15 January 1970 ~ Thursday~ Day 1,194
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Operation OVERTAKE NIGHT Casualties At 0120 hours (1:20AM), a 720th MP Battalion, V100 Commando Car conducting an Operation OVERTAKE “NIGHT” escort was ambushed and struck by a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) B-40 round. The ambush occured just past the Philco Ford motor pool near the Thu Duc intersection.

"A large explosion that shook our V100" SP/4 Charles R. Smith, A Company, 720th MP Battalion, December 1969 to November 1970.

"Called in the ambush" SP/4 George Lahargoue, A Company, 720th MP Battalion, December 1968 to January 1970.

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