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Article: Supporting DaNang: this article is reprinted from the December 1965 edition of the Navy Supply Corps Newsletter.(Da Nang, Vietnam)(Reprint)
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- Navy Supply Corps Newsletter
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- January 1, 2009
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Last spring, when Marine Corps units started pouring into the South Vietnamese I Corps area, the Seventh Fleet was assigned responsibility for providing them with logistical support through the port of DaNang.
On 15 October, Amphibious Logistical Support Group DaNang ceased to exist as a Seventh Fleet task group when it became Naval Support Activity DaNang under Commanding General III Marine Amphibious Force and the Commander Service force, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
In formal ceremonies at the activity's Camp Tien Sha, a former French Army compound, CAPT Kenneth P. Huff, USN, read the orders activating the Naval Support Activity and naming him as commanding ...