Notes
line'; Gen David M. Shoup, SE Asia Trip
Folder, Scp62, hereafter Shoup SEA Trip Folder; LtCol Harold F. Brown, Comments
on Draft MS, Capt Robert Whitlow, 'U.S. Marine Activities in Vietnam, 1954-1964'
(Vietnam Comment File), hereafter H. F. Brown Comments.
2 SM.A Itr to CMC, 24Jan64.
3 Gen David M. Shoup, Itr to President
Ngo Dinh Diem, dtd Oct62 (_Shoup SEA Trip Folder').
4 Gen David M. Shoup conversation with
BGen Edwin H. Simmons, dtd Feb74 (1954-64 Project Interview Folder).
5 SMA Itr to CMC, 24Jan64.
PART II MARINE
HELICOPTERS GO TO WAR
Chapter 5 SHUFLY at
Soc Trang
Unless otherwise noted, the material in
this chapter is derived from: HQMC Msg File; Vietnam Comment File MCC Items;
CinCPac Command History, 1962; LtGen Keith B. AlcCutcheon, 'Marine Aviation In
Vietnam, 1962-1970,' Novas Review, v. 10 (1971), hereafter McCutcheon, 'Marine
Aviation.'
1 CS to CinCPac, 17Jan62, 1212Z (HQMC
Msg File).
2 CinCPac toJCS 28Feb62, 0217Z (HQMC Msg
File).
3 JCS to CinCPac, 6Mar62, 1838Z (HQMC
Msg File). DA to CinCPac and CinCUSARPac, 2Mar63 (HQMC Msg File).
4 ChMAAG, VN to CinCPac, 26Feb62, 0945Z
(HQMC Msg File).
5 CGFMPac to CinCPac 28Feb62, 0113Z
(HQMC Msg File). ' Ibid.
7 CinCPacFIt to CinCPac, 28Feb62, 2044Z
(HQMC Msg File).
8 CinCPac (Bangkok Th) to ComUSMACV,
5Mar62, 0340Z (HQMC Msg File).
ComUSMACV to CinCPac, 8Mar62, 0941Z
(HQMC Msg File).
10 CinCUSARPac to CinCPac, 9Mar62, 2100Z
(HQMC Msg File).
' Dir, DivAv, HQMC, Briefing Item, dtd
14Mar62, for CMC Weekly Conf., Subj: Assignment of Marine Helicopter Squadron to
ChMAAG, Vietnam.
12 CinCPac to JCS, 14Mar62, 0712Z (HQMC
Msg File).
13 Ibid.
'CinCPac to CinCPacFIt and ComUSMACV,
21Mar62' 0412Z (HQMC Msg File); CinCPac Fit to ComSeventhFIt, 21Mar62, 2048Z
(HQMC Msg File).
Deployment to Soc
Trang
Unless otherwise noted, the material in
this section is derived from: Commander Task Unit 79.3.5 ComdDiary,
31Jul-5Nov62, hereafter CTU 79.3.5 CmdD, 31 Jul-5Nov62; CG 1st MAW, SHUFLY,
OpSums, Apr-Sep62; CG, 1st MAW, Ltr of Instruction, SHUFLY, dtd 12Nov62,
hereafter CG, 1st MAW LOI; LtCol Archie J. Clapp, 'SHU-FLY Diary,' USNI
Proceeding, v. 89, no. 10 (Oct63), hereafter Clapp, 'SHU-FLY Diary'; Cdr Withers
M. Moore, Chaplain Corps, USN, Navy Chaplains in Vietnam, 1954-1964 (Washington:
Department of Navy, 1968), hereafter Moore, Navy Chaplains; Capt Robert B.
Asprey, 'Saga At Soc Trang: Marines In Viet-Nam,' Marine Corps Gazette, v. 46,
no. 12 (Dec62), pp. 2-3, hereafter Asprey, 'Saga At Soc Trang'; VAdm Edwin B.
Hooper, USN (Ret.), Intvw by Capt Robert Whitlow, dtd 15Apr74 (1954-64 Project
Interview Folder), hereafter Hoofer Interview.
15 CG, 1st MAW to ComSeventhFIt,
30Mar62, 0700Z, (QMHC Msg File).
16 Ibid.
17 ComSeventhFIt to CTF 76 and CTG 79.3,
3Apr62 (HQMC Msg File).
Mekong Delta Combat
Support Operations
Unless otherwise noted, the material in
this section is derived from: Marine Corps Operational Analysis Group, Study No.
1, dtd 12Mar63, 'Characteristics of U.S. Marine Helicopter Operations in the
Mekong Delta,' hereafter MCOAG Study No. 1; LtCol Robert L. Rathbun, Comments on
Yingling, etal., 'USMC Activities 1954-1963,' (Vietnam Comment File), hereafter
Rathbun Comments on Yingling MS; Richard Tregaskis, Vietnam Diary (New York:
Popular Library, 1963), hereafter Tregaskis, Vietnam Diary; Clapp, 'SHU-FLY
Diary'; CTU 79.3.5 ComdD, 31Jul-5Nov62; CG, IstMAW SHUFLY OpSums, Apr-Sep62.
18 Clapp, 'SHU-FLY Diary,' p. 46.
19 Ibid., p. 51.
20 CTU 79.3.5 ComdD, 31Jul-5Nov62.
21 Yingling, etal., 'USMC Activities
1954-1963,' p. 118.
22 CTU 79.3.5 ComdD, 31Jul-5Nov62.
23 C of S memo 007A20763, as quoted in
Yingling, et al., 'USMC Activities, 1954-1963,' p. 153.
Chapter 6 SHUFLY
Moves North
Unless otherwise noted, the material in
this chapter is derived from: Col Julius W. Ireland, Comments on Draft MS, Capt
Robert Whitlow, 'U.S. Marine Activities in Vietnam, 1954-1964' (Vietnam Comment
File), hereafter Ireland Comments; McCutcheon, 'Marine Aviation'; Weede
Interview; Rathiun Comments on tingling MS.
I Corps Tactical
Zone
Unless otherwise noted, the material in
this section is derived from: BGen Edwin H. Simmons, 'Marine Corps Operations in
Vietnam, 1965-1966,' Naval Review, 1968, hereafter Simmons, 'Marine Corps
Operations in RVN, 65-66'; McCutcheon, 'Marine Aviation'; Fall, Street Without
Joy; Nighswonger, Rural Pacification, 1962-65.
Military Situation, September 1962
Unless otherwise noted, the material in
this section is derived from: Col Francis J. Kelly, USA, U.S. Army Special
Forces 1961-1971 (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1973), hereafter
Kelly, U.S. Army Special forces; MACV J-2 Itr to CTU 79.3.5, dtd 110ct62, Subj:
Intelligence Estimate, Period Oct62-Fcb63 (End D-17 to CTU 79.3.5 ComdD),
hereafter MACV Intell Est, 110ct62.
1 MACV Intel Est, 110ct62.
2 Ibid.
Initial Helicopter
Operations
Unless otherwise noted, the material in
this section is derived from: CTU'1'9.3.5 ComdD, 31Jul-5Nov62; CG 1st MAW,
SHUFLY, OpSums, Sep-Dec62; McCutcheon, 'Marine Aviation'; Ireland Comments;
Rathbun Comments on Yingling MS.
3 MCC Items, 70ct62.
4 CTU 79.3.5 Itr to CG 1st MAW, dtd
40ct62, Subj: Rotation of Task Unit Personnel to South Vietnam (end. D-15, CTU
79.3.5 ComdD, 6Apr-Wov61').
