battle, Cold War

Operation Hastings

Name: Operation Hastings
Location: Vietnam

Operation Hastings was a battle fought in 1966 in what is now Vietnam. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at its recorded location. It was part of Q120355808. The recorded result: South Vietnamese and U.S. victory. Recorded strength: 8,000; 3,000 against 8,000 to 10,000.

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Fought1966

WhereVietnam16.988N, 107.036E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeSouth Vietnamese and U.S. victory

BelligerentsUnited States; South VietnamagainstNorth Vietnam

Casualties and losses126 killed; 21 killedand~700 killed; 17 captured

Part ofQ120355808

Where it sits in Q120355808

7 placed engagements of Q120355808 in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1966 (year precision) to 1966
Place	Vietnam 16.988N, 107.036E
Kind	Battle, Cold War
Strength	8,000; 3,000	8,000 to 10,000
Casualties and losses	126 killed; 21 killed	~700 killed; 17 captured
Commanders	Lewis William Walt Wood B. Kyle Lowell English Ngo Quang Truong

Placed at its recorded location; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Dai Do 1968, 18 km SE
Battle of Cửa Việt 1973, 18 km SE
Battle of Binh An 1968, 27 km SE
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972, 29 km S
First Battle of Quảng Trị 1972, 29 km S

In the same war

Before: Operation Masher 1966
After: Operation Junction City 1967

Elsewhere in 1966

Operation Hastings is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 140 in present-day Vietnam.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q1519185, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Hastings, revision 1384115437, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.