Notes
PART I
A Contracting War
CHAPTER 1 THE WAR IN I CORPS, EARLY
1970
Unless otherwise noted, material in
this chapter is drawn from:
MilHistBr, Office of the Secretariat,
General Staff, HQ, USMACV, Command History 1969 and Command History 1970,
hereafter cited as MACV ComdHist with appropriate year; Fleet Marine Force,
Pacific, Operations of U.S. Marine Forces, Vietnam, January through
December 1970, hereafter cited as FMFPac, MarOpsV with month and year; III MAF
ComdCs, Jan-Jun 70; and BGen Edwin H. Sim-mons, USMC, 'Marine Corps Operations
in Vietnam, 1969-1972,' in The Marines in Vietnam W4-1973: An Anthology and
Annotated Bibliography (Washington, D.C.: History and Museums
Division, HQMC, 1974), hereafter cited as Simmons, 'Marine Operations.'
HI MAF in January 1970
1. FMFPac, MarOpsV, Jan70, p. 32;
FMFPac ComdC, Jan-Jun 70; III MAF 4th Quarterly Written Summary, Combined
Campaign Plan 1969, dtd 17Jan70, End 8, 1st MarDiv Admin Files; hereafter 4th
Quarterly Plan, 1969; Combined Action Force ComdC, Jan70.
2. Maj Miles D. Waldron, USA, and Sp5
Richard W Beavers, 'The Critical Year 1968: The XXIV Corps Team' (U. S. Army
Center of Military History), hereafter cited as XXIV Corps History 68, pp. 2-3,
14-15, 77-78; MACV ComdHist 1969,1, ch. V, p. 44; 4th Quarterly Plan 1969.
3. Simmons, 'Marine Operations;' 4th
Quarterly Plan 1969.
4. FMFPac, MarOpsV, Feb70, p. 19; 4th
Quarterly Plan 1969.
5. MACV ComdHist 1969, I, ch. IV, pp.
1-5; FMFPac ComdC, Jan-Jun70.
6. Biographical Files (RefSec, MCHC);
LtGen Herman Nickerson, Jr., intvw, Jan73, (Oral HistColl, MCHC) hereafter
Nickerson intvw.
7. MACV ComdHist 1970, III, p. E-3.
8. MACV ComdHist 1969,1, ch. Ill, p.
88; MACV ComdHist 1970, I, ch. V, pp. 89-90; FMFPac, MarOpsV, Jan70, p. 42.
9. MajGen Ormond R. Simpson, Debriefing
at FMFPac, 15Dec69, Tape 4695, (Oral HistColl, MCHC), hereafter Simpson Debrief;
refer also to LtGen H. Nickerson, Jr., debriefing at FMFPac, 10Mar70, Tape 4806
(Oral HistColl, MCHC).
10. Simpson Debrief.
Allied and Enemy Strategy, 1969-1970
11. A convenient statement of the
Marine concept of the relationship between pacification and large-unit
operations can be found in FMFPac, MarOpsV, pp. 4-5.
12. MajGen Lloyd B. Ramsey, USA,
Comments on draft ms, 2Jun83 (Vietnam Comment File), hereafter Ramsey Comments.
13. Gen William C. Westmoreland, USA,
intvw, 4Apr83, p. 8 (Oral HistColl, MCHC).
14. MACV Comd Hist 1969,1, ch. II, pp.
3-7, 14-17; Kevin P. Buck-ley, 'General Abrams Deserves a Better War,' The New
York Times Magazine, 50ct69, pp. 34-5, 120-31, offers a summary of Abrams'
strategy and a sketch of his personality.
15. MACV ComdHist 1969, I, ch. I, pp.
1-4.
16. Ibid, I, ch. Ill, pp. 47-48, 94-97;
the command history quotes long passages from Resolutions 9 and 14.
17. All of these plans are summari2ed
in Ibid. I, ch. II, pp. 1-8, and II, ch. VII, 1-2.
The ffl MAP/ICTZ Combined Plan for 1970
All material in this section is drawn
from the III MAF/ICTZ Combined Campaign Plan 1970, dtd 13Dec69 , hereafter
III MAF/ICTZ Combined Campaign Plan 1970. Footnote citations in this section
refer to the plan and list only locations of the material within the plan.
18. Anx B, pp. 1-1, 1-2.
19. Anx L, pp. L-l-L-3.
Troop Redeployment—Keystone Bluejay
20. Ill MAF/ICTZ Combined Campaign Plan
1970, pp. 2-3.
21. MACV ComdHist 1970, II, ch. VII, p.
2; HQMC Messages.
22. MACV ComdHist 1969, I, ch. IV, pp.
11-13, 20-24; Simmons, 'Marine Operations,' pp. 128, 132.
23. Simmons, 'Marine Operations,' p.
132; FMFPac ComdC, Jan-Jun70, p.2.
24. Ibid., p. 133; MACV ComdHist 1969,
I, ch. V, p. 177.
25. LtGen LeoJ. Dulacki, comments on
draft ms, 8Apr83 (Vietnam Comment File), hereafter Dulacki Comments.
26. LtGen LeoJ. Dulacki, USMC (Ret),
intvw 240ct74, pp. 91-2, 97-8 (Oral HistColl, MCHC), hereafter Dulacki intvw.
27. Col Floyd Waldrop, comments on
draft ms, l6Apr83 (Vietnam Comment File), hereafter Waldrop Comments.
28. Dulacki Comments.
29. HQMC Messages; New York Times,
7Nov69, and 5 Dec69.
30. Dulacki intvw, pp. 96-98, HQMC
Messages; Dulacki Comments.
31. MACV ComdHist 1970, I, ch. IV, p.
10.
32. HQMC Messages; LtGen William J. Van
Ryzin, intvw, 20Apr71, p. 65 (Oral HistColl, MCHC).
33. Dulacki Comments.
34. FMFPac, MarOpsV, Dec70, pp. 64-65.
The 26th Marines was attached to the 1st Marine Division, but the tank,
engineer, amphibian tractor, reconnaissance, and other elements which would
be attached to it to form an RLT had been designated in advance so that they
quickly could be detached from their parent formations to establish the
RLT. Col Ralph A. Heywood, debriefing at
