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23 February 1969 - 8 June 1969 | |||||||||
23 Feb 69 |
Viet Cong attack 110 targets throughout South Vietnam
including Saigon.
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25 Feb 69 |
NVA raid on a USMC base camp near the Demilitarized Zone
kills 36 U.S. Marines.
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27 Feb 69
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Marines Repel Human Waves - Red Suicide Attack | ||||||||
27 Feb 69
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Airborne 'Assault' to Make History | ||||||||
4 Mar 69 |
Viet Cong offenses in the South prompt President Nixon
to threaten to resume bombing North Vietnam in retaliation.
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10 Mar 69
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G.I.’S Hurl Back Charge By N. Viet Battalion | ||||||||
15 Mar 69 |
U.S. troops go on the offensive inside the Demilitarized
Zone for the first time since 1968.
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Mar 69 |
Letters from Vietnam veteran Ronald Ridenhour result
in a U.S. Army investigation into the My Lai massacre.
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17 Mar 69 |
President Nixon authorizes the secret bombing of Cambodia
by B-52s in Operation Menu, targeting North Vietnamese supply sanctuaries
located along the border of Vietnam.
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4 Apr 69 |
C/1/50 CP track hit a mine at BR235485.
8 WIA medicvaced, including one serious.
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1-13 Apr 69 |
Battalion HQ at Camp Radcliff until
13 April 1969. Operations in AO Marshall were primarily road and bridge
security along QL 19.
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9 Apr 69 |
At Harvard University, 300 anti-war students seize the
administration building, throw out eight deans, then lock themselves in.
They are later forcibly ejected.
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13 Apr 69 |
Under OPLAN Washington Green, 1/50
began relocating to LZ Uplift. Battalion forward TOC located at Phu My
District HQ.
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18 Apr 69 |
1225: Main body of 1st Bn (Mech),
50th Infantry closed on LZ Uplift during relocation from Camp Radcliff,
An Khe.
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19 Apr 69 |
1/50 began pacification of Phu My
District and assumed responsibility for road and bridge security along
QL1 between Bong Son Pass and LZ Uplift.
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28 Apr 69
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Air-Land Duel Rages Along Suez | ||||||||
28 Apr 69
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Reds Bushwhacked at Cambodia Border | ||||||||
28 Apr 69
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29 Warship U.S. Armada Shifting to The Yellow Sea | ||||||||
28 Apr 69
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2nd Negro Mass Arrest | ||||||||
30 Apr 69 |
U.S. troop levels peak at 543,400. The total of 33,641
Americans killed to date in Vietnam exceed the total killed in the Korean
War.
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May 69 |
The New York Times breaks the news of the secret bombing
of Cambodia. As a result, Nixon orders FBI wiretaps on the telephones
of four journalists, along with 13 government officials to determine the
source of news leak.
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10-20 May 69 |
In the A Shau Valley near Hue, the 101st Airborne fight a 10-day battle at "Hamburger Hill," with 46 U.S. KIA and 400 U.S. WIA. After the hill is taken, the troops are then ordered to abandon it by their commander. NVA then move in and take back the hill unopposed. The costly assault and its confused aftermath provokes a political outcry back in the U.S. that American lives are being wasted in Vietnam. |
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14 May 69
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Reds Shell, Attack 159 U.S., Viet Sites | ||||||||
14 May 69 |
During his first TV speech on Vietnam, President Nixon
presents a peace plan in which America and North Vietnam would simultaneously
pull out of South Vietnam over the next year. The offer is rejected by
Hanoi.
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14 May 69
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Nixon to Address Nation on Viet Outlook | ||||||||
May 69 |
Washington orders MACV Commander GEN Abrams to avoid encounters
like Hamburger Hill in the future. It is the last major search and destroy
mission by U.S. troops in the war, with small unit actions used instead.
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22 May 69
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10-Day Fight Over - 'Hamburger Hill' Taken | ||||||||
22 May 69
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Nixon, Thieu Set Talks on Midway | ||||||||
8 Jun 69
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President Nixon meets South Vietnam's President Nguyen
Van Thieu at Midway Island and informs him U.S. troop levels are going
to be sharply reduced. During a press briefing with Thieu, Nixon announces
"Vietnamization" of the war and a U.S. troop withdrawal of
25,000 men.
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