D Company Contact — June 30, 1968 (YD288318)
June 30, 1968 — YD288318
Research stub. Built from a single secondary source (a veteran-transcribed company daily journal). No US fatality is recorded from this action.
At 1655 hours on June 30, 1968, D Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry received small-arms fire and grenades from an unspecified number of North Vietnamese soldiers at grid YD288318. One American soldier was wounded, and the company's scout dog was killed. Medevac ran from 1700 to 1852. The journal gives no enemy casualty count or unit identification for this contact.
This action is recorded here for completeness of the D Company record for June-July 1968 — it is not tied to any roster KIA. It is part of the journal's own month-end tally: three US KIA, four WIA, one scout dog KIA, ten enemy KIA, and one prisoner of war.
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The 2/8 Cav daily staff journal (NARA RG 472, 30 June 1968) would provide further detail on the contact and identify the wounded soldier.
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