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The "Three
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of 1972 in late April the VC 48th
Battalion was reported to have destroyed 23 villages around the Batangan Peninsula, killing 23 civilians and making a further 30,000 homeless in an attempt to disrupt South Vietnamese pacification efforts. Among the villages destroyed were two housing survivors of
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forces. The population was largely removed from the peninsula during the assault phase and a clear and search operation was followed by the construction of new roads and hamlets. The population was allowed to return in April 1969 together with South
Vietnamese government institutions VC losses in
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on the peninsula on 7–10 September 1965. The operation resulted in US claims of 178 VC killed and 360 VC and suspected VC had been captured. Allied losses were two
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to seal off the southern boundary. Due to constant US bombardment, civilians had lived primarily in bunkers and caves in the region. The
Marines evacuated numerous civilians for screening, eventually totaling some 11,900 people. Following the conclusion of the assault phase,
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Eastern Economic Review (1971). "Allegedly, during March 1969 US military units systematically annihilated more than 1,200 civilians from Ba Lang An peninsula, Quang Ngai province. American and Vietnamese troops had swept Ba Lang An from January 13 to February
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Entre le cap Bantam et le cap
Batangan, s'ouvrent quelques baies assez mal protégées, et au large émerge la grande île de Culao-Baj, battue par les houles et les vents, « sentinelle avancée de l'Annam central ». Au sud du cap Batangan,
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Operation Russell Beach were 158 killed and 116 suspects detained and 55 individual and six crew-served weapons captured. U.S. losses were 56 killed.
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Laurent, Louis; Darboux, G.; Heckel, Edouard (1906).
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