Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cong Lieut. Colonel Dong Doan, who obligingly led them straight to a regimental headquarters defended by a token force. The 1st Air Cav took it in fierce hand-to-hand fighting, killing 150 of its garrison. And only 60 miles south of Cu Chi, South Vietnamese troops of the 9th Division killed 175 Viet Cong in their continuing sweep in the Delta...
...increase in the armed forces set in motion by the President in July. To handle them, General Johnson is opening five new training centers. Three new 7,500-man infantry brigades are being organized. At Fort Riley, Kans., the Army will activate the brand-new, 14,000-man 9th Infantry Division. More than 700 smaller units are taking shape. Twenty-nine additional Army helicopter companies are sprouting rotors. Last week the Pentagon announced plans for at least one more chopper-supported airmobile division...
Paul R. DeRensis '66 and Brian J. H. Lederer '67, leaders of the Harvard-Radcliffe November 9th Committee, presented Humphrey with a pro-administration Vietnam petition when he arrived at Logan International Airport. According to Lederer, Humphrey assured them that "the President will see this within 24 hours...
Paul R. DeRensis '66 and Brian J. H. Lederer '67, leaders of the Harvard-Radcliffe November 9th Committee will present a petition in support of President Johnson's Vietnam policy to Humphrey when he arrives at Logan Airport at noon today...
...been in Viet Nam in an advisory role to government forces ever since the French were swept out in 1954 -a role that grew with the swelling magnitude of the Viet Cong threat until eventually it required 24,000 men. But it was not until last March, when the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade of 3,500 men swarmed ashore at Danang, that the first U.S. combat troops entered the fray. Like the 7,500 men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and the 101st Airborne's Danang 1st Brigade that soon followed, the marines' first assignment was defensive: creating...