United States Marine Corps in Vietnam
United States Marine Corps in Vietnam With the American-supported South Vietnamese government verging on collapse in early 1965, American President Lyndon Johnson decided to commit American…
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United States Marine Corps in Vietnam
With the American-supported South Vietnamese government verging on collapse in early 1965, American President Lyndon Johnson decided to commit American conventional ground forces in the form of a United States Marine Corps (USMC) brigade of approximately 3,000 men on March 8, 1965. At its height in 1968, the USMC had 86,000 men in South Vietnam. So began a massive and costly 10-year commitment.
In the end, the fighting during such well-known battles at Con Tien, Chu Lai, Hue, Khe Sanh and Dong Ha and thousands of now forgotten smaller-scale engagements would cost the USMC 13,070 killed in action and 88,630 wounded, more casualties than they suffered during the Second World War. Almost 500,000 Marines would eventually rotate in out of South Vietnam during their typical one-year tours of duty. In this book, well-known military historian Michael Green using hundreds of dramatic images