Project Gutenberg 2025-04-19 Public domain in the USA. 508 Whitlow, Robert H. U.S. Marines In Vietnam, Volume 1 (of 9) : $b The advisory & combat assistance era 1954-1964 $aWashington :$bUSMC, $c1977. Brian Coe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "U.S. Marines In Vietnam, Volume 1 (of 9): The Advisory & Combat Assistance Era" is a historical account likely written in the late 20th century. The work documents the experiences and evolving role of the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam during the largely overlooked period from the end of the French-Indochina War to the mid-1960s. It focuses on the transition from early advisory missions to more active military assistance, providing context for how the Marines' involvement developed within the broader political and military shifts of the era. The opening of this volume establishes both its scope and methodology, beginning with a foreword and preface that explain its place as the first of a nine-part series chronicling Marine Corps actions in Vietnam. It provides a detailed geographical, demographic, and historical overview of Vietnam, describing its regions, peoples, and the extensive background leading up to U.S. involvement, including the fall of French Indochina, the rise of nationalist and Communist movements, and the early challenges in building a South Vietnamese government and military. Through early chapters, the narrative traces the formation of the Vietnamese Marine Corps, the arrival of U.S. Marine advisors, and the complex process of building an effective amphibious force amid political instability, insurgent threats, and organizational challenges—setting the stage for the deeper engagement that would follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/TheBitterEnd 20210225033350whitlow 1977 US Reading ease score: 52.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en United States. Marine Corps -- History -- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 DS Text Category: History - American Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: History - Warfare 832074 2025-07-30T05:49:49.927964 text/html 762242 2025-04-19T19:15:16 text/html 13041388 2025-07-30T05:50:14.388855 application/epub+zip 13043678 2025-07-30T05:49:56.408989 application/epub+zip 380179 2025-07-30T05:49:51.829000 application/epub+zip 28370784 2025-07-30T05:50:25.444787 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 28299313 2025-07-30T05:50:09.882918 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 632114 2025-07-30T05:49:47.078984 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 612122 2025-04-19T19:15:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15813 2025-07-30T05:50:25.692790 application/rdf+xml 6665 2025-07-30T05:49:52.276984 image/jpeg 1438 2025-07-30T05:49:52.098950 image/jpeg 15800950 2025-07-30T05:49:50.215960 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog