Roughly 8% (12 million of the 150 million) served in some branch of the US Military at some time during WW2.
See: Vietnam Time-line
Vietnam shifted the burden of the ground fighting from American troops to South Vietnamese troops during the later stages of the war. This was called "Vietnamization".
First ground troops were sent to Vietnam in 1965.
It was president Richard Nixon who finally pulled all U.S troops from Vietnam.
William Westmoreland requested combat troops after several serious setbacks against South Vietnamese forces. Eventually, there were over 500,000 Americans in Vietnam.
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See: Vietnam Time-line
Vietnam shifted the burden of the ground fighting from American troops to South Vietnamese troops during the later stages of the war. This was called "Vietnamization".
To stop communist aggression. To preserve the Republic of South Vietnam (from being conquered by North Vietnam).
Ground forces had been present in RVN since '55. Conventional combat troops were deployed in '65 after the Tonkin Gulf Incident in '64. The war went conventional in '65.
According to The Gilder lehrman report there were 385,300 troops
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Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford