New Zealand Army Engineers Arrive in Vietnam

¹“New Zealand’s Road to Vietnam,” http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/nz-vietnam-war/new-zealands-vietnam-war (link is external), records that New Zealand sent 25 Army engineers in June 1964. Ian McGibbon says that the team actually was dispatched on June 23, arrived in Saigon on June 29, and that it was “20 men” and a total of 5 officers (2 in direct command of the 20 sappers and 3 in a “headquarters element”). See McGibbon, New Zealand’s Vietnam War: A History of Combat Commitment and Controversy (Aukland, NZ: Exisle Publishing Inc., 2010), 50-53. Stanley Robert Larsen and James Lawton Collins, Jr., Allied Participation in Vietnam, Vietnam Studies  (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1985), 105 says they arrived on July 20, 1964.