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    ROBERT FOLEY, JOHN BAKER

    Dec 04, 2018 2 minutes
    By Doug Sterner

    The 196th Light Infantry Brigade launched Operation Attleboro on Sept. 14, 1966, to conduct search-and-destroy missions against Viet Cong in Tay Ninh province, north of Saigon along the Cambodian border. By November the operation included elements of the 1st, 4th and 25th infantry divisions and the 173rd Airborne Brigade. On the morning of Nov. 3, troops of the 196th Light Infantry patrolled the dense forest

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