Battle of Ong Thanh
Part of the Vietnam War
Date October 17, 1967 Location 11°21′40.2″N 106°30′57.7″E / 11.361167, 106.516028 (Battle of Ong Thanh)Coordinates: 11°21′40.2″N 106°30′57.7″E / 11.361167, 106.516028 (Battle of Ong Thanh) Ong Thanh, South Vietnam Result Viet Cong Victory
Belligerents
United States	National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
Commanders
Terry de la Mesa Allen, Jr. †	Vo Minh Triet
Strength
142	1,400+
Casualties and losses
58 KIA, 2 MIA, 75 WIA	163 killed and wounded

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During this little known battle, the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, the "Black Lion Battalion", were ambushed and subsequently destroyed by a well-entrenched and prepared National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NFL) regiment outnumbering the Americans almost 10-to-1. Symbol of the Austrian 14th Armoured Battalion in NATO military graphic symbols This article is about the military unit. ... The 28th Infantry Regiment (United States) was first established on January 29, 1813 and fought in the War of 1812. ... Viet Cong redirects here. ... British regiment A regiment is a military unit, consisting of a variable number of battalions - commanded by a colonel. ...

Background

In 1967 U.S. commanders in the battlefield were under pressure to engage the NFL and destroy them in decisive battles. Under such pressure, many U.S. officers were dismissed as a result of their failure to engage the NFL in large operations. The 2/28th Black Lion Battalion was no different; in 1967 Lieutenant Colonel Terry de la Mesa Allen, Jr. took command of the battalion after many of the units' officers were dismissed from their post. Terry de la Mesa Allen, Jr. ...

The lack of contact had much to do with the NFL's reluctance to fighting large-scale battles, where superior American firepower would prove decisive. Instead NFL units often conducted hit-and-run operations against U.S troops.

After taking over as commander of the 2/28th Black Lion Battalion, Terry Allen, Jr.'s immediate objective was to find elements of the NFL 9th Division as part of Operation Shenandoah II.

On October 15, 1967, the NFL 271st Regiment, part of the 9th NFL Division and one of the most experienced NFL regiments in the country, arrived in Lai Khe within the 2nd Battalion's area of operation. The main objective of the regiment was to find food supplies instead of engaging American troops. The 271st Regiment went for days without food, and there were no supplies to be found. When local NFL units could not assist the 271st Regiment, Colonel Vo Minh Triet decided to dig in and wait.^{[citation needed]} is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ...

On October 16, elements of the 271st Regiment battled with two companies from the 2/28th Black Lion Battalion with both sides suffering relatively light casualties. Confident of destroying the NFL, Lieutenant Colonel Terry Allen Jr. ordered a frontal assault the next morning. Meanwhile preliminary B-52 strikes were ordered against NFL positions dug deep inside the forest. But if the order for B-52 strikes was placed, they didn't happen. According to an affidavit signed and certified by an Air Force captain afterward, "no B-52 strikes were placed in the area" until five days later.^{[citation needed]} is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... B-52 can refer to the following: The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber aircraft A hairstyle popular in the 1950s and 1960s, named after the aircraft A rock band, The B-52s, named after the hairstyle A cocktail This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists...

Battle

Shortly after breakfast at 08:00 on October 17, Lt. Col. Allen personally lead two companies from his unit and headed out for the jungle. While out pursuing the NFL in the jungle near Ong Thanh, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Saigon, the soldiers of the 2/28th Black Lion were ambushed by the NFL 271st Regiment, one of three regiments belonging to the NFL 9th Division. is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành Chí Minh) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. ...

The 2/28th were ambushed by an enemy they had pursued: first appeared a small group of NFL troops and then there were waves of enemy troops surged to attack. The Alpha and Delta Companies were pinned down as NFL snipers opened fire from all directions; the two companies took cover and returned fire. As part of their tactic the NFL ran parallel to the American column to "hug the enemy," and closed up on U.S soldiers to make artillery and air strikes difficult to accomplish without massive American casualties. As a result air support could not be requested although artillery fire was called in which killed U.S soldiers along with the NFL. For other uses, see Sniper (disambiguation). ...

During the battle the Black Lions were virtually wiped out by the entrenched NFL units, Alpha Company was wiped out in 20 minutes while Delta Company took heavy casualties. 2nd Battalion commander Allen was killed while Lt. Clark Welch (Commanding Officer of Delta Company) was wounded during the firefight. By the time the sun went down, 59 soldiers were dead and 75 wounded—this from two half-strength companies and a headquarters section, totaling fewer than 200 men. The battalion, which was no larger than a typical rifle company, had been destroyed while the brigade Operations Officer, James Shelton, was in Brigade Headquarters during the worst of the fighting, trying to coordinate artillery, medivac wounded and even giving advice to a soldier on how to use cigarette-pack cellophane to close a sucking chest wound.

After a couple of hours, the NFL had withdrawn their forces and the American survivors were evacuated by helicopter.

On October 18 the 271st Regiment withdrew from the area and moved north for refit and rearm, allowing American units to return and collect bodies that could not be retrieved the previous day. is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

During the war the U.S. Army's news services and some American newspapers reported the battle as an American victory. See Viet Cong and PAVN strategy and tactics for more information on NFL and PAVN fighting methods. Soldier of a VC Main Force Unit. ...

Aftermath

Books on the battle

The Battle of Ong Thanh is featured in David Maraniss's award-winning book, They Marched Into Sunlight (Simon & Schuster, 2003). A 2005 documentary film, part of the PBS American Experience series was based on this book and titled Two days in October. The book and film also feature a parallel story which was taking place at the same time back in the U.S. This was the student protest against Dow Chemical at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which resulted in violence and perhaps triggered similar troubles on a much wider scale in the U.S. from then onwards. David Maraniss (1949- ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. ... The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA. In terms of market capitalization, it is the second-largest chemical company in the world, smaller than only DuPont. ... University of Wisconsin redirects here. ...

Retired U.S. Army Brigadier General James Shelton, a former operations officer with the 2/28th Battalion has also written a limited-release book, "The Beast Was Out There," about the defeat of the Black Lion Battalion at the Battle of Ong Thanh.

Reconciliation

In March 2005 retired Lieutenant Clark Welch returned to Vietnam with David Maraniss. While in Vietnam, Welch met retired Colonel Vo Minh Triet, former commander of the NFL 271st Regiment. Triet expressed his view on the Battle of Ong Thanh: “On that day, no one won”.^[1] David Maraniss (1949- ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. ...

Notes

References

• Shelton, Brig. Gen. James E., The Beast Was Out There: Cantigny First Division Foundation, 2002.
• Maraniss, David, They Marched into Sunlight:Simon & Schuster, 2004.

External links

• 28th Infantry Regiment
• 1st Infantry Division after action report for the Battle of Ong Thanh
• Two days in October (PBS documentary film)
• New York Times Article, "One Morning in October"
• Names of the fallen U.S. soldiers
• Annotated Map of Operation Sheandoah II