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Re(1): VETERANS DAY 1967 !
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Posted on November 10, 2016 at 10:09:05 PM by Jerry B

The “Stand Alone” Battalion was initiated into the Vietnam War on November 11, 1967-Veterans Day-an appropriate date for the unit to begin its combat legacy as a new generation of Currahees. On this day, the 3-506 embarked on its first combat operation-Operation ROSE. It was a combination Search and Destroy/Reconnaissance in Force operation southwest of Phan Rang in Ninh Thuan Province. One of the mission objectives was also to provide security for a group of engineers working along Highway QL 1 (Route 1). The primary mission objective, however, was to conduct search and destroy operations southwest of Phan Rang to find, fix, and destroy Viet Cong/NVA forces, as well as neutralize their base camps, especially Secret Base 35.
As the Battalion conducts its first combat assault against the enemy, Captain Landgraf’s Bravo Company made first contact with the enemy. Shortly after arriving at their hot LZ (Landing Zone), Bravo Company engaged ten Viet Cong armed with automatic weapons. Charlie Company also encounters a small Viet Cong force, but with negative results. The Currahees eventually made contact with the enemy on fifteen out of the twenty days that they were involved in Operation ROSE.
On the second day of Operation ROSE, Pfc. Winston Hamilton, a rifleman in Lt. Love’s 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, became the first paratrooper in the Battalion to be wounded by enemy fire. Twenty-one days later, fate would have it that Pfc. Hamilton would also become the first Currahee from the 3-506 to be killed in action (KIA).

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