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Ellsworth F. Bunker (May 11, 1894 – September 27, 1984) was an American businessman and diplomat who served as ambassador to Argentina, Italy, India, Nepal and South Vietnam. He is perhaps best known for being a hawk on the war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s.
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, CIA official William Colby, Komer's successor as head of CORDS and the new head of MACV, General Creighton Abrams, persuaded the South Vietnamese government to embark on an accelerated pacification program. The casualties suffered by the VC and the PAVN, during Tet and their subsequent offensives in 1968, enabled ...
This national historic site consists of three facilities: a visitor center and two significant Cold War-era sites; a launch control center; and a missile silo/launch facility, formerly operated by the 66th Strategic Missile Squadron of the 44th Strategic Missile Wing, headquartered at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Box Elder, near Rapid City.
At around 04:00, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, through an aide, contacted the head of Saigon police, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Luan, to ask for police reinforcements for the embassy. The First Precinct police commanding officer refused to move his men in the dark and instead asked the Americans to escort his men to the embassy.
U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker presented the 20 F-5As of the 10th Fighter Squadron (Commando) to Kỳ at Bien Hoa Air Base. These would form the RVNAF's first jet fighter squadron. [61]: 234–5 2–14 July. Operation Buffalo was a major operation that took place in the southern half of the DMZ, northeast of Con Thien.
Ellsworth Bunker – Political appointee March 13, 1951 May 8, 1951 March 12, 1952 Albert F. Nufer – Career FSO May 29, 1952 August 14, 1952 May 12, 1956 Willard L. Beaulac – Career FSO [13] May 10, 1956 June 1, 1956 August 2, 1960 Roy R. Rubottom, Jr. – Career FSO [14] August 27, 1960 October 20, 1960 October 19, 1961
Ellsworth Bunker: Non-career appointee Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 28, 1956 March 4, 1957 Left India, March 23, 1961 Also accredited to Nepal; resident at New Delhi. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on January 25, 1957. John Kenneth Galbraith: Non-career appointee
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