Martin, General Maurice (French), 37
Martin, Vice Admiral Harold M., App. I
Marxism, 160; see also Communism
Massigli, René, 262

Matthews, Francis P., 156, 174, 177, App. I
Mayer, René, 203, 207

McCain, Vice Admiral John S., 48

McCormack, General James, USAF, 362n
McCormick, Lynde D., App. I

McDermut (DD-677), 359–60
McDill, Captain Alexander S., 89
McElroy, Neil, 363, 366

Meade-Johnson Company, 296

Medical activities, 109, 277-78, 282-86, 295–
96

Medical Agency, Defense Department, 366
Mediterranean, Commander in Chief (British),
68

Mediterranean naval operations, 68-69, 77-81,
142-43, 170; see also Sixth Fleet

Mediterranean, United States Naval Forces, 77,
79, 141-42

Mekong, Commander Naval Forces (French),
137

Mekong Delta, 9, 11, 17, 45, 94-98, 226
Mekong River, 3, 5, 7, 18, 37

Melby, John, 182

Menard (APA-201), 276

Mendèz-France, Pierre, 265, 314

Merrick (AKA-97), 340

Meynier, Commander Robert (French), 47

Michael (King of Rumania), 148

Michels, Commander Ralph J., 183
Midway (CVA-41), 349, 358

Midway Battle, 47

MIG-17 aircraft, 358

Miles, Rear Admiral Milton E., 46 (photo), 47
Military Affairs Committee, 75, 147
Military Aid Program, 142, 154–55

Military aid (United States), 142-43, 179,
301; see also China, People's Republic of;
Soviet Union

to French Indochina, 87, 89, 160–79, 183–
84, 203, 219–22, 225-26, 242, 249,
256, 265-66

to Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1959, 328-
30, 332-35, 337-39, 341-43

to Southeast Asia, 180-83

to State of Vietnam, 1949-1955, 174,
307-10, 312-15, 321

Military Air Transportation Service, 151
Military Assistance Advisory Groups, 178, 222
Cambodia, 308

Formosa, 222

Indochina, 221, 226, 249, 314, 335

Thailand, 221

Vietnam, 338, 371, 373-74

Military Assistance Coordinating Committee,
Defense Department, 176

Military Assistance, Office of, Defense Depart-
ment, 168

Military Defense Assistance Program, 174
Military Group, Joint State-Defense Survey Mis-
sion, 182

Military Petroleum Supply Agency, 366
Military Sea Transportation Service, 158, 230,
272-73

Military Support Mission, 321; see also Train-
ing Relations Instruction Mission
Military Traffic Management Agency, 366
Miller, Captain Theodore T., App. I

Miller, Commander G.W., 248
Mindoro, Philippines, 49

Mine Squadron 106, 107-08

Minesweeping, 58, 66, 88–90, 106–09, 228;
see also Mine warfare

Mine warfare, 45-48, 58, 66, 73, 93, 217; see

also Minesweeping

Ming Dynasty, 3, 22

Minh Mang, 11–12

Ministry of Rites Vietnamese, 31

Missionaries, 9-18, 24

Missouri (BB-63), 78 (photo), 79, 84

Mitscher, Vice Admiral Marc, 77

Mobile Riverine Force, United States, 98, 128
Moffat, Abbot L., 121

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 224

Mon Cay, 169, 180

Mongols, 8

Monguillon, Ensign (French), 263

Monsoons, 3-4, 12, 129, 134–37, 188

Montague (AKA-98), 276-77 278 (photo),
280

Montfort, Commando unit (French), 239, 241
de Montigny, Louis Charles, 15

Montrail (APA-213), 276

Montrose (APA-212), 276, 280, 287

Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 33
Mothersill, Captain P.W., 275

Mouette, operation, 222-23
Mountbatten, Admiral Lord Louis (British),
50, 88-92, 98, 100, 111, 115
Moutet, Marius, 122

