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By June of 1965, 50,000 American troops had arrived in Vietnam, and by the end of that year, 180,000 Americans were serving there. As American involvement increased abroad, opposition to the war ...

In 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. It was the first deployment of a large U.S. ground combat ...

To honor those who served, the Veterans Museum Broomfield and the City and County of Broomfield are sponsoring a daylong ...

Search and Destory From 1965, the American military began a policy of sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers were ...

Marine veteran Joe North, of Las Vegas, an ex-prisoner-of-war who escaped his captors in 1965. “The Vietnam War was not lost on the battlefield. It was lost at home by the politicians and the ...

The Vietnam War most directly affected those young men eligible for military service. Between 1965-72, about 154,000 men of draft age lived in Cuyahoga County. Local statistics for military service ...