according to my marine boyfriend who did 3 tours in Vietnam, the president who succeeded John F. Kennedy (after he was assassinated), was Lyndon B. Johnson, or "lbj,' as he called, commited our American troops to the Vietnam conflict. august 3, 1964, was the date when my boyfriend arrived for combat duty from saigon aboard the uss maddox dd731.
LBJ was the first US president to send conventional combat troops to RVN and the first president to begin openly bombing North Vietnam.
Eisenhower sent the first official US troops over there on or about 11 February 1955.
Lyndon Johnson The first president to send a fighting force into Vietnam was President Lyndon B. Johnson although President Dwight D. Eisenhower sported the French in the First Indochina War with navy and air support no actual forces had set food inside Vietnam
Several: Dwight D Eisenhower (1952-60) was President when the US first sent military advisors to Vietnam, followed by John F Kennedy (1961-63); Lyndon B Johnson (1963-68), who first sent combat troops; Richard M Nixon (1969-74), who withdrew all combat troops under intense pressure from Congress and the public; and Gerald R Ford (1974-76), who was President when North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam.
Believe it or not, the first troops into Vietnam were not conventional troops. They were actually the Green Berets, or the 10th Special Operations Forces. They were there to train the South Vietnamese to fight the Guerrilla Vietcong in South Vietnam. They first went in country in the 1950's.
President Eisenhower.
President Dwight Eisenhower
LBJ was the first US president to send conventional combat troops to RVN and the first president to begin openly bombing North Vietnam.
Lyndon Johnson was the president when large numbers of US troops were first sent to Vietnam.
deploy combat troops to vietnam
The first "advisors" were sent by President Eisenhower on 12 February 1955. On 13 May 1961 President Kennedy sent the first Special Forces troops to Vietnam. In March of 1965 President Johnson sent in two Marine Infantry Battalions.
Eisenhower sent the first official US troops over there on or about 11 February 1955.
Lyndon Johnson :) hope I helped!!!! Have a good day!
Lyndon Johnson The first president to send a fighting force into Vietnam was President Lyndon B. Johnson although President Dwight D. Eisenhower sported the French in the First Indochina War with navy and air support no actual forces had set food inside Vietnam
Several: Dwight D Eisenhower (1952-60) was President when the US first sent military advisors to Vietnam, followed by John F Kennedy (1961-63); Lyndon B Johnson (1963-68), who first sent combat troops; Richard M Nixon (1969-74), who withdrew all combat troops under intense pressure from Congress and the public; and Gerald R Ford (1974-76), who was President when North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam.
Believe it or not, the first troops into Vietnam were not conventional troops. They were actually the Green Berets, or the 10th Special Operations Forces. They were there to train the South Vietnamese to fight the Guerrilla Vietcong in South Vietnam. They first went in country in the 1950's.
The city on the coast of south Vietnam where the first US troops landed was Da Nang.