Operation Junction City was a Vietnam War airborne operation carried out by a combined force of US Army units and South Vietnamese elements in the province of Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, from February 22 to May 14, 1967. Operation Junction City was the largest airborne operation conducted by the US Army in the Vietnam War, and the second largest in its history, surpassed only by Market Garden during World War II.

Operation Junction City was an extensive seek and destroy campaign aimed at routing North Veitnamese and Viet Cong units from War Zone C area, which lay northwest of Saigon. A second objective was the destruction of the Viet Cong Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN), which controlled all enemy activities south of the triborder region of Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam.

Although Junction City was a successful military operation, destroying many communist camps and killing 1.728 enemy troops, the Viet Cong Central Office for South Vietnam fled into Cambodian territory, where it remained for the rest of the US commitment to the Southeast Asian conflict. The lack of success in completely destroying the Viet Cong Central Office was due to three main factors. They included the proximity of a sancutuary to reported COSVN locations, difficulty in achieving sufficient troop density to infiltrate the Viet Cong and the failure to gain complete surprise through the repositioning of US troops.

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