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The order of battle for the Viet Cong concerned a contested American intelligence issue of the Vietnam War. Arising In the mid-1960s, its focus was the count of enemy combatants. Often called the order of battle controversy, the debate came to divide the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and challenge military intelligence.
December 24, 1794 – February 3, 1795. Battle of Genoa (1795) British and French fleets. March 13–14, 1795. Biscay campaign of June 1795. British and French fleets. June, 1795. Battle of Quiberon. French Republican and Anglo-Royalist forces.
The Americal Division was an infantry division of the United States Army during World War II and the Vietnam War . The division was activated 27 May 1942 on the island of New Caledonia. [1] [2] In the immediate emergency following Pearl Harbor, the United States had hurriedly sent a task force to defend New Caledonia against a feared Japanese ...
American Cavalry Divisions 1941–1945 order of battle information posted at the Combined Arms Research Library, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; The Brigade: A History, Its Organization and Employment in the US Army by John J. McGrath, Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2004; U.S. Army Order of Battle 1919–1941, Volume 2.
Portal. v. t. e. United States involvement in the Vietnam War began shortly after the end of World War II in Asia, first in an extremely limited capacity and escalating over a period of 20 years. The U.S. military presence peaked in April 1969, with 543,000 American military personnel stationed in Vietnam. [ 1]
The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [3] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [4] [5] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...
The 1st Infantry Division ( 1ID) is a combined arms division of the United States Army, and is the oldest continuously serving division in the Regular Army. [5] It has seen continuous service since its organization in 1917 during World War I. [6] It was officially nicknamed "The Big Red One" (abbreviated "BRO" [2]) after its shoulder patch [6 ...
10th Mountain Division. (Light Infantry) The 9th Infantry Division (nicknamed "Old Reliables") is an inactive infantry division of the United States Army. It was formed as the 9th Division during World War I, but never deployed overseas. In later years it was an important unit of the U.S. Army during World War II and the Vietnam War.