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Thailand Begins Operation NARASUAN

October 1, 1967 - October 31, 1967

Soldiers of the Queens Cobras conduct a search and sweep mission in Phuoc Tho, 1967
Soldiers of the Queens Cobras conduct a search and sweep mission in Phuoc Tho, 1967
Soldiers of the Queens Cobras conduct a search and sweep mission in Phuoc Tho, 1967

Thailand’s Queen’s Cobras Regiment begins its first large-scale independent action in Vietnam, known as Operation NARASUAN. The regiment engages in search-and-destroy and civic action missions in Bien Hoa Province. Its objective is to aid in the pacification of the Nhon Trach District.1

1Stanley Robert Larsen and James Lawton Collins, Jr., Allied Participation in Vietnam, Vietnam Studies (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1985), 32–35; Spencer C. Tucker, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2nd edition; Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 1110.