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Note: The enemy objective in the attack was to take and hold the city of Cu Chi.

0110 hours [1:10 AM], The 7th Liberation Front (LF) Battalion, reinforced, launched a ground and mortar attack on the town and subsector headquarters.  Viet Cong (VC), penetrated the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), compound and opened the jail.  About 50% of the compound was burned.  Local Regional Forces/Popular Forces (RF/PF) units, supported by ARVN and US artillery, defended.  

0320 hours [3:20 AM], The 25th Infantry Division base camp just to the north received a heavy attack by fire.  Ten rounds of 122mm rocket and two-hundred rounds of 82mm mortar fell resulting in one killed in action (KIA), and twenty-eight wounded in action (WIA).

   The Viet Cong in Cu Chi began to break contact at 0500 hours [5:00 AM].  At 0530 hours [5:30 AM], D Company 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry, with one platoon of 4/23 Mechanized, was engaged by VC blocking forces while moving south out of the base camp to relieve the town.

0730 hours [7:30 AM], The 2nd Battalion, 49th ARVN Infantry, moving to the north toward Cu Chi engaged VC blocking forces. It was reinforced by the 3rd Battalion, 49th Infantry and 1/10 Cavalry.

    Both US and ARVN units reached the center of town by 1030 hours [10:30 AM].  The VC forces withdrew from the area at 1145 hours [11:45 AM], but contact continued by ARVN until 1830 hours [6:30 PM].  There were forty VC KIA in Cu Chi and twenty-five others outside, eleven of which were killed by artillery.  Heavy civil damage was done to the center of Cu Chi.

    The Detachment provided 2 to 3 daily motorized roving road patrols nicknamed the "Rat Patrol" on Highway QL-1 and 8-A . They would travel northwest from Cu Chi Base Camp to Go Dau Ha village, east towards Phu Cong Village, and southeast towards Saigon. The duties varied from setting up checkpoints to road patrol and Traffic Control Points (TCP) at two defiles, one between Trang Bang and Go Dau Ha and the other at the Phu Cong Bridge for the Dau Tieng and Tay Ninh convoys.

    The MP’s also filled in where needed as escorts on the Dau Tieng, Trang Bang and Tay Ninh Convoys. Cu Chi Convoy was part of the larger Tay Ninh Convoy. A separate serial of trucks would separate from the larger convoy when they approached Cu Chi.