| 词条 | Battle of Nam Dong |
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| conflict = Battle of Nam Dong | partof = the Vietnam War | date = July 5–6, 1964 | place = Nam Đông, Vietnam | coordinates= {{Coord|16.1175|N|107.678|E|display=inline}}[1] | result = Allied victory | combatant1 = {{flag|South Vietnam}} {{flag|United States}} {{flag|Australia}} | combatant2 = Viet Cong {{flagicon|Vietnam}} North Vietnam | commander1 = {{flagicon|United States}} Roger H. C. Donlon | commander2 = Unknown | strength1 = {{flagicon|South Vietnam}} 360 ARVN/CIDG {{flagicon|United States}} 12 Green Berets {{flagicon|Australia}} 1 Advisor | strength2 = ~800-900 guerrillas[2] | casualties1 = {{flagicon|South Vietnam}} 57 killed[3] {{flagicon|United States}} 2 killed {{flagicon|Australia}} 1 killed | casualties2 = 62 killed | campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Vietnam War}} }} The Battle of Nam Đông took place from July 5–6 1964 during the Vietnam War, when the Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) attacked the Nam Đông CIDG camp in an attempt to overrun it. During the battle, 57 South Vietnamese defenders, two Americans, an Australian Military advisor, and at least 62 attackers were killed. BattleNam Đông is situated {{convert|32|mi}} west of Da Nang in a valley near the Laotian border; it was manned by South Vietnamese personnel with American and Australian advisers, and served as a major thorn in the side of local VC militants. The PAVN/VC struck at the camp at 02:30 on 5 July to achieve the element of surprise, and reached the outer perimeter where CIDG forces managed to hold out. At 04:00 the senior officer, Captain Roger Donlon, radioed for support and 2 hours later 6 HMM-162 helicopters carrying reinforcements escorted by 2 U.S. Army UH-1B helicopter gunships left Da Nang Air Base for Nam Dong, but on arriving over the camp they were unable to land due to intense fire and had to return to Da Nang.[4]. A U.S. Army CV-2 Caribou managed to drop ammunition into the camp and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) A-1 Skyraiders carried out airstrikes on the PAVN/VC around the camp.[4]{{rp|158}} At 09:45 18 HMM-162 UH-34Ds escorted by 4 UH-1Bs and 2 RVNAF A-1s began landing a 93 man relief force and extracting the wounded. At 15:45 a further flight of 10 UH-34s delivered ammunition and equipment to the camp but by this time the battle was over.[4]{{rp|158}} Allied losses were 2 U.S., 1 Australian and 50 CIDG killed, while the PAVN/VC left 62 dead around the camp.[4]{{rp|158}} AftermathCaptain Donlon became the first American to be awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam for killing two VC sappers and thereby preventing them from breaching the Nam Dong base, while sustaining shrapnel wounds in the process.[5] For his actions during this battle, Warrant Officer Kevin Conway of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), was cited by his commander—then Colonel Ted Serong—for a Victoria Cross, the highest gallantry award for Australian service personnel. Conway was in a forward weapon pit with an American Master Sergeant, Gabriel Alamo, who was killed in the assault. Conway alone fired his mortar upon the assaulting enemy in ever decreasing range fire until he was forced to bring his mortar fire upon himself to save the perimeter of the base. Conway has never received the cited award for valour. He was the first Australian to be killed in action in the Vietnam War. Serong stated that it was US Special Forces politics that denied Conway his Victoria Cross. Sergeant John L. Houston, Radio Operator, was also killed during the action on 6 July 1964. Alamo and Houston were posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Sergeant Terrance D. Terrin, U.S. Army Green Beret Medic, was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in battle. The Green BeretsA key battle scene in the 1968 film The Green Berets was based on this battle. See also
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Kelley|first=Michael|title=Where we were in Vietnam|publisher=Hellgate Press|year=2002|isbn=978-1555716257|pages=5–351}} 2. ^[https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/01/heroes-vietnam-battle-nam-d%c8%8fng/ Heroes of Vietnam: The Battle for Nam Đȏng] 3. ^[https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/viet-cong-attack-special-forces-at-nam-dong Viet Cong attack Special Forces at Nam Dong] 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last=Whitlow|first=Robert|title=U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era, 1954-1964|publisher=History and Museums Division, Headquarters US Marine Corps|url=https://archive.org/details/TheAdvisoryAndCombatAssistanceEra|year=1977|isbn=9781494285296|page=157}} 5. ^{{cite news| title = One Who Was Belligerent| publisher = TIME Magazine| date = 1964-12-11| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897370,00.html| accessdate = 2007-04-22 }} External links
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