The flight time from California, US, to the nearest airport in Vietnam is approximately 16 hours and 40 minutes.
The total distance is approximately 13667.10 km or 8492 miles.
This flight time is approximate. Factors such as weather conditions could affect the flight time.
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Look at a map and compare the sizes of the two nations. The current nation of Vietnam is only about the size of California (at least in shape anyway), and the US is MORE THAN fifty times larger than California, since Alaska alone is bigger than half the continental United States.
The Vietnam war was a warm part of the cold war.
African-Americans during the 1960s called Vietnam "the White Man's War"; because the US wanted to stop communism there, but were drafting African-Americans (and all other US males) to fight it.
Conquest. the united states saw that japan was taking over north Vietnam and that would become communists and we did not like that. so we went into Vietnam to free north Vietnam of the Japanese.
Lt. Col. Harold Gregory Moore, also known as Hal Moore, served in the entire Vietnam Conflict. He is also the recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion or merit (three times), and the Bronze Star/Medal (four times, three of which for valor). He has five children and 12 grand-children. He was married to the late Julia Compton-Moore, who died in 2004.