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Remainder of the 101st Airborne Division Arrives in Vietnam

December 1, 1967 - December 31, 1967

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101st Airborne Division troops arrive at Bien Hoa Air Base in South Vietnam, December 13, 1967. (National Archives)

The final two brigades of the 101st Airborne Division arrive in Vietnam in December (the 1st Brigade has been in Vietnam since 1965). MACV assigns the newly arrived brigades to I Corps to counter growing enemy activity in the northern provinces.1

1Richard W. Stewart, ed., The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917–2008 (2nd edition; Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2010), 333; “Welcome to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault),” http://www.army.mil/article/85879/Welcome_to_the_101st_Airborne_Division__Air_Assault_/ (link is external) (accessed 4/14/14); Graham A. Cosmas, MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Escalation, 1962–1967, United States Army in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2006), 234, 236.