US Servicemen had been fighting communists in South Vietnam since 1955.
Approximately 500,000 servicemen were in Vietnam in 1968.
Vietnam
That was President Lyndon Johnson.
Conventional forces in large numbers began arriving in country in '65.
By the end of 1965, the United States had 184,300 troops in Vietnam.
Why US troops at Thailand tdy's in Vietnam 1962?
Approximately 2,594,000 US servicemen served in the Vietnam War.
See: Vietnam Time-line
Vietnam. The last US troops left Vietnam in 1975.
The US asked them to.
US Servicemen had been fighting communists in South Vietnam since 1955.
President Eisenhower sent US troops to Vietnam in 1955, President Ford pulled out the last US troops in 1975.
No.
The US.
Approximately 500,000 servicemen were in Vietnam in 1968.
The city on the coast of south Vietnam where the first US troops landed was Da Nang.