The United States began sending troops to Vietnam in a significant capacity in March 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the deployment of combat forces to support the South Vietnamese government against the communist Viet Cong. However, U.S. involvement in Vietnam had started earlier, with military advisors and support personnel being sent as early as the late 1950s. The troop presence escalated throughout the 1960s, peaking in 1969.
Vietnam. The last US troops left Vietnam in 1975.
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the aussies send troops to fight alongside the US
The US asked him to.
It authorized the president to send troops into battle
Why US troops at Thailand tdy's in Vietnam 1962?
President Ford had to send in US Marines and US Sailors to help evacuate Saigon in April 1975.
The US asked them to.
The United States never 'occupied' Vietnam. It was invited to send troops to support the government of South Vietnam in its attempts to deal with North Vietnamese aggression.
Eisenhower first dispatched US Troops to RVN in February 1955.
LBJ was the first US president to send conventional combat troops to RVN and the first president to begin openly bombing North Vietnam.