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Thoi Son Island, Mỹ Tho River, south of Dong Tam Base Camp: Jan 5 – 17: Operation Big Muddy [1] 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division operations: along the Saigon River: Jan 10 – 18: Operation Treasure Island [1] 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment cordon and search operation: Bình Dương Province: Jan 13 – Feb 9
Congressman Alexander Pirnie (R-NY) drawing the first capsule for the Selective Service draft, Dec 1, 1969 1 December. The first draft lottery in the United States since 1942 (and the first in peacetime) was held, and September 14 was the first of the 366 days of the year selected, with Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York making the first ...
Ground combat in South Vietnam, including air operations in direct support; Air operations against North Vietnam; Pacification in South Vietnam; There were, however, changes in the overall situation from early 1964 to the winter of 1965–1966, from 1966 to late 1967, and from late 1968 until the U.S. policy changes with the Nixon Administration.
The DMZ Campaign (1969–71) was a military campaign by the United States Army, United States Marine Corps (USMC) and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) against the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) along the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in northern Quảng Trị Province from 1969 to 1971 during the Vietnam War.
I Corps (Vietnamese: Quân đoàn I) was a corps of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975. It was one of four corps of the ARVN. This was the northernmost region of South Vietnam, bordering North Vietnam at the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
Central Office for South Vietnam's Resolution No. 9 disseminated in 1969, emphasized the strategic importance of the Mekong Delta and conceived it as the principal battlefield where the outcome of the war in South Vietnam would be decided, the PAVN/VC infiltrated the 1st Division Headquarters and its three regiments, the 88th, 101D and 95A into ...
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June 8, 1969 - Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn by the end of September. A month later, troops would begin departing South Vietnam; July 25, 1969 - The Nixon Doctrine is announced in an informal press conference by President Nixon. July 30, 1969 - President Nixon visits South Vietnam for the first and only time.