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==January== ; 1 January At the beginning of 1966, the number of U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam totaled 184,314.〔"Vietnam War Timeline: 1965" http://www.vietnamgear.com/war1965.aspx, accessed 11 Oct 2014〕 South Vietnamese military forces totaled 514,000 including the army (ARVN) and the Regional Force and Popular Force (the "Ruff-Puffs") militias.〔Summers, Jr., p. 36〕 The North Vietnamese army numbered 400,000, most still in North Vietnam. 50,000 North Vietnamese cadre and soldiers infiltrated South Vietnam during 1965. Group 559, charged with transporting supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to supply communist troops in both South Vietnam and Laos, numbered 24,400 personnel.〔''Military History of Vietnam'', pp. 164-171〕 The U.S. estimated the number of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army (PAVN) soldiers in South Vietnam at nearly 280,000 by June 1966, including part-time guerrillas.〔 Adams, p. 63〕 A bombing pause of North Vietnam had been announced by President Johnson on December 24 and was in effect. ; 3 January The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bombarded a Special Forces Civilian Irregular Defense Group camp at Khe Sanh Combat Base near the DMZ of South Vietnam with 120mm mortars, the heaviest weapon they had used in the War. Defending the combat base were American and South Vietnamese Special Forces, Nung and Bru (Montagnard) irregulars, and Ruff-Puff militia.〔Prados, John (2004), ''Valley of Death: The Siege of Khe Sanh'', Annapolis: US Naval Institute Press, pp 37-44. ISBN 1591146968〕 ; 8–14 January Operation Crimp also known as the Battle of the Ho Bo Woods—was a joint US-Australian military operation during the Vietnam War in the Ho Bo Woods, north of Cu Chi in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, about north-east of Saigon. The operation was a minor tactical success for the Australian and U.S. armies but the Viet Cong soon returned to the area and it continued to function as a base area for them until 1970.〔Coulthard-Clark, p. 280〕 ;January 28 – March 6 Operation Masher was a combined U.S., South Vietnamese (ARVN), and Korean (ROKA) operation in Binh Dinh province. The name "Operation Masher" was changed to "Operation White Wing", because Masher was deemed too crude for 'nation-building' by the White House. Masher failed to result in any decisive victories by the allies, but temporarily disrupted NVA/VC control of the rural areas of the province. Masher and subsequent operations in Binh Dinh created large numbers of refugees who fled their homes to escape the fighting.〔Krepinevich, Jr., pp. 222-223〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1966 in the Vietnam War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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