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1954–1956 — 450,000 Vietnamese civilians flee the Viet Minh administration in North Vietnam and relocate in South Vietnam as part of the US government's Operation Passage to Freedom. Approximately 52,000 move in the opposite direction. Dr. Thomas Dooley writes his memoir about the refugees Deliver Us from Evil.
For the remainder of 1960 and extending into 1961, Laos eclipsed Vietnam in the interest of the superpowers and the media. [7] 23 August. The U.S. government compiled a National Intelligence Estimate stating that support for the VC was increasing and that supplies and combatants were moving to them from North Vietnam overland and by sea. The ...
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The group's immediate decision was to form a Vietnam Archive and begin collecting and preserving materials relating to the American Vietnam experience. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] On December 2, 1989, the Texas Tech University Board of Regents approved the creation of the Center for the Study of the Vietnam Conflict. [ 18 ]
He was a Vietnam veteran and battled complications from exposure to Agent Orange for many years. Charlie was part of the original team of veterans who helped bring the Honor Flight to Lubbock.
The Vietnam War was a massive undertaking for all involved: North Vietnam and the Viet Cong had around 690,000 soldiers by 1966, South Vietnam had a strength of 1.5 million soldiers by 1972, and the U.S. deployed a total of 2.7 million soldiers over the course of American involvement, peaking at 543,000 in April 1969.
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In 2020, Jim Knotts, current president and CEO of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, a nonprofit devoted to honoring Vietnam veterans, contacted Mark Lawrence, who served until quite recently as ...