Battle of Hiep Hoa

Battle of Hiep Hoa
Part of Vietnam War
Date November 22, 1963
Location Hiep Hoa, South Vietnam

UTM Grid XT 443-065[1]
Result FNL victory
Belligerents
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam
 North Vietnam		  United States
 South Vietnam
Strength
500+ 219
Casualties and losses
Unknown, 7 bodies left behind 41 killed, 120 wounded, 32 missing and 2 captured

The Battle of Hiep Hoa was a minor battle of the Vietnam War. On the night of November 22, 1963, an estimated 500 FNL fighters overrun the Hiep Hoa Special Forces Camp, resulting in four American personnel MIA. South Vietnamese commando units and the American special operation forces resisted heavily using machine guns but were overwhelmed by the arrival of a NVA mortar unit. It was the first CIDG camp to be overrun during the war. Isaac Camacho, one of the four missing Americans, later became the first American to escape from a FNL POW camp.[2]

References

  1. ^ Kelley, Michael P. (2002). Where We Were In Vietnam. Hellgate Press. pp. 5–219. ISBN 1-55571-625-3. 
  2. ^ Morin, Eddie (June 2000). "Isaac "Ike" Camacho: Escaped from Captivity During the Vietnam War". Vietnam Magazine. http://www.historynet.com/magazines/vietnam/3026631.html. Retrieved 2007-04-22.