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Philippine Civic Action Group Leaves Vietnam

February 15, 1970

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Dr. Alberto Soteco of the Philippine Civic Action Group examines a South Vietnamese villager in an area with high levels of Viet Cong activity near the Cambodian border, August 24, 1966. (National Archives)

Some members of the Philippine Congress exert political pressure on Filipino leaders to withdraw the Philippine Civic Action Group (PHILCAG), citing its cost, especially after U.S. officials decline to fully finance the group. The final elements of PHILCAG leave Vietnam on February 15. About 130 Filipino doctors, dentists, and technicians remain in Vietnam as part of the Philippine Contingent, Vietnam. By this date, nine Filipinos have died in action in the war.1

Spencer C. Tucker, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2nd edition; Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 906–8; Stanley Robert Larsen and James Lawton Collins, Jr., Allied Participation in Vietnam, Vietnam Studies (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1985), 71–76.