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Following the partition of Vietnam in 1954 at the end of the First Indochina War, more than one million North Vietnamese migrated to South Vietnam, [38] under the U.S.-led evacuation campaign named Operation Passage to Freedom, [39] with an estimated 60% of the north's one million Catholics fleeing south.
This is a list of the mammal species of Vietnam. ... The elephants comprise three living species and are the largest living land animals.
A map of South Vietnam showing provincial boundaries and names and military zones: I, II, III, and IV Corps. In 1965, the United States rapidly increased its military forces in South Vietnam, prompted by the realization that the South Vietnamese government was losing the Vietnam War as the communist-dominated Viet Cong (VC) gained influence over much of the population in rural areas of the ...
Faunal species noted are accounted as 11,217 species of animals, in Vietnam's hot and humid climate. These are broadly: Indian elephants , bears ( black bear and honey bear ), Indochinese tigers and Indochinese leopards as well as smaller animals like pygmy lorises, [ 21 ] monkeys (such as snub-nosed monkey), bats, flying squirrels , turtles ...
1965 in North Vietnam (1 P) S. 1965 in South Vietnam (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "1965 in Vietnam" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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In 1965, US President Lyndon Johnson sent troops to South Vietnam to secure the country and started to bomb North Vietnam, assuming that if South Vietnam fell to the Communists, other countries in the Southeast Asia would follow, in accordance with the domino theory. Other US allies, such as Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, the ...
North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin: His A-1H #135375 suffered engine failure while returning from a ground attack mission and he ditched at sea but did not exit the aircraft. [49] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] March 29: Hume, Kenneth E: Lieutenant commander: US Navy: VF-154, USS Coral Sea: North Vietnam, Bach Long Vi