Mullany (DD-528), 340

Munitions Board, 144, 154, 168, 211, 213
Muscat, 11

Mutual Defense Assistance Act, 1949, 167-69
Mutual Defense Assistance Program, 182, 334
aid to French in Indochina, 173–79, 226,
242, 272, 288

establishment of, 167-69

My, Le Quang; see Le Quang My
My Tho, 95-96, 307, 343, 371

Nagasaki, Japan, 52

N

Nam Dinh, 126–28, 133, 187, 297

Nanking, China, 165
Nan Yueh, 4-5
Napoléon III, 15

Nash, Frank, 203

Nasser, General Abdel (Egypt), 350
National Defense Act of 1947, 214, 367
National Defense Establishment, 146
National Democratic Front, 148
National Liberation Committee, 83
National Liberation Front, 81

National Military Establishment, 143-46, 151,
153-54; see also organization, Defense De-
partment

National Peasant Party, 148

National Press Club, 170

National Security Act of 1947, 143-47, 149,
151, 153

National Security Agency, 210-11

National Security Council, 301, 309

establishment, 74, 146

organization, 152, 356

regarding Communism in Southeast Asia,

170-71, 190, 234

National Security Organization, 153
National Security Resources Board, 146
Nautilus (SSN-571), 353

Naval Advisory Group, Philippines, 143

Naval Affairs Committees, U.S. Congress, 147
Naval Air Transport Service, 151

Naval Amphibious Force (French), 123

Naval Arsenal, Saigon, 338

Naval Assault Divisions (French); see Dinas-

sauts

Naval Attaches, 168

Naval Attache, Vietnam, 374

Naval Beach Group 1, 275

Naval Division, Far East (French), 123, 137

Naval Forces, 60

Naval Forces (French),

Far East, 123, 180, 336-37

Indochina, 123

Naval Forces (United States),

Atlantic, 141

Far East, 141, 178, 236, 274, 288
Mediterranean, 77, 79, 141-42
Northwest African Waters, 68, 77
Pacific, 76, 141-42, 148, 157
Philippines, 273

Naval Group China, United States, 47

Naval Infantry River Flotilla (French), 96-97,
100

Naval Inspector General, 215

Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake,
California, 358

Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, 215

Naval presence, 68–69, 79–80, 350

Naval School, Nha Trang, 329

Naval Technical Service, Vietnamese, 374

Naval Training Center, Nha Trang, 199
(photo), 317

Navarre, General Henri (French), 207, 222,
224-25, 242-43, 256; see also Navarre Plan
Dien Bien Phu, 223, 244, 249, 253–54,
256-60

Operation Atlante, 237, 239

Navarre Plan, 207-10, 225, 244

Navy Department, 55, 63-64, 76; see also
organization

Navy Mobile Construction Battalions (SEA-
BEES), 58-59

Navy Mobile Training Team, 175

Navy Section, Military Assistance Advisory
Group, Indochina, 179, 226

Netherlands, 9, 36; see also British-Dutch re-
lations

Netherlands East Indies, 148
New Caledonia, 20

"New Look," 210, 216

New Zealand, 205, 254, 302

Nghe An Province, 31, 131, 316, 346
Nghia Lo, 191

Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919, 28
Parsons, Captain William S., Jr., 52

"Passage to Freedom," 265, 270-99; 278-79,
281, 284, 289, 295 (photos)
Pathet Lao forces, 207, 265
Pattie, Captain Samuel, App. I
Pattle Island, 339–40

Paymaster School (French), 200
Peacock (sloop), 11-12

Pearl Harbor, 35

Pearl Harbor Attack, 1941, 25, 42–43, 45, 54

Pei Shan Island, 350

Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, 257

Pentagon; see Defense Department

Pentagon Papers; see United States-Vietnam
Relations

Percival, Captain John, 12, 14

Perfume River; see Huong River

Permanent Military Committee, 197, 227
Perry, Commodore Matthew C., 14
Persian Gulf, 1

Pescadores, 22, 25

Pétain, Marshal Henri Philippe (French), 37
Pfizer, Charles, Company, 296

Pham Van Dong, 34, 43

Phan Boi Chau, 32
Phan Rang Bay, 46

Phan Thiet, 292

Phat Diem, 134, 272, 296

Phat Giao Hoa Hao; see Hoa Hao

Philippine Islands, 1, 41, 43, 76, 143, 182,
254, 302

Philippine Sea (CV-47), 260, 267–68, 356
Philippine Sea Campaign, 48

Philippines, United States Naval Forces, 273
Phillips, Vice Admiral William K., 236-37,
247-48, 253, 262–63, 267, 348
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3-5, 94-95
Phong Dinh Province, 95, 371

