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A map of South Vietnam showing provincial boundaries and names and military zones: I, II, III, and IV Corps. The Viet Cong (VC) insurgency expanded in South Vietnam in 1962. U.S. military personnel flew combat missions and accompanied South Vietnamese soldiers in ground operations to find and defeat the insurgents.
The photographs and videos captured by DASPO document the Vietnam War and are now historical artifacts of this period. The purpose of DASPO was to inform the Pentagon and the Department of the Army, but their photos also often accompanied news reports and introduced the American public to the realities of the faraway war. [16]
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January 1 - The People's Revolutionary Party was founded as a Marxist–Leninist political party in South Vietnam, and its leaders receiving instruction directly from the Lao Dong Party of North Vietnam. [1] January 3 - The first United States military transport aircraft arrive in South Vietnam. The aircraft would be used to transport South ...
Burrows went on to become a photographer and covered the war in Vietnam from 1962 until his death in 1971. [9]One of Burrows' most famous images was published first in a Life magazine article on 16 April 1965 named One Ride with Yankee Papa 13, about a mission on 31 March 1965.
1962–1963: Image:BlankMap-World-1962.png; 1970: Image:BlankMap-World-1970.png; 1985: Image:BlankMap-World-1985.png – World before the fall of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany (including West Berlin), and Yemen, and dissolution of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, and the independence of East Timor and Eritrea. Nominally from 1985.
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 ...
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