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Task Force OREGON Activated in I Corps

April 12, 1967

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As part of Task Force OREGON, a reconnaissance platoon of the 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) observes artillery fire on a suspected enemy position, April 24, 1967. (National Archives)

MACV officially activates Task Force OREGON, which deploys to I Corps. The task force consists of multiple existing U.S. Army units from across South Vietnam. It replaces some Marines in southern I Corps, who move farther north to counter growing North Vietnamese threats near the DMZ. The task force conducts operations against guerrillas in the coastal plain and enemy bases in nearby mountains. Westmoreland later renames Task Force OREGON the 23d Infantry Division (Americal) on September 25.1

1Graham 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), 422–23; George L. MacGarrigle, Combat Operations: Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967, United States Army in Vietnam  (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1998), 206, 209, 213, 267.