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The United States Army, Vietnam (USARV) was a Corps-level support command of the United States Army during the Vietnam War.
The U.S. military presence in Vietnam peaked in April 1969, with 543,000 military personnel stationed in the country. [1] By the end of the U.S. involvement, more than 3.1 million Americans had been stationed in Vietnam, [2] [3] and 58,279 had been killed. [4]
By Presidential proclamation, the Vietnam War Commemoration will continue through Veterans Day, November 11, 2025. Our nation will commemorate this 50th anniversary over a 13-year period.
The object of American military assistance was to counter the threat to the government of the Republic of Vietnam posed by the insurgency of an estimated 30,000 regular communist Viet Cong and...
The following is a list of units of the United States Army during the Vietnam War.
Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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In early 1966, the head of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), General William C. Westmoreland, controlled some 185,000 U.S. troops in South Vietnam.
Textual Records Relating to the Vietnam War. Textual documents relating to the Vietnam conflict are spread across several record groups (RGs). U.S. Army. The most heavily used record group is: RG 472 United States Forces in Southeast Asia, 1950-1975; Additional records relating to the U.S. Army in Vietnam may be found in:
At precisely 10:30 on a sunny morning in late November, the first squads of Vietnamese Army troops scrambled from US Marine helicopters to launch a complex, two landing zone, vertical assault against communist Viet Cong southwest of Da Nang.