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Aid to Diem is increased heavily by the US and advisors are sent to help train south troops
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The Vietcong is established in Loc ninh, the insurgency would grown rapidly in the final months of 1964. Estimates of its numbers at this point ranged from 80,000 to 100,000. The South Vietnamese military, while expanding and improving due to American aid, was unable to respond to Viet Cong attacks.
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The number of US military advisors jumps to over 12000 and the north gets paranoid
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Diem and his brother are assassinated during a coup by generals of the south vietnamese army
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US ship is attacked by 3 torpedo boats and days later another attack was sent but was later to be revealed it was eager sailors and human error
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US commences rolling thunder and sends 200000 troops
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Operation rolling thunder is commenced dropping bombs on North Vietnamese locations like bridges and structures
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In the Ia Drang Valley, American troops fight their first large scale battles against the North Vietnamese Army.