United States Marine Corps in Vietnam

A pictorial history “jam packed full of excellent visual and textual history of US Marine Corps operations in the Vietnam War” ( AMPS ). With the American-supported South Vietnamese government verging on collapse in early 1965, President Lyndon Johnson decided to commit conventional ground forces in the form of a United States Marine Corps brigade of approximately 3,000 men on March 8, 1965. So began a massive and costly ten-year commitment. At its height in 1968, the USMC had 86,000 men in Sout