SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...
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March 8, first U.S. combat troops arrive in VietnamOn March 8, 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the ...
In 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. It was the first deployment of a large U.S. ground combat ...
Escalation President Johnson slowly increased the number of American troops on the ground in Vietnam. In 1965, two battalions of US Marines were deployed to protect military bases at Da Nang.
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