Phu Doan; see Doan Hung

Phu Ly, 222

Phu Nho Quan, 223

Phuoc Le, 292

Phuoc Long Province, 344
Phu Quoc Island, 341, 345

Phu Tho, 192, 222, 291

Phu Yen Binh, 193

Pine Island (AV-12), 345

Piraeus, Greece, 80 (photo), 81

Pirate, operation, 194

Piscatague (TAOG-80), 287
Plain of Jars, 207

Plain of Reeds, 331

Platte (AO-24), 261 (photo)
Pleven, René,176, 219
Plymouth (sloop), 14

Point Cambodia; see Cape Camau

Poland, 36, 68, 148, 352

Polaris submarine, 354, 362

Pondichery, 10

Porterfield (DD-682), 248

Port Lyautey, 351

Port Said, Egypt, 351

Portugal, 9, 81

Post Graduate School, Monterey, California,

374

Potsdam Conference, 1945, 87-88

Poulo Condore; see Con Son

Preliminary Agreement, 1946 (to end hos-

tilities in Tonkin), 116–17

President, Office of the, 57, 108, 144-46, 212-
13

President's Special Committee on Indo-China,
252

Preventive Medicine and Sanitation Unit, 285

Pride, Vice Admiral Alfred M., 236, 348–49,
App. I

Prince of Wales (British), 43
Princess Beatrix (British), 93
Princeton (CVS-37), 359-60
Privateer aircraft, 183, 258, 263
Propaganda, 45, 91, 117, 201
Providence (CL-82), 79

Provisional Republican Government of Viet-
Nam, 44

Radford, Admiral Arthur W., 178, 205, 210,
221, 236, 250 (photo), 341, App. I

possible United States role in French-Viet
Minh War, 190, 247, 249-54, 259–62

Ramsey, Admiral Dewitt C., App. I
Rance (French), 179, 239
Randolph (CVA-15), 351

Rebuffel, Rear Admiral G. L. J. (French), 194
Récher, Captain Jean (French), 318, 325, 332
Reclaimer (ARS-42), 287

Recruit Training Center, Nha Trang, 198-99
Red Cross, 277

Red River, 4, 8, 21, 103, 185

as trade route, 18-19
geographic location, 127, 172

operations on during French-Viet Minh
War, 132, 184, 192, 226

Red River Delta

operations in during French-Viet Minh
War, 177, 184-88, 196, 207, 226, 254
population migration into, 4–5

Red Sea, 1

Reed, Charles S., 162

Refugee camps, 282-86

Refugees; see "Passage to Freedom"

Regulations, Naval, 55

Religion,

Christianity in Vietnam, 9, 11, 14–15, 17,
19, 272, 305

Sects in Vietnam, 134, 319, 321

Renville (APA-227), 148

Renville Agreement, 148

Reorganization Plan No. 6, 213, 353

Repulse (British), 43

Research and Development, 70, 353, 362, 368

Research and Development Board, 144, 154,

211, 213

Revers, General Georges (French), 177

Reynard, Paul, 253

de Rhodes, Father Alexandre, 9-10
Richardson, Admiral James O., 62
Richelieu (French), 93, 98

Ring, Rear Admiral Stanhope C., 248
Rittenhouse, Captain (British), 275-76, 288
River Assault Group (French), 97 (photo)
River Force (Vietnamese), 323, 329, 343
Riverine warfare, 7, 227; see also Dinassauts
French, 1, 18-20, 22, 94-100, 123-29,
132-33, 184-85, 186 (photo), 187-
89, 192 (photo), 193, 228, 229
(photo)

Vietnamese during Civil War with Sects,

323-24, 326-28, 330-32

Riviére, Captain Henri (French), 20, 125
Robert Island, 339-40

Roberts, Edmund, 11-12

Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 362

Rockefeller Committee, 215, 363

Rockefeller, Nelson A., 211

Roosevelt, Elliott, 84

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 42, 50, 55, 62n, 84-87,
145

Ross, Commander James E., 315
Routes (Vietnam),

1, 101, 239, 241

3, 101

4, 95-96, 101, 132, 176, 180
6, 189
7, 241

12, 223

Rowell, Lieutenant General Sir Sidney F. (Aus-
tralian), 264 (photo)

