Operation Starlite, fought on the Van Tuong Peninsula in Vietnam, was the first time the U.S. Marines and the Viet Cong had a chance to take the measure of each other. Both learned a great deal about each other, and both concluded that the enemy was formidable. -- Adapted from the text.

"PCN 2015946788." "This pamphlet history, one in a series devoted to U.S. Marines in the Vietnam War, is published for the education and training of Marines by the History Division, Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia, as part of the U.S. Department of Defense observance of the fiftieth anniversary of that war."