The website Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall lists the casualties in chronological order.
The US during the American VN War.
1969
The French war came first (1946-1954).
Various reasons. If you go by American involvement in Vietnam, the dates will be different than the entire war itself. There was also a matter of secrecy as to just how long the US had been involved in Vietnam. For example, the first Special Forces soldier to die in Vietnam (Captain Harry Cramer, 1SFG) was killed in October of 1957, and his name was left off of the Vietnam Wall when it was unveiled in 1982, because the US government did not want to make it publicly known just how early on they had been involved in Vietnam.
Truman
Ike was the wars first commander in chief.
US troops first took offensive actions in battleground in 1965. However military advisers were involved since 1950.
The First Indochina War or the French-Indocina War.
he did not want the Vietnam war to start in the first place, but a bunch of rednecks ameriicans disagreed with him, and he ended up getting assassinated by a Jew .
There were no American deaths in Vietnam during the administration of Harry Truman. The first deaths occurred in 1959 under Eisenhower.
First ground troops were sent to Vietnam in 1965.