Battle of Ban Me Thuot

When

3 Mar 1975 – 18 Mar 1975

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

12.68° N, 108.06° E

Description

1975 battle in the Vietnam War

Battle of the Vietnam War (1975)

The Battle of Ban Me Thuot was a decisive battle of the Vietnam War which led to the complete destruction of South Vietnam's II Corps Tactical Zone. The battle was part of a larger North Vietnamese military operation known as Campaign 275 to capture the Tay Nguyen region, known in the West as the Vietnamese Central Highlands.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ABC Radio producer Peter Whitlock who had been working in Thailand becomes trapped in the South Vietnamese city of Buôn Ma Thuột when it comes under heavy…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “attaque et prise de la ville de Ban Me Thuot par les Viêt-Cong”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Vietnam War1 Nov 1955 · Civil war · Deaths 3,000,000