The Box - Marc Levinson [179]
7. Westmoreland and Killen memorandum to the ambassador, March 12, 1965, Historians Background Material Files, MACV, RG 472, NACP; Joint Chiefs of Staff, Historical Division, The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1960–1968, Part II, pp. 21–23 and 21–28, Historical Division, Joint Secretariat, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Record 33179, VVA; Command History 1965, MACV, pp. 107–108 and 409.
8. Quarterly Command Report, Second Quarter, FY 1966, Classified Organizational History Files, 1st Logistical Command, Records of U.S. Army Pacific, RG 550, NACP; “MACV Fact Sheet,” June 19, 1965; MACV, Historians Background Material Files, Minutes of Mission Council Meetings of June 28, 1965, July 6, 1965, and July 13, 1965, NACP 472/270/75/33/03, Box 20; The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1960–1968, Part II, p. 21–25; telegram, Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Vietnam Coordinating Committee, August 8, 1965, in Mission Council Action Memorandums, 1965, Historians Background Material Files, MACV, RG 472, NACP; Talking Paper-End of Year Press Conference—Engineer Effort in Vietnam, December 21, 1965; Miscellaneous Memoranda, Historians Background Material Files 1965, MACV, RG 472, NACP.
9. Briefing for Secretary McNamara, Ambassador Lodge, General Wheeler, November 28, 1965, Historians Background Material Files, MACV, RG 472, NACP. The Military Sea Transportation Service had declared Vietnam to be a “danger area” on May 11, which entitled seamen to double pay for each day there plus additional bonuses if their ship was attacked or if a harbor was attacked while their ship was in port; see memorandum, Glynn Donaho, Commander, MSTS, to Secretary of Navy, May 11, 1965, in Monthly Reports, MSTS Command File, 1964–65, OAB/NHC. Ship diversions to Philippines from author’s telephone interview with Milton Stickles, June 1, 2004. Quotation about second-class ports from MACV Command History 1965, p. 118; congressional visit in MACV, Historians Background Material Files, 1965, NACP 472/270/75/33/1–2, box 8.
10. Sealift, March 1966, p. 14; Command History, 1965, p. 121, MACV, RG 472, NACP; “AB&T Employees Perform Critical Tasks in Vietnam,” Sealift, August-September 1969, p. 6; Lawson P. Ramage, “Reminiscences of Vice Admiral Lawson P. Ramage” (Annapolis, 1970), p. 535.
11. Command History 1965, p. 119, MACV, RG 472, NACP; Testimony of General Frank S. Besson Jr. to U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Government Operations, Military Operations Subcommittee, August 4, 1970, p. 53.
12. On palletization and other changes, see Highlights, U.S. Naval Operations Vietnam, January 1966, OAB/NHC. Quotation is from author’s interview with Robert N. Campbell, June 25, 1993.
13. Author’s interview with William Hubbard, August 10, 1993; and Ron Katims interview, COHP; Baltimore Sun, January 22, 1966.
14. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1960–1968, Part II, pp. 37–6 to 37–8; VVA, Record 33179; HQ MACV, Command History, 1965, NARA 472/270/75/32/6–7 Box 1, p. 231–2. Sea-Land had not been involved in the last major MSTS exercise before the Vietnam buildup, which was conducted entirely with breakbulk vessels; see Sealift, December 1964, p. 4, January 1965, p. 5, and March 1965, p. 13. A plan for container-ships to carry Conex containers is discussed in Alan F. Schoedel, “Viet Containership Plan Eyed,” JOC, January 26, 1966. The Okinawa contact is reported in Werner Bamberger, “Container Ships Sought for War,” NYT, May 26, 1966.
15. On Equipment Rental Inc., see Katims interview, COHP, and Operational Report-Lessons Learned for quarter ended July 31, 1966, Command Histories, 1st Logistics Command, USARV, RG 472, NACP. On Okinawa and Vietnam contracts,