# Leatherneck Square

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'''Leatherneck Square''' was an area just south of the [Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone](/source/Vietnamese_Demilitarized_Zone) that separated [North Vietnam](/source/North_Vietnam) and [South Vietnam](/source/South_Vietnam).<ref name=Telfer>{{cite book |last=Telfer|first=Gary|title=U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Fighting the North Vietnamese 1967 (Marine Corps Vietnam Operational Historical Series)|publisher=History & Museums Division, United States Marine Corps |year=1984|isbn=9781787200845|url=https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/U_S_%20Marines%20in%20Vietnam%20Fighting%20the%20North%20Vietnamese%201967%20%20PCN%2019000309000.pdf}}{{PD-notice}}</ref>{{rp|22}}
thumb|right|Map of Leatherneck Square
The corners of the square were [Con Thien](/source/Con_Thien) and [Firebase Gio Linh](/source/Firebase_Gio_Linh) in the north, [Đông Hà Combat Base](/source/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_H%C3%A0_Combat_Base) and [Cam Lộ](/source/Cam_L%E1%BB%99_Combat_Base), in the south, making it about {{convert|6|mi|km}} wide (east to west) and about {{convert|9|mi}} deep north to south).<ref name=Shulimson>{{cite book|last=Shulimson|first=Jack|title=U.S. Marines in Vietnam: 1968 The Defining Year|publisher=History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps|year=1997|url=https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/US%20Marines%20In%20Vietnam%20The%20Defining%20Year%201968%20%20PCN%2019000313800.pdf|isbn=0160491258}}{{PD-notice}}</ref>{{rp|18, 40}}
 
Some of the heaviest fighting of the [Vietnam War](/source/Vietnam_War) was fought in this 54+ square mile area. The official figures on losses in all operations in this area from [Operation Prairie III](/source/Operation_Prairie_III)/[IV](/source/Operation_Prairie_IV),<ref name=Telfer/>{{rp|30}} through Hickory, Cimarron, [Buffalo](/source/Operation_Buffalo_(1967)), [Kingfisher](/source/Operation_Kingfisher) and [Kentucky](/source/Operation_Kentucky),<ref name=Shulimson/>{{rp|40}} i.e., from March 1967 to February, 1969 were 1,419 Marines and Navy Corpsmen killed in action and 9,265 Marines and Corpsmen wounded in action. [People's Army of Vietnam](/source/People's_Army_of_Vietnam) losses were put at 7,563 killed, wounded unknown.

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