The Battle of Hiep Hoa was a minor battle of the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

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. On the night of November 22, 1963, an estimated 500 Viet Cong fighters overrun the Hiep Hoa Special Forces Camp, resulting in four American personnel MIA

Missing in action

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. Vietnamese commando

Commando

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 units and the American special operation forces resisted heavily using machine guns but were overwhelmed by the arrival of a NVA

NVA

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 mortar unit. It was the first CIDG

CIDG

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 camp to be overrun during the war. Isaac Camacho, one of the four missing Americans, later became the first American to escape from a VC POW camp.