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US Army: 73rd Aviation Company: South Vietnam, Vĩnh Bình Province: Pilot of OV-1C #61-2687 shot down over the U Minh Forest [71] Presumptive finding of death [3] June 9: Demmon, David S: Sergeant: US Army: 73rd Aviation Company: South Vietnam, Vĩnh Bình Province: Electronic sensor operator on OV-1C #61-2687 shot down over the U Minh Forest [72]
D Company, 87th Infantry Regiment, 95th Military Police Battalion: South Vietnam, Thu Đức District: Captured by Viet Cong while off duty. Last seen alive in Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia in January 1969 [297] Presumptive finding of death [3] September 12: Shark, Earl E: Sergeant: US Army: 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment: South Vietnam ...
US Army: 61st AHC: South Vietnam: Passenger on U-6A #52-25884 that disappeared while flying from Qui Nhon to Buôn Ma Thuột city [158] Presumptive finding of death [3] January 3: Palen, Carl A: Specialist 5: US Army: 61st AHC: South Vietnam: Passenger on U-6A #52-25884 that disappeared while flying from Qui Nhon to Buôn Ma Thuột city [159]
A U.S. government depiction of the military situation in South Vietnam in early 1964. 2 January. United States Marine Corps (USMC) Major General Victor H. Krulak, along with a committee of experts asked to advise on the war, submitted a recommendation to President Johnson for a three phase series of covert actions against North Vietnam. Phase I ...
Communist Party leaders in Hanoi established the Special Military Operations Corps Group 559 to maintain a supply route from North to South Vietnam along the backbone of the Annamese Cordillera. Later, in September 1959, Group 959 was created to construct supply lines through Laos to South Vietnam and to provide military support to the Pathet ...
A map of South Vietnam showing provincial boundaries and names and military zones: I, II, III, and IV Corps. In 1965, the United States rapidly increased its military forces in South Vietnam, prompted by the realization that the South Vietnamese government was losing the Vietnam War as the communist-dominated Viet Cong (VC) gained influence over much of the population in rural areas of the ...
This compares with 26 years of age for those who participated in World War II. Soldiers served a one-year tour of duty. The average age of the U.S. military men who died in Vietnam was 22.8 years old. [59] The one-year tour of duty deprived units of experienced leadership. As one observer put it, "we were not in Vietnam for 10 years, but for ...
The number of US military personnel in Vietnam jumped from 23,300 in 1965 to 465,600 by the end of 1967. Between October 1966 and June 1969, 246,000 soldiers were recruited through Project 100,000, of whom 41% were black; black people only made up about 11% of the population of the US. [ 102 ]