Battle of Hiệp Hòa
Part of theVietnam War
Date November 22, 1963 Location Hiệp Hòa,Long An Province,South Vietnam 10°54′50″N106°18′58″E / 10.914°N 106.316°E /10.914; 106.316 (Hiep Hoa Camp)[1] Result Viet Cong/North Vietnamese victory
Belligerents
Viet Cong North Vietnam	United States South Vietnam
Strength
500+	219
Casualties and losses
Unknown, 7 bodies left behind	41 killed 32 missing 2 captured

TheBattle of Hiệp Hòa was a minor battle of theVietnam War. On the night of November 22, 1963, an estimated 500Viet Cong (VC) fighters overran the Hiệp Hòa Special Forces Camp, resulting in four American personnel missing. South Vietnamesecommando units and the AmericanSpecial Forces resisted heavily usingmachine guns but were overwhelmed by the arrival of aPeople's Army of Vietnam mortar unit. It was the firstCIDG camp to be overrun during the war. Isaac Camacho, one of the four missing Americans, later became the first American to escape from a VCPOW camp.

The fall of the camp marked one of the first times a CIDG base of this sort was overrun, representing a blow to the U.S./South Vietnamese special-forces construction of remote outposts. Some sources mark this as the first such camp to fall.

In South Vietnamese historiography, the battle is celebrated in Long An province as a “victory” that boosted local morale, showed weaknesses in the “strategic hamlet” approach, and helped to shift the dynamic in that sector of operations.

On a broader U.S./allied level, the incident highlighted vulnerabilities in remote Special Forces / CIDG camp construction: poor security, infiltration risks, and difficulties defending isolated posts.

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