The 173rd Mobile Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) ("Sky Soldiers") is an airborne mobile Brigade Combat Team (MBCT) of the United States Army based in Vicenza, Italy. It is the United States European Command's conventional airborne strategic response force for Europe.
20th Century · 8th November
The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
1965
Year of Event
61
Years Ago