From Introduction: For the past 12 months the men of 8th Transportation Group (Motor Transport) on numerous occasions have had the opportunity to tell their story of how they conducted military line-haul operations over the longest line of communications in Vietnam. The methods and techniques developed out of experience and lessons learned, have provided entirely new concepts of security and operating logistical convoys in an active hostile environment. From Part II. History of Group: It was at Fort Lewis that the 8th trained for what would prove to be its finest hour - convoy operations over a troubled, guerilla infested road net along Vietnam's Coastal Plain and Central Highlands. On 24 September 1966 the men of the 8th boarded the USNS Leroy Eltinge at Oakland, California. Less than a month later - on 19 October 1966 - the 8th was in Vietnam. Establishing headquarters in the coastal fishing and farming center of Qui Nhon, the 8th assumed operational control of three truck battalions - the 27th and 54th at Qui Nhon and the 124th at Pleiku. The mission, on the surface, sounded simple enough: provide motor transport support to tactical force in the II Corps Tactical Zone. But the 8th was to find a set of obstacles confronting them totally unlike any encountered by any other group of truckers in the history of modern warfare.

Annual History Collection - Unit

Introduction -- History of Group -- News Releases and Stories -- Pictorial Review -- Recommendation for Presidential Unit Citation (Army) -- Convoy Security