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Vietnamese forces invade French command post.
French commander orders his troops to cease fire. The battle had lasted 55 days. -
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Veitnam War
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JFK Commands Troops
President John F. Kennedy orders more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war against the Vietcong guerrillas. -
Hamlet of Apc Bac
The Vietcong 514th Battalion and local guerrilla forces ambush the South Vietnamese Army's 7th division. -
American air power in Southeast Asia is reinforced.
Two aircraft carriers arrive off the Vietnamese coast prompted by a North Vietnamese offensive in Laos. -
Richard Nixon Takes Office.
With regard to Vietnam, he promises to achieve "Peace With Honor." His aim is to negotiate a settlement that will allow the half million U.S. troops in Vietnam to be withdrawn -
Only 133,000 U.S. servicemen are in south Vietnam.
The ground war is now almost exclusively the responsibility of South Vietnam, which has over 1,000,000 men enlisted in its armed forces. -
Few American soldiers remain in Vietnam.
The last American combat soldiers leave South Vietnam, though military advisors and Marines, who are protecting U.S. installations, remain -
Ending of war
At 4:03 a.m., two U.S. Marines are killed in a rocket attack at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. They are the last Americans to die in the Vietnam War. In 15 years, nearly a million NVA and Vietcong troops and a quarter of a million South Vietnamese soldiers have died.
