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The Recovery Program
Document Item Number: 13680112020
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Ron Leonard Collection
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Added: 29 May 2007 [Updated: 29 May 2007]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Ron Leonard Collection
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Added: 29 May 2007 [Updated: 29 May 2007]
Chuong Thien Province - IV Corps - Briefing
Document Item Number: 1071717011
[Number of Pages: 13]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Glenn Helm Collection
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Added: 04 Sep 2018 [Updated: 04 Sep 2018]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Glenn Helm Collection
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Added: 04 Sep 2018 [Updated: 04 Sep 2018]
Bien Hoa Province - III Corps - Information Brief
Document Item Number: 1071717005
[Number of Pages: 22]
Item Creation Date: July 1970
Collection: Glenn Helm Collection
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Added: 30 Aug 2018 [Updated: 30 Aug 2018]
Item Creation Date: July 1970
Collection: Glenn Helm Collection
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Added: 30 Aug 2018 [Updated: 30 Aug 2018]
[Number of Pages: 17]
Item Creation Date: May 1971
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 06 - Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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Added: 29 Oct 2003 [Updated: 21 Mar 2023]
Item Creation Date: May 1971
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 06 - Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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Added: 29 Oct 2003 [Updated: 21 Mar 2023]
[Number of Pages: 12]
Item Creation Date: 31 July 1971
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Insurgency Warfare
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Added: 12 Apr 2004 [Updated: 20 Dec 2023]
Item Creation Date: 31 July 1971
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Insurgency Warfare
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Added: 12 Apr 2004 [Updated: 20 Dec 2023]
CIA and Rural Pacification in South Vietnam - Center for the Study of Intelligence (released February 2009)
Document Item Number: 04117220001
[Number of Pages: 436]
The following description is from The National Security Archive / The CIA's Vietnam Histories : Newly-Declassified CIA Histories Show Its Involvement in Every Aspect of the Indochina War ; https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB284/
The present set of monographs [6 volumes] neverless stand as the broadest recounting of CIA operational experience in the Southeast Asia conflict, a substantial achievement for their author, Thomas Ahern, a clandestine services officer who served during the war in both South Vietnam and Laos. Ahern began work on the series in the early 1990s, completed the first in 1998 and finished the last of the series in 2006.
This volume of the CIA's Vietnam history goes back to the beginning of agency involvement to lay out a record of its efforts in behalf of the South Vietnamese to encourage popular support for the Saigon government. The CIA historian argues that the agency's record shows the CIA "understood the insurgency little better than did the rest of the bureaucracy" [p. xiv]. In fact the Saigon station took the lead innovating pacification measures throughout the conflict, with the headquarters role essentially limited to commentary on Saigon station proposals. The major CIA initiatives through the war are profiled, including early civic action, the village defense program, the formation of mountain scouts, strategic hamlets, people's action teams, census grievance and revolutionary development programs, the intelligence coordination and exploitation program, and the late-war "Phoenix" program—all of which flowed from agency field officers or the Saigon station itself.
Pacification proved unsuccessful, in the CIA historian's view, partly because South Vietnamese authorities from the beginning were not well established in the villages—80 percent of the government bureaucracy was located in Saigon or in provincial capitals in the beginning [p. 5], and later for reasons ranging from lack of American focus to Saigon obstructionism. During the Diem period the CIA Saigon station's paramilitary chief, a key actor in all pacification activities, is quoted saying, "The Vietnamese official is the real obstacle to success" [p. 59]. In the later part of the war, which the CIA historian views as 1969 to 1975, he concludes that this period "saw the gradual decay of the CIA-sponsored pacification programs, as the Vietnamese elected not to invest in them" [p. xv-xvi]. This conclusion in the CIA's official history contradicts scholarship that argues the National Liberation Front was defeated by pacification success during this late period.
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Author(s): Thomas L. Ahern, Jr.
Item Creation Date: August 2001
Collection: Central Intelligence Agency Collection
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Added: 13 Jan 2022 [Updated: 13 Jan 2022]
The following description is from The National Security Archive / The CIA's Vietnam Histories : Newly-Declassified CIA Histories Show Its Involvement in Every Aspect of the Indochina War ; https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB284/
The present set of monographs [6 volumes] neverless stand as the broadest recounting of CIA operational experience in the Southeast Asia conflict, a substantial achievement for their author, Thomas Ahern, a clandestine services officer who served during the war in both South Vietnam and Laos. Ahern began work on the series in the early 1990s, completed the first in 1998 and finished the last of the series in 2006.
