This is the fourth volume in a planned 10-volume operational and chronological series covering the U.
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The nature of the war facing III MAF during 1967 forced the authors to concentrate on Major operations, particularly those characterized by heavy combat.
There are additional chapters on supporting arms and logistics, and a discussion of the Marine role in Vietnam in relation to the overall American effort.
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.
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Navy\'s Seventh Fleet, and the services of Marines with the staff of the U.
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It also covers the Marine Corps participation in the advisory effort, the operations of the two Special Landing Forces of the U.
This volume, like its predecessors, concentrates on the ground war in I Corps and II I MAF\'s perspective of the Vietnam War as an entity.
The Force Logistic Command, amalgamated from all Marine logistics organizations in Vietnam, served all, Major Marine commands.
The 1st Marine Aircraft Wing provided air support to both divisions, as well as Army and allied units in I Corps.
Its enemy ranged from small groups of Viet Cong guerrillas in hamlets and villages up to formations as large as the 2d NVA Division.
The 1st Marine Division, concentrated in Thua Thien and Quang Nam provinces, continued both offensive and pacification operations.
Throughout the year, the 3d Marine Division fought a conventional, large-unit war against the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) near the demilitarized zone.
Army\'s Task Force Oregon and shifted the bulk of its forces-and its attention-northward.
III MAF, faced with a continued threat in 1967 of North Vietnamese large unit entry across the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Vietnams, turned over the Chu Lai enclave to the U .
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This volume details the change in focus of the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), which fought in South Vietnam\'s northernmost corps area, I Corps.
A separate topical series will complement the operational histories.
Marine Corps\' participation in the Vietnam War.
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This is the fourth volume in a planned 10-volume operational and chronological series covering the U
