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U.S. troop numbers peaked in 1968 with President Johnson approving an increased maximum number of U.S. troops in Vietnam at 549,500. 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.
October 15, 1969 - Hundreds of thousands of people attend mass protests across the United States for the United States to withdraw from the Vietnam War. November 15, 1969 - A second, larger protest takes place in Washington D.C., with an estimated 500,000 people. December 1, 1969 - The first draft lottery since 1942 is held.
The maximum number of WACs deployed in Vietnam was reached in January 1970: 20 officers and 139 enlisted women. In 1972, the withdrawal of all US troops from Vietnam began. After six years, the WAC Detachment, USARV, was disbanded in September 1972 and most of the women returned to the US, where they were reassigned.
The number of US military personnel in Vietnam jumped from 23,300 in 1965 to 465,600 by the end of 1967. Between October 1966 and June 1969, 246,000 soldiers were recruited through Project 100,000, of whom 41% were black; black people only made up about 11% of the population of the US. [ 102 ]
South Vietnam 897,000 United States: 549,500 South Korea: 48,870 Thailand : 11,570 ... The number of American military personnel in Vietnam peaked at 543,000. [25 ...
The number of soldiers in South Vietnam was 16,752 in October and on December 31, was 15,894. [ 12 ] Many historians, Kennedy acolytes, and celebrities, such as movie director Oliver Stone , have claimed that the withdrawal of 1,000 U.S. soldiers from Vietnam was the beginning of Kennedy's plan to withdraw completely from South Vietnam after he ...
In 1971, Australia and New Zealand withdrew their soldiers and US troops were further reduced to 196,700, with a deadline to remove another 45,000 troops by February 1972. The US reduced support troops, and in March 1971 the 5th Special Forces Group, the first American unit deployed to South Vietnam, withdrew. [199]: 240 [A 10]
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.