aced an enemy combat force of 48,500, 97 percent of them South Vietnamese guerrillas (“Viet Cong”).
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A few months after the Ia Drang Valley battle, in March 1966, the Pentagon reported 13,100 North Vietnamese forces in the South, along with 225,000 Viet Cong, facing 216,400 U
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