Executive Order 11255—Designation of Vietnam and Waters Adjacent Thereto as an Overseas Combat Area for Purposes of Armed Forces Mailing Privileges
Pursuant to the authority vested in me by sections 4169 and 4303 of title 39 of the United States Code, I hereby designate for the purposes of those sections, as an overseas combat area where the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged in military operations involving armed conflict with a hostile foreign force:
Vietnam, including the waters adjacent thereto within the following described limits: From a point on the East Coast of Vietnam at the juncture of Vietnam with China southeastward to 21° N Lat., 108° 15' E Long.; thence southward to 18° N Lat., 108° 15' E Long.; thence southeastward to 17° 30' N Lat., 110° 45' E Long.; thence southward to 11° N Lat. 110° 45' E Long.; thence southwestward to 7° N Lat. 105° E Long.; thence westward to 7° N Lat. 103° E Long.; thence northward to 9° 30' N Lat. 103° E Long.; thence northeastward to 10° 15' N Lat. 104° 27' E Long.; thence northward to a point on the West Coast of Vietnam at the juncture of Vietnam with Cambodia.
NOTE: Executive Order 11255 was not filed with the Office of the Federal Register before the cutoff time of this issue. As printed above, it follows the text of the press release distributed by the Office of the White House Press Secretary at Austin, Tex.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Executive Order 11255—Designation of Vietnam and Waters Adjacent Thereto as an Overseas Combat Area for Purposes of Armed Forces Mailing Privileges Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/305787