Army of the Republic of Vietnam 1955–75 by Gordon L. Rottman

Author:Gordon L. Rottman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Army of the Republic of Vietnam 1955–75
ISBN: 9781780963631
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Airborne Division

Order of battle, 1974:

1 Airborne Brigade: 1, 8, & 9 Abn Bns, 1 Abn Arty Bn

2 Abn Bde: 5, 7, & 11 Abn Bns, 2 Abn Arty Bn

3 Abn Bde: 2, 3, & 6 Abn Bns, 3 Abn Arty Bn

4 Abn Bde: 4 & 10 Abn Bns

Abn Recon, Signal, Support, & Medical Bns; Abn Engineer Co; US

Abn Advisory Team 162

Vietnam’s first airborne companies were established in 1948 and attached to French Colonial parachute battalions. Beginning in 1951, the French organized Vietnamese parachute battalions (Tieu Doan Nhay Du, TDND, or Bataillons de Parachutistes Vietnamienne, BPVN), and brigaded them with French Chasseur, Colonial and Foreign Legion para units in Groupements Aéroportés as part of the CEFEO general reserve. Along with some ethnic-minority units from the northern highlands, these were the most effective battalions in the ANV.

The Vietnamese JGS would continue to employ its airborne forces in the general reserve role. On May 1, 1955, the 1, 3, 5, and 6 Abn Bns plus the Abn Support Bn were organized into the Abn Group (Lien Doan Nhay Du) based at Tan Son Nhut air base outside of Saigon, where its successor formations would remain. The group was expanded into the Abn Bde (Lu Doan Nhay Du) on December 1, 1959, with the addition of 7 and 8 Abn Bns, plus 1 and 2 Abn Task Force HQs (Chien Doan Nhay Du), and an artillery battalion. The Abn Div (Su Doan Nhay Du) was activated on December 1, 1965, numerous support and service units being raised along with 3 Abn TF. In 1969 the airborne TFs became brigades; an incomplete 4 Abn Bde was added in 1974.

The division or its elements fought in every part of South Vietnam over the years, both as reaction forces and conducting conventional ground operations.7 They fought in Cambodia in 1970–71, and from mid-1972 in northern MR I.

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