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Marine Aircraft Group 15 Deploys to Da Nang

April 6, 1972

1972-04-06_MAG-15_patch
1972-04-06_MAG-15_patch
Insignia of Marine Aircraft Group 15.

Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 15 deploys to Da Nang. It serves as air support for the South Vietnamese armed forces and U.S. troops combating the Easter Offensive. MAG 15 operates under the Seventh Air Force.1

1Wayne Courtright C TR,  CHRONOLOGY OF KEY MARINE CORPS EVENTS IN THE VIETNAM WAR, 1962–1975 (Reference Branch USMC History Division 8/30/2013); Charles D. Melson and Curtis G. Arnold, U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The War that Would Not End, 1971–1973 (Washington, D.C.: Marine Corps History and Museums Division, 1991), 248–49, 285.