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Records About Combat Incidents in Cambodia During the Vietnam Conflict

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The agency created the files in order to automate data on friendly and enemy initiated incidents in Cambodia following the 1970 U.S. and South Vietnamese Army's incursion into Cambodia.

Description

The data originated from the Daily Analysis of the Military Situation Report (DAMSREP), issued by the U.S. Defense Attache's Office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Staff in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense extracted data on the combat activity reported in the incident section of the DAMSREP.

U.S. m ilitary strategists studied the development of the Cambodian conflict, as indicated by these data, and reported their perception of the situation to the Cambodian government in Phnom Penh. This series contains information on incidents involving friendly and enemy military units operating in Cambodia during the Vietnamese Conflict and Cambodian War. There are approximately 50,000 incident records and each may have three types of data, referred to as "sets." The first type is the Control Set with the date of the Daily Analysis of the Military Situation Report (DAMSREP) message from which the information in the record was derived, and the incident number.

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The second type is the Fixed Set. It contains data on the date and location of the incident; involvement of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and/or the forces arm?es nationals khm?res (KHMER); initiator of incident; objective; enemy weapons used; Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and latitude and longitude coordinates; and enemy and friendly force nationality, unit number, and size. The third type is the Periodic Set, used for casualty data including information on the nationality or association and number of military officers and soldiers killed in action (KIA), wounded in action (WIA), missing in action (MIA), captured (CAP) or who rallied or deserted during the reported incident, and any narrative comments concerning the incident.

If there were no personnel in any of the above categories, the Periodic Set will not contain any data. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.

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