Rozhdestvenski, Vice Admiral Zinovi P. (Rus-
sian), 25-26

Rumania, 69, 148

Rung Sat, 326, 327 (photo)

Russia; see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, 25-26
Ryujo (Japanese), 43

S

Sabin, Rear Admiral Lorenzo S., 273-76, 281,

286, 288, 289 (photo), 290, 292, 294

Sa Dec, 371

Saigon, 3, 11, 23 (photo), 184, 230

French occupation in nineteenth century,
17-18

in World War II, 40, 42, 45-46, 48
"Passage to Freedom", 290-94

reestablishment of Allied control, 1945,
91-94, 97-98

shipyard in, 226, 342, 345

St. Angelo, Captain Augustus R., 297

Sainteny, Jean, 103–04, 113–14

Saipan (CVL-48), 256, 257 (photo)

Sakhalin, 66

Salan, General Raoul (French), 189, 191–93,

203, 207-08

Salem (CA-134), 351

Salisbury Sound (AV-13), 359-60

Sallada, Vice Admiral Harold B., App. I
Salonika, Greece, 81

Saltonstall, Leverett, 153

Sam Neua, 207

Sangley Point, Philippines, 143, 237-39
Saratoga (CVA-60), 356

Sarnoff, David, 211

Sasebo, Japan, 218

Saunders, Captain Willard, 230
Sauterelle, operation, 194, 196

Savorgnan de Brazza (French), 120, 185, 194,
196

School for Law and Administration, Hanoi, 305
Scientific Research and Development, Office of,
70

SEABEES; see Navy Mobile Construction Bat-
talions

Sea Force (Vietnamese), 336, 343-44, 374
Sea Otter aircraft, 137

SEATO; see Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza-
tion

2nd Armored Division (French), 93

2nd Division, United States, 231
Secretary of Defense, 56, 169, 215

Defense Reorganization Act, 1958, 363-
64

establishment of, 151-55

Reorganization Plan No. 6, 210-14
under 1947 reorganization, 144-47

Secretary of State, 146

Secretary of the Navy, 56, 63, 155
Secretary of War, 60

Secretary's Committee of Research on Reorgani-

zation, 210

Sects; see Religion

Senate bills,

S.84, 74

S.1482, 74

S.1702, 74

S.2044, 75

Senate Committee on Military Affairs, 74
Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, 75
Senegalais (French), 89, 93, 103

Service Force, United States Pacific Fleet, 218
Services of Supply, 59

Service Squadron 3, 286

Seventh Fleet, 63, 65, 141, 173, 218, 236, 260,
351, 361

and Chinese threats against Taiwan, 267,
348-50, 357-59

immediate postwar operations off Chinese
coast, 66-67, 76-77

in Korean War, 178, 216

"Passage to Freedom," 269, 294

Philippines-Indonesia Crisis, 1958, 355-

56

withdrawal of Chinese troops from Indo-
china, 105, 110-11

Seventh Fleet Amphibious Forces, 67, 105
Seventh Task Fleet, 157, 159

Seventh World Congress, Communist Inter-
national, 33

Shanghai, China, 32, 142, 165

Sharps (AKL-10), 287

Sherman, Admiral Forrest P., 63, 76, 146, 156,

159, 175 App. I

Shields (DD-596), 248

Ship Repair Facility, Subic Bay, 339
Ship Characteristics Board, 155
Shook, Captain Kenneth S., App. I
Short, Commodore Edwin T., 105, 107, 109
Shumann, Maurice, 263

Siam, 10-12, 17-18, 22; see also Thailand
Sidewinder missile, 358

Singapore, 1, 14, 35–36, 41, 43, 45
Sino-French Accords, 1946, 111-13
Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895, 25

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, 35

Sixth Fleet, 170, 350-52, 357; see also Medi-

terranean naval operations

60th Army (Chinese), 116

62nd Army (Chinese), 106, 110
Skymaster aircraft, 267

Skyraider aircraft, 268

Smedberg, Captain William R., III, 244
Smith, Walter Bedell, 262, 266-67
Soirap River, 326

Solomons campaign, 47
Somali (French), 89, 93