"The First Infantry Division in Vietnam" Volume 3 covering the year of 1969, edited by William Geist, US Department of The Army, fully illustrated with drawings, and photographs developed by the photo laboratory of the 121st Signal Battalion. Published by US Department of The Army, 1969.

Embossed hard boards [a little wear and soiling]; gilt lettering on front board and spine; large and heavy volume: 10.1/4" x 12.1/4"; illustrated endpapers, unpaginated c. 400 pages on heavy paper with hundreds of photographs (all pages are illustrated), the list of Medal of Honor Winners, the service cross winners 1969, and 11 page long list of the "First Infantry Division soldiers who gave their lives during 1969" at the end of the book.

The 1st Infantry Division was one of the first two divisions sent to defend the Republic of Vietnam in 1965. For five years the Big Red One fought main force Viet Cong (VC) and regular North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces in the jungles northwest of Saigon. It suppressed enemy infiltration along the Highway 13 corridor to Cambodia and sought to clear the enemy from its bases in the heavy jungle of the Iron Triangle and near the Michelin Plantation. The Division made innovative use of air mobile operations, fire bases, combined arms operations and civic action. It helped take the fight back to the enemy in the wake of the 1968 Tet Offensive, an intense combat environment in which even the commanding general would be a casualty. On September 13, 1968, division commanding general MG Keith L. Ware and his aides were killed in action when their helicopter was shot down near Loc Ninh. With the 1969 policy of pacification and Vietnamization, the 1st Infantry Division returned to the United States in 1970 to its former home at Fort Riley, Kansas.

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