![]() ![]() In the summer of 1967 they moved to Quang Tin Province and operated as part of the Oregon Trail operation, a division task force using units of the 101st and 25th, which was the forerunner of the Americal. The bulk of those would be in the 66-67 period, when they mostly operated in the Tay Ninh area. I wonder what the breakdown is for fatalities suffered while independent of the Americal. They were primarily assigned to secure Danang. I am the unofficial historian of our 1/46th battalion and have kept a memorial list for our website (it's down now)Īs near as I've been able to discover from the record, we (1/46th) incurred our last fatality October 5 of 1971, so the non-americal remainder of the war for the 196th was relatively quiet. The bulk of deaths obviously in the later. And its year in Vietnam after the Americal was deactivated. ![]() It fought primarily from January 1968 though its deactivation in the summer of 1971.īut of course some of that casualty total was incurred by the 196th in its 18 months of operation before joining the Americal. So its existence in Vietnam was relatively short. The total would make the Americal the third highest in death total, which is remarkable in that the Americal was the last full division to be put together. The 2/1 Infantry (now part of the 10th Mountain Division) was officially the last infantry battalion to leave Vietnam. The 198th and 11th deactivated, but the 196th moved up to the Danang area where it remained until August 1972. It became independent again after the Americal rolled up it's colors in 1971. But 196Th's deployed in 1966 and was independent until incorporated into the Americal in 1967. The totals for the Americal's three brigades and non brigade units seem to be 4093. Note 1: This group is comprised of the following individual units with no further breakdown I Field Force Vietnam *IFFV*- 353Ĩ2d Airborne Division *All American* 228- 3rd Brigade onlyġst Signal Brigade - 193 United States Army Vietnam *USARV *847- Headquarters - includes advisorsĥth Special Forces Group (Airborne) *Green Berets*- 834Ģ3rd Infantry Division *Americal* 809- non-brigade unitsġ99th Light Infantry Brigade *Redcatchers* 757ġ1th Armored Cavalry Regiment* Blackhorse* 729ġst Logistical Command - 598ĥth Infantry Division (Mechanized) *Red Diamond *530- 1st Brigade only Military Assistance Command Vietnam *MACV* 1,017 -Advisors to ARVNġ98th Light Infantry Brigade - 987 ![]() Various Individual Units - 2,872 *See Note 1 belowĩth Infantry Division *Old Reliables* 2,629Ĥth Infantry Division *Ivy Division* 2,541ġ73rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) *Sky Soldiers* 1,758ġst Aviation Brigade - 1,706ġ96th Light Infantry Brigade - 1,188ġ1th Light Infantry Brigade - 1,109 KIA.CommentĢ5th Infantry Division *Tropic Lightning *4,561ġ01st Airborne Division *Screaming Eagles* 4,022ġst Infantry Division *Big Red One* 3,151 Source: National Archives and Records Administration ![]()
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