Operation Hastings
| Operation Hastings | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Vietnam War | |||||||
Marines of Company H, 2/4th Marines take to the water as they move to join up with other elements of their battalion | |||||||
| |||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||
|
United States South Vietnam | North Vietnam | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
|
Lewis W. Walt Wood B. Kyle Lowell English Ngo Quang Truong | Chu Phương Đới | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| 324-B Division | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 8,000 to 10,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
|
| ||||||
Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. The operation was a qualified success in that it pushed the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces back across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As the PAVN clearly did not feel constrained by the "demilitarized" nature of the DMZ, U.S. military leadership ordered a steady build-up of U.S. Marines near the DMZ from 1966 to 1968.