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Article misnamed? Second Battle, not the First Battle?
Will editors please be aware that concern was recently raised at the
Teahouse by an elderly veteran of this battle (
Blacklion66) that this article is misnamed? He has also emailed me directly to state that this page describes not the First battle, but the Second Battle; the 1st battle being on 11 June 66. I have been informed that this story is told in the May 2016 issue of the Veterans of Foreign wars (VFW) Magazine, page 36, (not available in
online version), and is also told in their book "Brutal Battles of Vietnam" page 71. Looking online, I can find no
Reliable Sources, though have found a number of informal accounts (
here) and
here, for example). Plus
Trận Lộc Ninh – Battle of Lộc Ninh 1966 and possibly
page 314 of this book.
Mindful that there is also a page here called '
Battle of Loc Ninh', fought in April 1972, I realise resolving battle nomenclature requires more expert involvement than I can offer. Regards from the UK,
Nick Moyes (
talk)
14:07, 10 June 2018 (UTC)reply
G'day, perhaps it might be a better option to just rename this article "Battle of Loc Ninh (1968)", and the other article "Battle of Loc Ninh (1972)" rather than using a label that might not be used in RS? That would then in theory allow for a "Battle of Loc Ninh (1966)" if reliable sources could be found. Thoughts?
AustralianRupert (
talk)
04:57, 11 June 2018 (UTC)reply
I believe that they are probably referring to an engagement during
Operation El Paso, but I'm not aware of it being called the Battle of Loc Ninh. I support
AustralianRupert's suggestion of adding the year rather than debating first, second, third etc. regards
Mztourist (
talk)
07:07, 11 June 2018 (UTC)reply