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The China Beach Surf Club was an unofficial U.S. Military association founded in 1967 in Da Nang, Vietnam and grew into a major cultural and therapeutic outlet for young G.I.s to surf during R&R (military) back from the front lines of the Vietnam War. The beach was referred to as China Beach, but technically was My Khe and marked the first time ...
Operation Sunset Beach was an operation conducted by the 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division in Hậu Nghĩa Province, southeastern Tây Ninh Province and southwestern Bình Dương Province, lasting from 2 September to 11 October 1966.
In 2014, as the incident's 50th anniversary approached, John White wrote The Gulf of Tonkin Events—Fifty Years Later: A Footnote to the History of the Vietnam War. In the foreword, he notes "Among the many books written on the Vietnamese war, half a dozen note a 1967 letter to the editor of a Connecticut newspaper which was instrumental in ...
English: Map of the beginning of the Vietnam War 1957 to 1960. Français : Carte du début de la Guerre du Viêt Nam de 1957 à 1960. Date: 3 January 2021: Source:
Unbeknownst to the Marine, an eagle-eyed Army paratrooper from the Bronx had scooped up the detailed lighter while enjoying a day at Jones Beach in the late 1960s. A map of Vietnam was etched on ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 09:12, 10 January 2017: 543 × 771 (5.91 MB): Rowanwindwhistler: Updated from German map. Fake text added. 05:18, 29 March 2016
US and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces conducted frequent operations against PAVN and VC forces in the woods including Operation Mastiff (21–25 February 1966), Operation Wahiawa (16–30 May 1966), Operation Sunset Beach (2 September-11 October 1966), Operation Manhattan (23 April-7 June 1967), however none of these operations ...
The March on the Pentagon, 21 October 1967, an anti-war demonstration organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. During the course of the war a large segment of Americans became opposed to U.S. involvement. In January 1967, only 32% of Americans thought the US had made a mistake in sending troops. [222]