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  • Battle of Khe Sanh
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Strength
  • Operation Arc Light and operation Niagara: US Air Forces
  • Defense at Route 9: ~16,900
  • Siege at Khe Sanh: ~17,200
  • ~45,000 in total
  • ~6,000 Marines at the Combat Base of Khe Sanh Operation Pegasus: ~20,000
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Partof
  • the Vietnam War
Date
  • --01-21
Commander
  • Vo Nguyen Giap
  • William Westmoreland
  • Le Quang Dao
  • David E. Lownds
  • Rathvon M. Tompkins
  • Robert McNamara
  • Tran Quy Hai
Caption
  • NVA artillery shells strike near the Khe Sanh airstrip
Casualties
  • 5
  • 7
  • 11
  • 274
  • 485
  • 703
  • 2541
  • 2642
  • At Khe Sanh:
  • CIDG losses: 309 killed, 64 wounded, 250 captured
  • Casualties of U.S. Airforce personnel:
  • Operation Charlie for the final evacuation :
  • Operation Scotland I Operation Pegasus :
  • Operation Scotland II :
  • Total : 10,350+ casualties
  • Unknown Vietnamese figures: 2,469 KIA .
Result
  • --04-06
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Place
  • Khe Sanh Combat Base , Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam – UTM Grid XD 852-418
Conflict
  • Battle of Khe Sanh
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