1973; one of Nixon's 3 phases of withdrawal: We'll cease fire, get our POW's back, then leave the country.
The US during the American VN War.
Conventional forces in large numbers began arriving in country in '65.
The modern Socialist Republic of Vietnam became independent in 1954. However, the first Vietnamese states started in North Vietnam in 938 C.E. with the independent Ngo Dynasty.
Communists.
Missionaries
The website Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall lists the casualties in chronological order.
The US during the American VN War.
1969
Truman
Gary Wayne Foster has written: 'Phantom in the river' -- subject(s): Prisoners of war, Prisoners and prisons, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, American Aerial operations, Campaigns, Phantom II (Jet fighter plane), Biography
The prisoners on the First Fleet were known as convicts.
American involvement in Vietnam started with military advisors. The soldiers didn't come until later.it was a habbit of us to interfere in others affairs.
Military prisoners
There were no American deaths in Vietnam during the administration of Harry Truman. The first deaths occurred in 1959 under Eisenhower.
First ground troops were sent to Vietnam in 1965.
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.
Conventional forces in large numbers began arriving in country in '65.