Tet-68 in Tuy Hoa information
for Tet-68
4/503 ABN 173 ABN
47 ARVN REG
28 ROK REG
From date 680130 to 680206
4/503 ABN 173 ABN was a US Army unit
47 ARVN REG was a Vietnamese Army unit
28 ROK REG was a Korean Army unit
Phu Yen Province, II Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Tuy Hoa
Description: At about 0200 hours, the 5th Bn, 95th NVA Regt attacked the airfield, the provincial prison, and American artillery positions. C Battery, 6th Bn, 32nd Artillery, an 8 inch and 175mm composite battery, was one of these positions. They were located at the Tuy Hoa North Airfield, on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Tuy Hoa. At about 0700 hours, a reaction force arrived from the 4th Bn, 503rd Inf, 173rd Abn reinforced by a battalion from the Korean 28th Regt. The RVN prison camp was just south of the artillery battery. The NVA had suffered very high casualties during the night and holed up in a little refugee village just south of the prison camp. The battalion commander of the 4/503rd landed and personally led a charge against the surrounded NVA which resulted in 19 US KIA and 39 WIA. The brigade commander had him pull back and had the fast movers from Tuy Hoa Air Base annihilated the survivors of the NVA battalion. There were less than a half dozen wounded survivors. The NVA were supported during the Tet attack by a local Viet Cong battalion which escaped almost unscathed. It was this VC battalion that conducted two attacks against the city of Tuy Hoa and were repulsed by two battalions of the ARVN 47th Regt. The ARVN moved against the remaining enemy strongholds in the center of Tuy Hoa on 5 Feb and captured it on the 6th.
The source for this information was Rise & Fall P:228; Dave Barber = 6/32nd Arty
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