This volume of the CIA's Vietnam history goes back to the beginning of agency involvement to lay out a record of its efforts in behalf of the South Vietnamese to encourage popular support for the Saigon government. The CIA historian argues that the agency's record shows the CIA "understood the insurgency little better than did the rest of the bureaucracy" [p. xiv]. In fact the Saigon station took the lead innovating pacification measures throughout the conflict, with the headquarters role essentially limited to commentary on Saigon station proposals. The major CIA initiatives through the war are profiled, including early civic action, the village defense program, the formation of mountain scouts, strategic hamlets, people's action teams, census grievance and revolutionary development programs, the intelligence coordination and exploitation program, and the late-war "Phoenix" program—all of which flowed from agency field officers or the Saigon station itself.
Pacification proved unsuccessful, in the CIA historian's view, partly because South Vietnamese authorities from the beginning were not well established in the villages—80 percent of the government bureaucracy was located in Saigon or in provincial capitals in the beginning [p. 5], and later for reasons ranging from lack of American focus to Saigon obstructionism. During the Diem period the CIA Saigon station's paramilitary chief, a key actor in all pacification activities, is quoted saying, "The Vietnamese official is the real obstacle to success" [p. 59]. In the later part of the war, which the CIA historian views as 1969 to 1975, he concludes that this period "saw the gradual decay of the CIA-sponsored pacification programs, as the Vietnamese elected not to invest in them" [p. xv-xvi]. This conclusion in the CIA's official history contradicts scholarship that argues the National Liberation Front was defeated by pacification success during this late period.
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Author(s): Thomas L. Ahern, Jr.
Item Creation Date: August 2001
Collection: Central Intelligence Agency Collection
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Added: 13 Jan 2022 [Updated: 13 Jan 2022]
[Number of Pages: 31]
Item Creation Date: 05 February 1968
Collection: John Donnell Collection
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Added: 07 Oct 2002 [Updated: 10 Apr 2024]
Item Creation Date: 05 February 1968
Collection: John Donnell Collection
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Added: 07 Oct 2002 [Updated: 10 Apr 2024]
SEALS in Action - Excerpts from the Book
Document Item Number: 3670904002
[Number of Pages: 17]
Author(s): Kevin Dockery
Item Creation Date: 01 February 1991
Collection: George J. Veith Collection
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Added: 02 Jun 2004 [Updated: 02 Jun 2004]
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Author(s): Kevin Dockery
Item Creation Date: 01 February 1991
Collection: George J. Veith Collection
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Added: 02 Jun 2004 [Updated: 02 Jun 2004]
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Revised HES Handbook Question-Set and Glossary
Document Item Number: 2171812001
Part A
Part B
[Number of Pages: 65]
Item Creation Date: 01 January 1971
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Insurgency Warfare
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Added: 06 Jul 2004 [Updated: 06 Jul 2004]
Item Creation Date: 01 January 1971
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Insurgency Warfare
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Added: 06 Jul 2004 [Updated: 06 Jul 2004]
OPERATIONS OF U.S. MARINE FORCES, VIETNAM [FMFPAC]
Document Item Number: 1201002033
[Number of Pages: 0069]
FMFPAC (Fleet Marine Force, Pacific)
Item Creation Date: April 1969
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
FMFPAC (Fleet Marine Force, Pacific)
Item Creation Date: April 1969
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
[Number of Pages: 111]
Responsibilities: MACV District Senior Advisor - MACV Province Senior Advisor - Military Region HQ HES Officer ;
Procedures: Monthly Data Collection - Monthly Update of HES Ledger Cards - End-of-Month Transcription to HES Updating Forms - Report Submission ;
Annex A: Guidance for Completing HES Ledger Cards ;
Annex B: Guidance for Completing Hamlet Ledger Cards ;
Annex C: Guidance for Transferring Ledger Cards Data to Updating Forms ;
Annex D: Examples of HES Forms ;
Annex E: HES Question Set and Glossary ;
Item Creation Date: June 1971
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Insurgency Warfare
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Added: 06 Jul 2004 [Updated: 26 Mar 2024]
Responsibilities: MACV District Senior Advisor - MACV Province Senior Advisor - Military Region HQ HES Officer ;
Procedures: Monthly Data Collection - Monthly Update of HES Ledger Cards - End-of-Month Transcription to HES Updating Forms - Report Submission ;
Annex A: Guidance for Completing HES Ledger Cards ;
Annex B: Guidance for Completing Hamlet Ledger Cards ;
