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1966 Time Line Index
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.4th Army
MP Corps
January to September
For Hood, Texas
720th
MACV
USARV
18th Bde.
89th Group
October to December
Republic of South Vietnam
720th
"We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." ~ President Lyndon B. Johnson, October 1964
Allied Troop levels In South Vietnam for 1966
South Vietnamese 735,900
American 385,300
Australian 4,530
New Zealand 160
South Korea 25,570
Philippines 2,060
Thailand 240
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U.S. Casualties 1966: 6,053 Killed (all categories), 29,992 Wounded, 61 Missing In Action

720th MP Battalion Casualties (Oct-Nov-Dec) 1966: 1 Killed In Action, WIA-complete statistics unavailable.

North Vietnamese Army & Viet Cong : 71,473 Killed, with 3,247 captured in action.
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