A Chronology Of Marine Helicopters In Vietnam 1962-1975see also Order of Battle The first Marine Corps helicopters to serve in Vietnam arrived just four months after the first American helicopters were deployed in-country. On 15 April 1962, a Sikorsky H
On 15 September, the lst Marine Division, under the command of Major General Oliver P. Smith led the first major United Nations strike in North Korean territory, with an amphibious assault at Inchon that completely caught the enemy by surprise. In five days of textbook campaigning, the division...
The record of a Marine battalion in Vietnam, 1964-69, by a former infantry captain. Lehrack's technique is to record various NCOs, privates, and line officers, then to distill their accounts and give them a chronology. He sets this worm's-eye view in wider context; for instance, he ...