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Battle of Hamburger Hill

10 mai 1969 – 20 mai 1969 · 16.25° N, 107.17° E

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10 mai 1969 – 20 mai 1969
Type
Bataille
Coordonnées
16.25° N, 107.17° E
Description
symbolic Vietnam War battle, May 1969

Battle of Hamburger Hill

Part of the Vietnam War (1969)

The Battle of Hamburger Hill was fought by United States Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces against People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces during Operation Apache Snow of the Vietnam War. Though the heavily fortified Hill 937, a ridge of the mountain Dong Ap Bia in central Vietnam near its western border with Laos, had little strategic value, US command ordered its capture by a frontal assault, on…

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