I respectfully suggest a correction to your statement that in the late sixties the United Stqtes « … only had ‘advisors’ in Vietnam.” My turn in the barrel occurred in 1968-69. I can attest to Vietnam’s being a “hot war” during my tour.
History records that America’s involvement in Vietnam was elevated to “Hot War” following and predicate…
I respectfully suggest a correction to your statement that in the late sixties the United Stqtes « … only had ‘advisors’ in Vietnam.” My turn in the barrel occurred in 1968-69. I can attest to Vietnam’s being a “hot war” during my tour.
History records that America’s involvement in Vietnam was elevated to “Hot War” following and predicated on North Vietnam’s alleged attacks on two U.S. Navy warships—the destroyers USS Turner Joy and USS Mattox—on the high seas of the Gulf of Tonkin on 2 August 1964.
I respectfully suggest a correction to your statement that in the late sixties the United Stqtes « … only had ‘advisors’ in Vietnam.” My turn in the barrel occurred in 1968-69. I can attest to Vietnam’s being a “hot war” during my tour.
History records that America’s involvement in Vietnam was elevated to “Hot War” following and predicated on North Vietnam’s alleged attacks on two U.S. Navy warships—the destroyers USS Turner Joy and USS Mattox—on the high seas of the Gulf of Tonkin on 2 August 1964.
FWIW
Accepted. I enlisted in early ‘67, and was probably thinking of that and wrote hastily.