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The following events happened in August 1961: ... American U.S. Army commander who accepted Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945; August 10 ... the United States, the ...
4 January. United States Ambassador to South Vietnam Elbridge Durbrow forwarded a counterinsurgency plan for South Vietnam to the State Department in Washington. The plan provided for an increase in the size of the ARVN from 150,000 to 170,000 to be financed by the United States, an increase in the size of the Civil Guard from about 50,000 to 68,000 to be partially financed by the United ...
By August 1961, six months after Momentum began its three-day training program, the Clandestine Army of Hmong had reached 9,000 strong; [11] it was then slated to train an additional 3,000 recruits. At about the same time, President John F. Kennedy , acting as Commander in Chief, directed the transfer of Momentum's training programs over to the ...
The first aerial spraying of herbicides was a test run conducted on 10 August 1961 in a village north of Đắk Tô against foliage. [24]: 11 Testing continued over the next year and even though there was doubt in the State Department, the Pentagon and the White House as to the efficacy of the herbicides, Operation Ranch Hand began in early 1962.
Also Pancho Villa Expedition – an abortive military operation conducted by the United States Army against the military forces of Francisco "Pancho" Villa from 1916 to 1917 and included capture of Veracruz. On March 19, 1915, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, and with tacit consent by Venustiano Carranza.
17 January 1961 – 30 September 1974: Operation Momentum, in Military Region 2 (MR 2) 31 January – 6 June 1961: Battle of Ban Pa Dong, in Military Region 1 (MR 1) 13 March – August 1961: Operation Millpond, nationwide, (cancelled) 13 December 1961 – 10 September 1962: Operation Pincushion, in Military Region 4 (MR 4)
January 30 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy approved a $41 million counterinsurgency plan in North Vietnam, drawn up for President Eisenhower by General Edward Lansdale, to help the government of South Vietnam resist communist aggression. Designed to add 52,000 men to that nation's army and civil guards, the plan included ...
General Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith (5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961) was a senior officer of the United States Army who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff at Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) during the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943, during World War II.