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US Troops in Vietnam: The Arrival

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The Vietnam War (article) | 1960s America - Khan Academy

The Vietnam War was a prolonged military conflict that started as an anticolonial war against the French and evolved into a Cold War confrontation between ...

Highlighting History: How "Tet" Began the End of Vietnam

In the first few years of the Vietnam War, there had been decreased fighting around the holiday, so U.S. troops and its allied forces thought ...

US combat troops enter Vietnam for first time in 1965 - Chron

On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang, joining 23,000 American military advisers ...

Tunnel Rats of the Vietnam War

The Army faced two different threats in the Vietnam War, preventing it from focusing on exceptional performance in either conventional or unconventional ...

Vietnam War 1965-1968 - The History Place

March 8, 1965 - The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. They join ...

American Forces Leave Vietnam, Fifty Years Ago This Week

On March 29, 1973, the last American combat soldier, Master Sgt. Max Beilke, left Vietnam, completing the American military withdrawal.

Vietnam Veterans

United States military involvement in the Vietnam War officially began on August 5, 1964; however, the first U.S. casualty in Vietnam occurred on July 8, 1959.

Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam

Seven years ago, President Kennedy sent 16,000 military personnel to Vietnam as combat advisers. Four years ago, President Johnson sent American combat forces ...

Vietnam War 1962–75 | Australian War Memorial

Australia eventually responded with 30 military advisers, dispatched as the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), also known as "the ...

The Vietnam War: Ia Drang Valley - Bill of Rights Institute

Commanding General William C. Westmoreland worried that without combat troops to provide security, American air bases in South Vietnam would remain highly ...

Medal of Honor Monday: Army Sgt. 1st Class Sammy Lee Davis

When a huge wave of Viet Cong troops threatened to overwhelm Army Sgt. 1st Class Sammy Lee Davis' battalion at a small fire base in Vietnam, ...

Today, 54 years ago, Marines were the first US combat troops to ...

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50th Anniversary of Vietnam War | house.gov

Enter your zip code: Look up. Representatives ... The day marked 50 years since the deployment of the first American combat troops. ... The speaker recognized the ...

Vietnam timeline - Galesburg Register Mail

March 8, 1965: The first U.S. combat units arrive in Vietnam. ... war in Vietnam ... The last U.S. combat soldier leaves Vietnam, but military ...

When Did the U.S. Send the First Troops to Vietnam? - ThoughtCo

On March 8, 1965, President Johnson deployed 3500 U.S. Marines near Da Nang in South Vietnam, signaling the first U.S. troops' arrival in Vietnam.

Britain's secret role in the brutal US war in Vietnam - Declassified UK

Throughout 1962 and 1963 the US poured money and military equipment into South Vietnam while US 'advisers' “daily accompanied the Vietnamese ...

Armed Forces | Vietnam War | Pritzker Military Museum & Library

The Marine Corps had begun providing assistance and advisement to the South Vietnamese in the late 1950s, and their mission expanded gradually through the early ...

The Battle of Ia Drang Valley - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

Elements of the Army's 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) entered the first major land battle of the war at landing zones X-Ray and Albany, which would turn out ...

The U.S. Military and the Herbicide Program in Vietnam - NCBI

According to official records, U.S. military advisory assistance to Vietnam began as early as 1950, during the First French-Indochina War; 128 personnel "spaces ...