Operation Maui Peak
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| Operation Maui Peak | |||||||
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| Part of the Vietnam War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States |
 North Vietnam | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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MG Carl A. Youngdale COL Herbert Beckington | |||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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1st Battalion, 1st Marines 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines |
2nd Division 21st Regiment 141st Regiment 368B Rocket Regiment | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 28 killed | US body count: 202 killed | ||||||
Operation Maui Peak was a US Marine Corps operation that took place near the Thường Ðức Camp southwest of Danang, during the Vietnam War. It lasted from 1 to 19 October 1968.
In late September 1968 1st Marine Division intelligence detected the presence of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 21st Regiment, 2nd Division, 141st Regiment and the 368B Rocket Regiment near the Thường Ðức Camp. In an early morning attack on 28 September the PAVN overran two of the Camp's outposts. As bad weather made tactical air support impossible a Marine tactical air control group flew into the camp with a radar beacon which was used to guide Marine A-6s to make precision bombing attacks on the PAVN positions forcing them to abandon them on 29 September.[1]: 418
The 7th Marine Regiment supported by the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines were tasked with relieving the siege around Thường Ðức.[1]: 419
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