | |||||
Operation Bolling was a search and destroy and security operation conducted during the Vietnam War by the U.S. 503rd Infantry Regiment in Phú Yên Province, South Vietnam from 19 September 1967 to 31 January 1969.
Following the completion of Operation Greeley, in September 1967 General William B. Rosson instructed the commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, Brigadier General Leo H. Schweiter, to locate and destroy the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 95th Regiment, which was believed to be located in a base area known as “The Hub” in the foothills northwest of Tuy Hòa in Phú Yên Province. When the Battle of Dak To intensified in early November, the 173rd Airborne Brigade was called back to the Đắk Tô area and responsibility for the operation fell to the newly arrived 3rd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment.[1]: 205
