SOUTH VIETNAM: FIRST UNITED STATES TROOPS TO LEAVE VIETNAM RECEIVE VIETNAMESE AWARDS FOR BRAVERY

Record ID: 337067

  • Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: FIRST UNITED STATES TROOPS TO LEAVE VIETNAM RECEIVE VIETNAMESE AWARDS FOR BRAVERY
  • Date: 6th July 1969
  • Summary: TROOPS LINE UP; DIVISION SIGN "OLD RELIABLE"; MAJOR GENERAL HOLLIS AND LT-GEN. DO CAO TRI; HOLLIS AND GENERAL ROSSON SPEAKING. Initials KM/VS/MR/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st July 1969 13:00
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  • Location: DONG TAM, SOUTH VIETNAM
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Reuters ID: LVA1CAH2V0YKY58SCUSRCA32DJSS
  • Story Text: TROOPS OF THE UNITED STATES NINTH INFANTRY DIVISION, THE OLD RELIABLE, WERE PRESENTED WITH SOUTH VIETNAMESE AWARDS ON SATURDAY BY LIEUTENANT GENERAL DO CAO TRI. THE SPECIAL CEREMONY TOOK PLACE AT DONG TAM, SOUTHWEST OF SAIGON. THE MEN, WHO WILL LEAVE THE MEKONG DELTA NEXT WEEK, WILL BE THE FIRST AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO LEAVE VIETNAM UNDER PRESIDENT NIXON'S PLANNED TROOP WITHDRAWALS.

    THEY RECEIVED THE VIETNAMESE GALLANTRY CROSS WITH PALM, THE HIGHEST UNIT VALOUR AWARD, AND THE CIVIL ACTIONS HONOUR MEDAL WITH OAK LEAF. THE AWARDS WERE IN RECOGNITION OF THE DIVISION'S EXCEPTIONAL VALOUR AND EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE IN COMBAT AND FOR ITS ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN CIVIC ACTION SINCE ITS ARRIVAL IN SOUTH VIETNAM IN 1966.

    IT IS THE ONLY DIVISION TO RECEIVE A SECOND GALLANTRY CROSS WITH PALM. ON HAND FOR THE CEREMONY WERE MAJOR GENERAL HARRIS W. HOLLIS, COMMANDER OF THE DIVISION, AND GENERAL WILLIAM B. ROSSON.
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