Annex C: Guidance for Transferring Ledger Cards Data to Updating Forms ;
Annex D: Examples of HES Forms ;
Annex E: HES Question Set and Glossary ;
Item Creation Date: June 1971
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 03 - Insurgency Warfare
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Added: 06 Jul 2004 [Updated: 26 Mar 2024]
CORDS I Newsletter (Civil Operations & Rural Development Support) - Newsletter - DaNang
Newsletter Item Number: 1078Newsletter50436
[Number of Pages: 22]
Volume: 1
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: 25 September 1970
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection (Personal Papers)
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Added: 15 Jan 2002 [Updated: 15 Sep 2023]
Volume: 1
Issue: 2
Item Creation Date: 25 September 1970
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection (Personal Papers)
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Added: 15 Jan 2002 [Updated: 15 Sep 2023]
Flight of the Phoenix- Vietnam
Document Item Number: 2123405007
[Number of Pages: 5]
Author(s): Col William Wilson
Item Creation Date: February 1994
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 01 - Assessment and Strategy
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Added: 31 Jan 2007 [Updated: 31 Jan 2007]
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Author(s): Col William Wilson
Item Creation Date: February 1994
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 01 - Assessment and Strategy
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Added: 31 Jan 2007 [Updated: 31 Jan 2007]
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Villager Resource tally
Document Item Number: 0720301010
Part A
Part B
Part C
[Number of Pages: 138]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: John Donnell Collection
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Added: 12 Jun 2002 [Updated: 22 Apr 2022]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: John Donnell Collection
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Added: 12 Jun 2002 [Updated: 22 Apr 2022]
Part A
Part B
Part C
[Number of Pages: 205]
Item Creation Date: 13 October 1970
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 01 - Assessment and Strategy
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Added: 02 May 2005 [Updated: 15 Apr 2020]
Item Creation Date: 13 October 1970
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 01 - Assessment and Strategy
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Added: 02 May 2005 [Updated: 15 Apr 2020]
OPERATIONS OF U.S. MARINE FORCES, VIETNAM [FMFPAC]
Document Item Number: 1201001171
[Number of Pages: 0064]
FMFPAC (Fleet Marine Force, Pacific)
Item Creation Date: November 1967
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
FMFPAC (Fleet Marine Force, Pacific)
Item Creation Date: November 1967
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
Combat Operations After Action Report, TET Offensive - LTG Frederick C. Weyand, Reporting Officer, CG II Field Force Vietnam
Document Item Number: 13680112001
[Number of Pages: 105]
[VNCA NOTE: This PDF is a compilation of all pages in Box 01 Folder 12, Item# 13680112001-13680112021.]
Item Creation Date: [circa February 1968]
Collection: Ron Leonard Collection
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Added: 28 May 2007 [Updated: 16 Feb 2022]
[VNCA NOTE: This PDF is a compilation of all pages in Box 01 Folder 12, Item# 13680112001-13680112021.]
Item Creation Date: [circa February 1968]
Collection: Ron Leonard Collection
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Added: 28 May 2007 [Updated: 16 Feb 2022]
Book, U.S. Army Center of Military History - Indochina Monographs, Pacification
Document Item Number: 1071413001
Part A
Part B
Part C
[Number of Pages: 229]
Author(s): Brigadier General Tran Dinh Tho
Item Creation Date: 1984
Collection: Glenn Helm Collection
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Added: 28 Feb 2018 [Updated: 28 Feb 2018]
Author(s): Brigadier General Tran Dinh Tho
Item Creation Date: 1984
Collection: Glenn Helm Collection
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Added: 28 Feb 2018 [Updated: 28 Feb 2018]
Indochina Monographs: Pacification - US Army Center of Military History
Document Item Number: 27700544001
[Number of Pages: 229]
Author(s): Brigadier General Tran Dinh Tho
Item Creation Date: 1984
Collection: J. D. Coleman Collection
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Added: 26 Sep 2018 [Updated: 01 Oct 2018]
Author(s): Brigadier General Tran Dinh Tho
Item Creation Date: 1984
Collection: J. D. Coleman Collection
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Added: 26 Sep 2018 [Updated: 01 Oct 2018]
Magazine Article, Delta Advisor - War at the Rice Roots Level: Chau Doc, Vietnam, 1969-1970
Document Item Number: 24990106001
Author(s): F. C Brown
Item Creation Date: 31 January 1990
Collection: Dale W. Andrade Collection
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Added: 20 Feb 2017 [Updated: 20 Feb 2017]
Item is Copyrighted – Check for access via the Vietnam Reading Room portal.
