Notes

PARTI Pre-Tet 1968

CHAPTER l A PUZZLING WAR

Unless otherwise noted the material in this chapter is derived from MilHistBr, Office of the Secretary, Joint Staff MACV, Command History, 1967, hereafter MACV ComdHist, 1967; MilHistBr, Office of the Secretary, Joint Staff MACV, Command History, 1968, hereafter MACV ComdHist, 1968; HQMC, Status of Forces, Dec67-Jan68;

FMFPac, Marine Operations in the Republic of Vietnam, hereafter FMFPac, MarOpsV with specific month; CGFMFPac, Pacific Operations, tab F, General Officers Symposium Book, 1967, hereafter CGFMFPac, Pacific Opns; III MAF ComdCs, Dec67-Jan68; LtGen John R. Chaisson Papers (Hoover Institution on War, Peace and Revolution, Stanford University), hereafter Chaisson Papers; Assessment and Strategy Files (Indochina Archives, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley), hereafter A&S Files, Indochina Archives; LtGen Victor H. Krulak, First to Fight, An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1984), hereafter Krulak, First to Fight; Adm Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, USN, CinCPac, and Gen William C. Westmoreland, USA, ComUSMACV, Report on the War in Vietnam (As of 30 Jun 1968) (Washington: GPO, 1968), hereafter Sharp and Westmoreland, Report on the War; Gen William C. Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports (Garden City, New York:

Doubleday & Co, Inc., 1976), hereafter Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports; Edward J. Marolda, By Sea, Air, and Land, An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia (Washington: Naval Historical Center, 1994), hereafter Marolda, By Sea, Air, and Land; Jack Shulimson and Maj Charles M. Johnson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, The Landing and the Buildup, (Washington: Hist&MusDiv, HQMC, 1978), hereafter Shulimson and Johnson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1965; Jack Shulimson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, An Expanding War, 1966 (Washington: Hist&MusDiv, HQMC 1982), hereafter, Shulimson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1966; Maj Gary F. Telfer, LtCol Lane Rogers, and Victor K. Fleming, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, Fighting the North Vietnamese Army, 1967 (Washington: Hist&MusDiv, HQMC, 1984), hereafter Telfer, Rogers, and Fleming, U.S. Marines in 1967; BGen Edwin H. Simmons, 'Marine Corps Operations in Vietnam, 1968,' Naval Review, 1970 (Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Institute, 1970), pp. 290-320, hereafter Simmons, 'Marine Operations, 1968.'

III MAF in January 1968 l. HQMC, Status of Forces, Dec67-Jan68. See also III MAF ComdC, Jan68; FMFPac, MarOpsV, Dec67-Jan68; and MACV ComdHist, 1967,pp.127-8.

2. Ill MAF ComdC, Jan68; MACV ComdHist, 1967, pp. 127-8.

3. Gen Robert E. Cushman, Jr. Biographical File (RefSec, MCHC). MACV and Command Relations

4. MACV ComdHist, 1967, p. 124; Sharp and Westmoreland, Report on the War, pp. ii-iii, 79, 156, 291-4; Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports, passim.

5. MACV ComdHist, 1968, p. 248.

6. Ibid., pp. 238, 345; MACV ComdHist, 1967, pp. 156-7; HQMC, Status of Forces, Dec67-Jan68.

7. Gen William C. Westmoreland USA (Ret.) intvw, dtd 4Apr83, p.

II (Oral HistColl, MCHC); MACV ComdHist, 1968, pp. 248, 443,

475-77; MACV ComdHist, 1967, p. 9.

8. MACV ComdHist, 1967, p. 124. For relations between FMFPac and

III MAF, and between III MAF and Seventh Air Force, see the previous volumes in this series, Shulimson and Johnson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam; 1965; Shulimson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1966; and Telfer, Rogers, and Fleming, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1967, passim. See also BGen John R. Chaisson Itrs to his wife, dtd 6Sep67, 30Sep67, and 14Nov67 (Chaisson Papers).

9. MACV ComdHist, 1967, p. 167; For command relations between Army and Navy Flotilla Group see MajGen William B. Fulton, Riverine Operations 1966-69, Vietnam Studies (Washington: Dept of the Army, 1973), pp 85-8.

10. MACV ComdHist 1967, p. 6; MACV ComdHist 1968, pp. 217, 222-23.

11. Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports, p. 127. See also MACV ComdHist 1968, pp. 7 and 22-3.

12. Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports, p. 240.

13. Gen William C. Westmoreland, USA, Comments on Shulimson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1966, dtd 28Jul78 (Vietnam Comment File).

14. Willard Webb, JCS Historical Office, in Vietnam Historians Workshop, Plenary Session, 9 May 1983 (Washington: Hist&MusDiv, n.d.[1984]), p. 12.

South Vietnam and I Corps

15. The preceding paragraphs of this section were largely drawn from Stanley Karnow, Vietnam, A History (New York: The Viking Press, 1983), pp. 213-311, 386, 444-^152, hereafter Karnow, Vietnam; Col Dave R. Palmer, Summons of the Trumpet, (San Rafael, California: Presidio Press, 1978), pp. 1^8, hereafter Palmer, Summons of the Trumpet; and the previous volumes in this series: Capt Robert H. Whitlow, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-64, The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era (Washington, D.C.: Hist&Mus Div, HQMC, 1977); Shulimson and Johnson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1965; Shulimson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1966;

Telfer, Rogers, and Fleming, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1967, passim.

16. MACV ComdHist, 1968, pp. 142-3, 270, 300-01, 335, 341;

HQMC, Status of Forces, Dec67-Jan68. There is a slight discrepancy between the figures in the command history and the Status of Forces. The text uses the figures in the Status of Forces as more representative of the period at the beginning of 1968. For the strength of the Navy, see Marolda, By Sea, Air, and Land, p. 216. For the powers of the Military Council, See Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports, p. 219.

17. MACV ComdHist, 1968, pp. 275, 300-01.

18. CGFMFPac, Pacific Opns, pp. 10-11.

19. MACV ComdHist 1968, p. 376; HQMC, Status of Forces, Dec67-Jan68.

20. Shulimson, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 7966, pp. 73-91.