Operation Nantucket Beach | |||||||
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Part of the Vietnam War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States |
North Vietnam Viet Cong | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
198th Light Infantry Brigade | 2nd Division | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
51 killed |
US body count: 630 killed 38 captured 212 weapons recovered |
Operation Nantucket Beach was a security operation during the Vietnam War conducted by the 198th Light Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division on the Batangan Peninsula from 23 July 1969 to 10 March 1971.