1st Battalion 22nd Infantry Operation Sam Houston and Francis Marion

1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

OPERATION SAM HOUSTON

and

OPERATION FRANCIS MARION

February 1 - April 30, 1967

The above illustration shows some of the massive amounts of supplies readied for
2nd Brigade's operations in early 1967, at Camp Holloway, near Pleiku.

Photo from: "Taking The Offensive October 1966 to October 1967" by George L. MacGarrigle, US Army Center of Military History 1998

At the conclusion of Operation Paul Revere IV, most of the NVA main force units pulled back into Cambodia to regroup.
On January 3, 1967, Major General William Peers assumed command of the 4th Infantry Division. He kept his 2nd Brigade,
which included 1/22 Infantry, poised to counter any enemy move into the 4th Division area of operations.

As the NVA began to move substantial size units into the Plei Trap Valley just inside South Vietnam near Cambodia,
Peers launched efforts to find and destroy them, resulting in two major operations that began in February and ended
in April of 1967. These operations, the first of which was called Sam Houston, and the second of which was called
Francis Marion, ran back to back, involving 1/22 in its first major engagements with the NVA.

The material covering these operations, presented on these pages, is taken from the 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry
Operational Report for the Quarterly Period Ending 30 April 1967, the 4th Infantry Division Combat After Action Report
for Sam Houston, and "Taking The Offensive October 1966 to October 1967" by George L. MacGarrigle,
US Army Center of Military History 1998.

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