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The Vietnam War draft were two lotteries conducted by the Selective Service System of the United States on December 1, 1969, to determine the order of conscription to military service in the Vietnam War in 1970. It was the first time a lottery system had been used to select men for military service in the US since 1942, and established the ...
Transfer of equipment and bases from U.S. to South Vietnam: Dec 18 – 29: Operation Linebacker II [3] U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 strategic bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, and mining of Haiphong harbor to force North Vietnam to return to the Paris Peace Talks: Hanoi and Haiphong: 1612
February 2 – The last draft lottery is held, a watershed event in the wind-down of military conscription in the United States during the Vietnam era. These draft candidates are never called to duty. February 4 – Mariner 9 sends pictures from Mars. February 5 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall ...
1 January. U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam numbered 156,800 while Free World Military Forces (largely Republic of Korea Army) numbered 53,900. [4]: 387 The South Vietnamese government announced that there had been 20 breaches of the New Year's ceasefire resulting in nine South Vietnamese and 16 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)/Vietcong VC killed.
April 20, 1972 - Nixon announces plans to reduce U.S. troops in South Vietnam to 49,000 by July 1, 1972. August 29, 1972 - Nixon announces the further withdrawal of U.S. troops in South Vietnam to only 27,000 by December 1, 1972. November 7, 1972 - Nixon wins re-election. January 22, 1973 - Johnson dies.
With the end of active U.S. ground participation in Vietnam, December 1972 saw the last men conscripted, who were born in 1952 and earlier. [85] On February 2, 1972, a drawing was held to determine draft priority numbers for men born in 1953, but in January 1973, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that no further draft orders would be ...
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Selective Service System (draft-lottery) bill is signed. December 1. The Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries; December 7. The 5th Dimension performs their song "Declaration" on the Ed Sullivan Show, including the opening of the Declaration of Independence. "For their future security", it suggests that the right ...