Battle of Ap Bac

When

2 Jan 1963

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

10.44° N, 106.20° E

Description

1963 battle of the Vietnam War

1963 battle of the Vietnam War

The Battle of Ấp Bắc was a major battle fought on 2 January 1963 during the Vietnam War in Định Tường Province, South Vietnam. On 28 December 1962, US intelligence detected the presence of a radio transmitter along with a sizable force of Viet Cong (VC) soldiers, reported to number around 120, in the hamlet of Tân Thới in Định Tường Province, home of the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam (ARVN) 7th Infantry Divis…

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “guerre du Viêt Nam : bataille d’Ap Bac”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Война во Вьетнаме: первое открытое сражение партизан Вьетконга с южновьетнамской армией”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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