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Coast Guard Squadron Three Begins Supporting Operation MARKET TIME

May 15, 1967

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Five white 311-foot cutters of Coast Guard Squadron Three, assigned to support Operation MARKET TIME tied alongside Navy repair ship USS Jason (AR-8) at Subic Bay in the Philippines, August 4, 1967. (left to right) USCGC Half Moon, USCGC Yakutat, USCGC Gresham, USCGC Barataria, and USCGC Bering Strait. (U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office)

Coast Guard Squadron Three, newly arrived in Vietnam, begins to support the U.S. Navy in Operation MARKET TIME. Squadron Three is equipped with five 311-foot, high-endurance cutters. In addition to providing fire support, Squadron Three interdicts enemy supply vessels and engages in medical and civic action programs. USCG Cutter Barataria conducts the first fire-support mission for Squadron Three on May 22.1

1Eugene N. Tulich, “The United States Coast Guard in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam Conflict,” “Chapter 3,” http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/h_tulichvietnam.asp (link is external) (accessed 8/4/14); “U.S. Coast Guard in Vietnam: A Gallery of Historic Photographs: Coast Guard Squadron Three,” http://www.uscg.mil/history/uscghist/VietnamPhotoIndex_D.asp (link is external) (accessed 4/7/14); “USCG in Vietnam Chronology,” (US Coast Guard) http://www.uscg.mil/history/uscghist/USCGVietnamChronology.pdf (accessed 4/7/14); Spencer C. Tucker, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2nd edition; Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 1193–94.