Item Creation Date: 31 January 1990
Collection: Dale W. Andrade Collection
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Added: 20 Feb 2017 [Updated: 20 Feb 2017]
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FACT SHEET, COMBINED ACTION FORCE [2D CAG]
Document Item Number: 1201022080
[Number of Pages: 0060]
2D CAG (2nd Combined Action Group)
Combined Action Program given separate command status on 11 January 1970
Combined Action Force (CAF) operational control passed from III MAF to XXIV Corps on 26 March 1970
Organization Charts
Map of Combined Action Force unit locations
Discussion of the Mobile CAP Concept
Operations Statistics for 1969, 1 January - 31 March 1970
Letter to LTG Zais - Survey results of 102 villages of I CTZ by American-directed 3-man Vietnamese survey teams
Comments about the CORDS Survey of CAP Villages
Combined Action Force Order 3300.1 - Rules of Engagement and Standards of Conduct for Members of CAF
Force Order 3121.4B - Standing Operating Procedure for CAF
I Corps Coordinator Instruction 5401.2A - I CORPS/III MAF Combined Actino Program Joint Policy (dual language: English and Vietnamese)
Item Creation Date: 01 March 1970
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
2D CAG (2nd Combined Action Group)
Combined Action Program given separate command status on 11 January 1970
Combined Action Force (CAF) operational control passed from III MAF to XXIV Corps on 26 March 1970
Organization Charts
Map of Combined Action Force unit locations
Discussion of the Mobile CAP Concept
Operations Statistics for 1969, 1 January - 31 March 1970
Letter to LTG Zais - Survey results of 102 villages of I CTZ by American-directed 3-man Vietnamese survey teams
Comments about the CORDS Survey of CAP Villages
Combined Action Force Order 3300.1 - Rules of Engagement and Standards of Conduct for Members of CAF
Force Order 3121.4B - Standing Operating Procedure for CAF
I Corps Coordinator Instruction 5401.2A - I CORPS/III MAF Combined Actino Program Joint Policy (dual language: English and Vietnamese)
Item Creation Date: 01 March 1970
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
Reflections on the Vietnam War - Indochina Monographs
Document Item Number: 27700541001
[Number of Pages: 173]
Author(s): General Cao Van Vien, Lieutenant General Dong Van Khuyen
Item Creation Date: 1984
Collection: J. D. Coleman Collection
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Added: 25 Sep 2018 [Updated: 01 Oct 2018]
Author(s): General Cao Van Vien, Lieutenant General Dong Van Khuyen
Item Creation Date: 1984
Collection: J. D. Coleman Collection
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Added: 25 Sep 2018 [Updated: 01 Oct 2018]
COMMAND CHRONOLOGY [1ST MARDIV]
Document Item Number: 1201015033
[Number of Pages: 0389]
1ST MARDIV (1ST Marine Division)
Item Creation Date: September 1967
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
1ST MARDIV (1ST Marine Division)
Item Creation Date: September 1967
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
Interview with Robert Branson
Oral History Item Number: OH1218
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Robert Branson discusses his experiences in Vietnam with the U.S. Army. Branson served with MACV as an advisor to the ARVN 21st Combat Assistance Team at Bac Lieu, November 1968 to October 1969. Branson returned for a second tour of duty as District Senior Advisor at Ke Sach, July 1971 to January 1973. He also served as a member of the Four Power Joint Military Commission at Ke Sach, January to April 1973.Item Creation Date: 19 April 2022
Collection: Robert Branson Collection
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Added: 19 Apr 2022 [Updated: 20 Dec 2023]
COMMAND CHRONOLOGY [1ST COMBINED ACTION GROUP]
Document Item Number: 1201016095
[Number of Pages: 0123]
1st Combined Action Group, III Marine Amphibious Force [1st CAG, III MAF]
Item Creation Date: July - October 1968
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 22 Nov 2024]
1st Combined Action Group, III Marine Amphibious Force [1st CAG, III MAF]
Item Creation Date: July - October 1968
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 22 Nov 2024]
COMMAND CHRONOLOGY [1ST MARDIV]
Document Item Number: 1201015037
[Number of Pages: 0443]
1ST MARDIV (1ST Marine Division)
Item Creation Date: January 1968
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
1ST MARDIV (1ST Marine Division)
Item Creation Date: January 1968
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
COMMAND CHRONOLOGY [1ST MARDIV]
Document Item Number: 1201015029
[Number of Pages: 0152]
1ST MARDIV (1ST Marine Division)
Item Creation Date: May 1967
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
1ST MARDIV (1ST Marine Division)
Item Creation Date: May 1967
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
COMMAND CHRONOLOGY [1ST MARDIV]
Document Item Number: 1201015026
[Number of Pages: 0256]
1ST MARDIV (1ST Marine Division)
Item Creation Date: February 1967
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
1ST MARDIV (1ST Marine Division)
Item Creation Date: February 1967
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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(USMC Unit Index)
Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 18 Mar 2024]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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