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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Feb 9, 1965: U.S. sends first combat troops to South Vietnam |
| 2005-02-09 |
| A U.S. Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion is deployed to Da Nang. President Johnson had ordered this deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase there. This was the first commitment of American combat troops in South Vietnam and there was considerable reaction around the world to the new stage of U.S. involvement in the war. Predictably, both communist China and the Soviet Union threatened to intervene if the United States continued to apply its military might on behalf of the South Vietnamese. In Moscow, some 2,000 demonstrators, led by Vietnamese and Chinese students and clearly supported by the authorities, attacked the U.S. Embassy. Britain and Australia supported the U.S. action, but France called for negotiations. Somethings seems to never change! |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #2 A la "Groundhog Day" movie, mebbe they'll do it right this time. Initial overwhelming force, and none of that "incremental" nonsense! Helio-assault on Hanoi with special forces ops capturing the communication, banking, and other infrasturcture links... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2005-02-09 6:58:46 PM |
| #1 Feb 10, 1965: Ted Kennedy stumbles into Congress, issues an incoherent bleat about "emporial hubrish", and drops face-first into a pool of his own vomit. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-02-09 4:51:35 PM |