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The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam War with America spending US$77.4 billion (US$ 678 billion in 2025) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 ARVN soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand PAVN/VC killed.
HELICOPTER Operations in VIETNAM; Special Operations in Vietnam; Information About Records Relating to the Vietnam War Operations Analysis (OPSANAL) System; Naval Operations in Vietnam; Media. The short film ACTIVITIES OF THE 198TH INFANTRY BRIGADE, AMERICAL DIVISION (1968) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
The first U.S. prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam on February 11, and all U.S. military personnel were to leave South Vietnam by March 29. As an inducement for Thieu's government to sign the agreement, Nixon had promised that the U.S. would provide financial and limited military support (in the form of air strikes) so that the ...
The Vietnam War (1955-1975) confronted the US Army with a variety of challenges, both in the military context and at home. In the dense jungles of Vietnam, soldiers faced an invisible enemy using guerrilla tactics, while the difficult terrain, tropical diseases and the constant threat of ambushes strained the morale and effectiveness of the troops.
Edwin E. Moïse (1996), Tonkin Gulf and the escalation of the Vietnam War, 304 pages Lewis Sorley (2007), A Better War, 528 pages Institute Of Medicine, Institute of Medicine (U.S.), National Academies Press (U.S.) (2007), Veterans and agent orange, 871 pages
Pages in category "Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1968" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
March 21 – Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus, and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U.S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shouting cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!"
The United States had been fighting in Vietnam for over two and a half years [citation needed], 20,000 Americans had been killed and despite the presence of nearly 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam, the Viet Cong had managed to penetrate the US Embassy. [7] On 4 November 1968, Ambassador Bunker presented a scroll of appreciation to Lieutenant ...