Posted on Jun 26, 2015
50 years ago today, June 26, in sunny Vietnam-land - Where were you?
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Hanoi Radio announces that the Vietcong now have ‘death lists,’ headed by the names of Ambassador Taylor, his deputy Alexis Johnson, Premier Ky, and General Thieu.
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Gen. William Westmoreland, senior U.S. military commander in Vietnam, is given formal authority to commit American troops to battle when he decides they are necessary “to strengthen the relative position of the GVN [Government of Vietnam] forces.”
This authorization permitted Westmoreland to put his forces on the offensive.
Heretofore, U.S. combat forces had been restricted to protecting U.S. airbases and other facilities.
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Gen. William Westmoreland, senior U.S. military commander in Vietnam, is given formal authority to commit American troops to battle when he decides they are necessary “to strengthen the relative position of the GVN [Government of Vietnam] forces.”
This authorization permitted Westmoreland to put his forces on the offensive.
Heretofore, U.S. combat forces had been restricted to protecting U.S. airbases and other facilities.
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Ten yrs. old, hiking in the Woods and Hills by Elkton,Ore. My brother, D.Smoley was aboard the U.S.S.Midway off the coast of Viet Nam. He had some stories to tell the Family upon his return. My Dad was in the Navy as a Demolition Diver and later as a Navy Corpsman. Latter part of WW2 and Korean War. Much History in our Family!
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S., On June 26, 1965, I was 8 years old and most likely playing stick-ball in the streets in a suburb of Philadelphia on a hot muggy day. I had started to become interested in the military by that year but it would be another 10 years before I enlisted.
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